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Hey peeps.
Alright so this egg was about 1 month overdue, I waited and waited, and nothing hatched..
I opened it up this morning, and it hadn't even finished forming. It was still in the embreyo and all. When I touched it, it kinda moved as if it were aliev. I'm guessing it was. Sad... 
But hey, that's mother nature. So I figured I would share this with everybody 
You shouldn't have opened it and it probably would have been fine. How did you calculate it was a month overdue? At 80 degrees they can go over 70 days and hatch normally.
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Sarah H
How many days did it incubate for?
Looks like it was forming up fine to me..
Why did you cut the egg??? That leo would have developed just fine had you left it alone... Could have been a perfect little hatchling if you could have waited a week or so...
A month over due??? I dont think so... Under developed egg??? No way!!!
Looks like another case of an over anxious,"breeder"...
haha wow people..
ive bred in the past before, with successful and unsuccessful egg hatches..
this was my first egg of the season.. couldnt say when it hatched.. it also went through some temp fluctuations in the beginning week or two. Went down in the 60s and up also. I live in Montreal, canada. We've had about 2-3 power failures this year. One of which lasted about 3 days.
temp in the incubator was less than my room.
it was laid in septemberish
it was well over 70 days.
more towards the 80-90 mark.
I hope like you didn't feel like you were getting flogged over this, I just think people didn't think you gave the baby enough of a chance. I did the same thing years ago with a chameleon egg. I think all eggs that appear good should be given every chance in the world even if they go over twice the time, and in your case the extreme temp changes might just have delayed the developement, but not completely ruled out that it would have ever hatched. We all should take note and wait until a egg completely shrivels up before we give up on it and possibly open it up to do analysis.
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