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nelsoni females, when really really full of eggs (or any species), will eat right before laying even , when they clutch is huge for her....mine laid 10 huge eggs...last 2 years was 6 each.....she ate a small mouse I accidentally fed her like 4 days before laying.....I thought she would drop, then, realized she had weeks to go...huge...

MOLD ....DOES kill eggs and babies....Lake Perry red milk...6 eggs...2 duds, 1 had bad spot...it died right away and got moldy...the three remaining eggs lived, but the 2 touching the moldy egg didn't grow like the third one,,,the first baby out was small and had a FULL belly ....died in a day and half...the other egg touching moldy egg died IN egg, and was small...real small....one baby is cool....the 2 babies of touching mold eggs...were PIN banded looking also...thin bands on red....

pyro eggs can crack....lik chicken eggs?...not sure if it is just me...but ...after the mold issue...I tried to get a moldy agg from a clutch of pyro ,,,and a good egg attatched cracked...loudly too....just like a bird egg...I quit right away...too late...?...we'll see....are pyro eggs different???...usually eggs will move and give a little...I have pulled alot of eggs apart and never had one crack like it was dry...???

good luck all.......
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........JY

"MOLD ....DOES kill eggs and babies"

Although I am very open to being wrong, I respectfully disagree.

I have seen many babies hatching from eggs covered in mold. One clutch I saw an entire batch of desert kings hatching from eggs so covered in mold, it actually looked like the green golf turf I would see playing minature golf somewhere..haha!!

One of my mentors, who bred thousands and thousands of colubrids, his motto was " a good egg is a good egg is a good egg."

Anyways, just my two cents!
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Genesis 1:1

I hatched tousands of eggs...and have seen eggs die and or babies die, or small, and or weak....from moldy eggs beside the good eggs....it was a point...a true point....seen it yesterday, and today....it happens....

have I hatched eggs from moldy clutches?...yes....are they all perfect...no...but some are fine...some are crappy.......

Thanxx....Good luck and have fun.......

....moldy eggs get taken out from now on......(if I remember or care ?)......rather be safe? or prove me correct again???

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........JY

I don't believe AZ eggs are any different...if the egg cracked, it was probably just a little on the dry side than "normal". I prefer a little dry over a little wet…wet can cause more issues in my opinion.

I typically do not remove bad eggs by pulling them apart...I will use scissors and cut away the bad egg, leaving the "scab" of bad egg still attached to the good one.

Like this:

For the cracked egg...it might be ok...as long as it's not leaking. If it is leaking, you might want to use a band-aid, just the sticky part, to keep the egg from leaking...just a wild idea.

Good luck!

-Rusty

cool thanxx....I know all that except I never had pyro eggs before....go figure...tried...this is first batch...and yes it leaked....don't smell it yet so I just left it all be and buried the cracked part .....I cut...but usually you can remove alot of junk eggs by rolling them off...and if not you can tell right away it isn't going to work...this one just cracked right away...suxx....

good luck....
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........JY

Mold kills eggs?
Blue / green mold within a day or two of being deposited is always fatal in my experience, bad egg. Wet, slimy, and then comes the blue green mold.
I have had lots of good eggs hatch that were in contact with a bad egg. I've even had fungus develop from the vermiculite. Resolved by getting a fresh batch, making up new containers and transferring the eggs.
Gold Bond works great at stopping mold from spreading, even on a bad egg.
Saved this hatchling by using it. Hatched out fine and survived, no issues.