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My eggs have been incubating for a week now, and when we checked on them, we found mold on one and a color change on another.

Does this mean they're bad? I've included a photo. They are the bottom two at the right-they are in the massive clump right above the little loner egg!

Please let me know what you think and if I should try to remove the two eggs.

Thanks!

>>My eggs have been incubating for a week now, and when we checked on them, we found mold on one and a color change on another.
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>>Does this mean they're bad? I've included a photo. They are the bottom two at the right-they are in the massive clump right above the little loner egg!
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>>Please let me know what you think and if I should try to remove the two eggs.
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>>Thanks!
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just leave them
if they are bad, it's ok, they won't harm the eggs next to them
You could do more damage trying to remove them.
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Draybar is right. Just leave them and if for some reason the mold starts to get out of hand you can clean off the mold with a Q-tip every couple days to keep it from overspreading on the othe eggs. Or what I like to do is take some of that Vermiculite and cover the eggs if you are sure they are not good. This tends to supress the mold. You can use a pen light or a very small mag light and place the light on the egg and turn off the lights. If you see veins in the egg it's probably good. If the egg lights up like a bulb and looks empty it's infertile.
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They are definitely fertile. We used a flashlight and there are veins.

The mold seems to be getting worse, but we just keep cleaning it off with a q-tip. Is there anything we could use to keep it from coming back/spreading? It's a white/black mold.

Thanks.