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Hey guys looks like my eggs are still holding up.

If you remember I kinda cooked one of the eggs because it was to close to the heat source in the incubator. It dented in on its top because it was just to close the heating coil in the hovabator.

Today is day 37 in incubation at 89 degrees. I can't help but worry about this one egg.

It never recovered from the baking it received. The dent was staying the same for a long time, but within the last day or 2 it seems to be getting a little worse.

The egg is still nice and beautiful white but you cannot miss the top of it that looks kinda cooked.

The other eggs are showing no signs of denting which makes me wonder more if this egg will make it.

If this egg was dried out a bit and dented a bit when it went in the incubator would it be safe to say it may start denting more even sooner before the other eggs do?

Thanx for reading.

Ahh this wait is killing me...

Just leave the eggs alone. If it hatches it hatches, if it doesnt it doesnt. Wont be the end of the world and there is always next year. You learn by trial and error, maybe youll find out that a little burn doesnt harm the egg or maybe it does.
Your building up experience by trial and error but in my experience the more you mess with them the worse luck you have, I just set them up, and leave them alone for 60 days or so and all of a sudden baby balls crawling around, weird isnt it? lol..
I only make sure I see water drops on the clear lids of the tupperware and I know they will be fine.
Mike
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I would just use a mini flashlight/penlight to candle the egg. You should be able to do this without disturbing the egg in any way. If the egg is still good, then you will be able to see some good blood vessels attached to the shell. You may have to move the light around the egg. Of course, it doesn't hurt to continue to incubate the egg, either way. But, this might give you some information.

I had a few that had a similar problem and about half of them hatched, although they were a little smaller than their siblings.

Good Luck!

I may have incubated them a little on the dry side, but still got 100% hatch of 6 eggs...80 gram perfect babies. Hang in there!
Paul

Your eggs are going to start collapsing soon. Some eggs start collapsing in around 35 days, however, most start in around day 42. The hatchlings start absorbing their yokes at this time and all of the liquid starts to get ingested by the snake. Also, the eggs start respiring at this time as well so you will notice an increase in humidity around the eggs......and thus they start collapsing (as they are losing mosture from inside the egg). This is normal and nothing to worry about. I cut all my eggs at day 52 and most hatchlings for me are out of the egg on day 53-56. You should be able to pull the eggs apart from one another on day 50 (sometimes sooner but day 50 is a good day to do it on).

Good Luck,
Corey