My female laid 7 eggs on wed. and I thought I had another couple weeks but apparently I missed the REAL ovulation so I didn't have any hatching medium. I ended up using some eco-earth coco fiber for the night, well I got some perlite/vermiculite last night and put them in that instead. I candled them on wed. night and they all had veins so they're fertile. The eggs aren't collapsing, they're actually starting to get fuller and they're not as "squishy" I guess you would say. This is what I'm worried about though, it's on the bottoms of the eggs, is it normal for them to be like that? If not then what should I do?
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Need help with my first clutch
exitree
Jul 10, 2009 03:16 PM
Replies (5)
mikebell
Jul 10, 2009 03:35 PM
That looks terrible. It also looks way too wet.
jayefbe
Jul 10, 2009 03:59 PM
They were way too wet. They feel fuller because they took up a bunch of water from the medium. Plus they appear to be molding which could cause a lot of problems.
pitoon
Jul 10, 2009 04:23 PM
that egg is bloated..........to much water.
i used eco earth once on a clutch for more than half way on a maternal incubation (it was an experiment, but i chickened out). the eggs that were touching the eco earth that was to wet got discolored. ever egg hatched out fine.
nothing to worry about until it starts to mold over and stink.
Pitoon
mykee
Jul 10, 2009 06:18 PM
You've got a few issues you need to deal with:
The substrate you are using is way too wet. Get your eggs out of that substrate and evalate them on something so that they are not touching the medium.
2. Mold on eggs in any capacity means it is usually too late to save them. It will just continue until the entire egg is covered and anything that may have been alive no longer is. Maybe you caught it soon enough, only time and vigilance will tell.
Good luck.
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exitree
Jul 10, 2009 07:09 PM
Thanks for the replies. The eggs were only in the eco-earth overnight and I mixed the vermiculite and perlite so that I could I squeeze it and no water came out but it does clump. I put a few layers of vinyl mesh between the eggs and the substrate, hopefully that'll help. Any other suggestions you guys have that may help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
