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i have a pair of wc quads that mated. I hade about 9 eggs. when i found them a couple months ago, they had been there for a little while an dsome of them burst holes in them from being too wet! when i gathered them all up I had 5 good ones....not too long later 2 went bad.
now at 3 eggs left one started to grow fuzzy white...I tossed it befor it got to the others...a few days later (today) another started to grow fuzzy white and deflate. I have one good one left. Are they bad when they grow fuzzy white. what makes them collaps?
temp range is 66-79
and humidity 98%
baby is developed. I figure about 4 more weeks.
what is going on why all of the sudden they do this? and what can i do differently?

Thanks in advance,
MIKEY

I have never bred quads...but I have kept quad males and hatched other chameleon eggs...so I'm not going to be of much help.

You said..." they had been there a little while an dsome of them burst holes in them from being too wet"...where were they that they were so wet?

You said..."one started to grow fuzzy white...I tossed it befor it got to the others"...normally good eggs won't mold and the mold from a bad egg won't spread to other good eggs in an incubator. I'm not sure if eggs that are incubated in at cool temperatures will/can mold or not. The eggs I have hatched need to be incubated at higher than room temperature. I never toss an egg unless I'm positive its dead...I might move it to another container though.

You said..."another started to grow fuzzy white and deflate"...eggs normally only dent/dimple if they are dying or too dry. They shrink/deflate when they are close to hatching, but they don't dimple/dent.

You said..."baby is developed"...how do you know? (Just curious.)

You said..."what is going on why all of the sudden they do this?"...I can't give you a good answer for this. With the eggs of some species its thought that they take on too much water and the babies suffocate for some reason...but there is no proof that I know of. Others say this is not the case...that it has to do with the health of the female. I wish I knew what did it for sure.

Sorry that I couldn't be of more help.