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WHAT came out of those moldy icky eggs????
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~Sasheena

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I couldn't handle it either~ so after waiting over a full day from when I first saw teh drops of clear liquid, I went ahead and very carefully disected the eggs with the fluid. (

I have no clue where the clear fluid came from. I wasn't imagining it~ I got a good pic of it and even posted it here. But what was in those eggs was just yellow, vicous, goowey, glops of gross~ Yuck!

I threw them out. That will teach me to try being an optimist~ I pried off all of the eggs that looked bad and now there are 4 eggs left that I am hoping will hatch. Today is day 60, at temps of about 81-82F. We'll see.

Oh~ and I'll never use pearlite or the male that fathered those three clutches again.

Today is day 60~
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Cheryl Marchek
AKA JM
Check out my website at:
The Red Dragons Den

Ive never had any luck with perlite either. Never tried it with corn eggs but lost 55 chameleon eggs and maybe a dozen leo eggs. Im sure it wasnt totally the perlites fault but still. Im using moss now for my corn eggs and after 3 weeks they still look good. Hopefully it will stay that way.

EP
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Occupants not paying rent:
16 eggs incubating
7 balls
2.2 corns(candy cane, creamsicle, ghost, normal)
1 pueblan milk
1 everglades rat
1 cal. king
1 gray band king
1 w. hognose
1 bearded dragon
2 fish
1 rat
1 mouse
5 cats

I used moss last year (and a different male) and the eggs did okay~ other than gnats~ which is why I wanted to switch~ but after this I think I will go back to the moss and just get some sticky paper for the gnats.

The 4th clutch this year is from the same female that threw the first clutch~ but by a different male. That clutch is 10 days old now and is in moss~ and looks great still.
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Cheryl Marchek
AKA JM
Check out my website at:
The Red Dragons Den

Thanks for the update. It was worth a try, yes? I have a whole clutch of eggs gone bad, and keep trying to decide if I should open one or some to see what is inside, or if I should wait until they are supposed to be full term before risking it. Last I looked there weren't any that had any look of possibility of being alive. BUT you never know!
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~Sasheena