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Ok-- I have 4 eggs.
I have no idea when they were laid or when they will hatch.
Could have been laid between the 9th and 19th of june (clean cages every 10 days. Cleaned on the 9th- no eggs--- cleaned on 19th --found eggs)

there are 4. The first pic is of when they were first found.
Other pics are from a few minutes ago.

The bottom egg is a different color than the others- but only changed to that color last week. It is a dark grey and now has a nasty yellow spot on it that looks... wet almost.
The bottom half of one of the other eggs is the same color grey.

I can't get a light down to the bottom egg to candle it but I did candle it when I put them in the box- it had veins then. The other eggs have veins still.

The box freaking rieks- I can clear the room out when i open the box to check the humidity and such. Doesn't really smell like rotton egg or dead reptile-- it just... stinks.

Pics:
Day I found them:

Today: You can sort of see the half colored egg on the far left side-- one that points kind of vertical instead of laying flat. Bottom is grey-- the other bad colored egg is on bottom-- you can see the wierd yellow spot.

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If it stinks it's dead.

Had one fool me this season -- it was a little stinky but candled good so I decided to try to incubate it -- looked good for about a week then over night the veins died off and the mold came -- so I tossed it.
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Tosha
JET Pythons
Toshas Blog

Herp Medicine does not equal a bottle of Baytril - Dr. Scott Stahl

dead

it is making others wet OR ....the substrate is making the ones on bottom wet...

wet eggs die....

the bottom left is wet and bottom right is wet at least from dead egg....

too wet....

you may lose 3........check the substrate first.....

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JY
Scales-N-Tails
reptiles ltd.

Just checked substrate- it is not touching the eggs.

What do i do with the dead one? what about the bottom left that is 1/2 wet/dead?

There are definately still veins in the 1/2 wet one on bottom left.

(definately veins in top and bottom right as well)

How on earth would I remove the one bad on on bottom?-- without tearing the other 3 -- it is very firmly attached on all sides...

They could hatch in anywhere from 2-4 weeks by my calculations (again-no clue when they were laid)

Thanks for your help

~Beth
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You can leave it -- technically mold from the dying egg should not bother the surrounding eggs -- also as it decays it should become easier to pull off -- or if you can't stand the smell you can just cut it away and leave the attached bits where they are. If it's the bottom egg you need to make sure that if you let it mold away that the eggs on top don't get rolled to far out of position as the egg deflates.

Good luck with the rest of them.
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Tosha
JET Pythons
Toshas Blog

Herp Medicine does not equal a bottle of Baytril - Dr. Scott Stahl

Is the wet egg touching the side of the tub or getting dripped on?
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John Vandegrift

Going by the bottom picture,it looks like there a little bit to much water in there...The reason i say this is that the grid appears to have sunk down in the back corner.

Did you by any chance tilt the boxes to allow condensation to fall at one end?..If so then the water may have "re-leveled" out of your viewing perspective inside the incubator.Putting them slightly below water level..?..just kicking around ideas

...and i bet if you grab that top egg with one hand..and the bottom two with the other.Then firmly but gently work it back and forth,that top egg will come loose easily.

good luck
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Charles Glaspie
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yup-- I did tilt it a bit to let the condensation run to the other end- which worked beautifully.... besides letting my eggs getwet!!! grrrr!!!

I was successful at removing the bad egg--- one of the worst things I've done in a looong time-- was interesting to see the giant solid yolk and a tiny tad-pole looking pink would-have-been snake. Kids got a science lesson out of it-- made everyone else sick.

Egg came off good- and I put a faux egg in its place-- folded some card-board up to support the top egg.

While i was fiddling with removing the bottom dead one- the bottom left egg dried up-- lost its "wet" look and is back to being white.

I made a juicy mess in the box while removing the old egg so I started with fresh perlite - slightly drier this time- Before I ended up with standing water at that one end which caused my problem i believe.

soooo---- I'm thinking they'll hatch in about 2 weeks and fingers crossed I get 3 granites

~Beth
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