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This is my first clutch of Pieds from a Poss Het Female x %100 Het Male breeding. They were laid on June 11, making today Day 66. There are 5 eggs, 2 Hets are already out of their eggs and doing well, 2 more Hets are poking their heads out now (one of which is very small with what would have been a twin that never developed in the egg), and the last one is my visual Pied. It's trying to come out of the egg now, and I am quite frankly freaking out, and I almost want to discourage it!

I did lift it up gently to take this photo. I'm sorry I couldn't get a better one, but I didn't dare pull it out further or for longer than it already was... I assume this is yolk that has not been absorbed completely... But it's seems MASSIVE to me and it's abdomen already seems swollen and HUGE.

Not sure what I should be doing. I just want to scare him back into his egg to talk him into developing more completely.

Any help, or direction to someone that has any advice would be mostly appreciated.
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

Leave it alone!

I'm too afraid to hurt it.
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

it will be fine!

If it is wanting to crawl, you can discourage this by putting it in a deli cup. You don't want it to get excited and pull on the yolk. It needs another couple of days.

Do as Mike Bell said. Deli cup with moist paper towel for a few more days. Congrats!
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Best regards,
AlanColesReptiles

I just put my little guy in a deli cup with about 1/8 inch of water in it and put it back in the incubator for a few days. This was what I read in the Barkers book, so thought it was a good starting point. After a few days the the yolk was absorbed, and the umbilicus just dried up and fell off. The little guy is fine now.
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Matt Buchanan

It just needs to be left alone in a very moist box....paper towels quite saturated with warm water. Leave it in the incubator and time will take care of it. It will shrink up and
you won't see anything still there, it will shrink and heal.
Best of luck and post pics when it is better!
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Susan Sentman
SSNAKES Reptiles
susan@ssnakes.com

I am confused.

You said "Poss Het Female x 0 Het Male breeding"

did you mean Poss het female x 100% het male?

Yes, for some reason that's how it turns out on my computer when I type one-hundred percent: %100.
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

I really appreciate it. He was coming out of that egg, so in the deli cup with the egg he is at the moment. I'll post how it turns out.
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

I really appreciate everyone's advice, and thanks to all who took the time to respond. It worked like a charm, and just wanted to post an updated photo of the little guy (it is a boy!) out of the egg.

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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

Congrats! Very nice
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Best regards,
AlanColesReptiles