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Still watching the rest of the eggs get more and more dented and waiting for them to hatch. If this one hasn't hatched by the weekend I'll try to get an updated shot, as it has sunken in even more since this was taken.

That's a beauty !!!

thanks, Johan. They don't stay that cute for long, unfortunately!

I have found it useful to place a moist paper towel of eggs like the one you pictured. They often hatch right off.

Wet a paper towel, ring it out. How much you ring it out depends on how dry the egg is. Please, only apply this to heavily dented eggs.

Heres why, If you feel the egg shell, often it will feel thicher and harder then a full or nearly full eggs. I believe, the shells are a little harder(dehydrated) with these eggs. Once the paper towel is placed over them, it softens the shell and they hatch.

For others reading this, it does not make an egg hatch sooner then it is ready to. It only allows an egg thats ready to hatch, hatch.

Recently, I have applied this to other types of reptile eggs and it appears to help greatly. Or at least its fun. Its very possible the eggs would hatch anyway.

This event, may possibly be very normal and the eggs respond to rains in nature, I do not know. But I do know, that if you wait to long, the possibility for the neonates to die in the egg is there, or the possibliliy of hatching very weak neonates is high. Keep up the good work and good luck. FR

...I was just feeling the texture of the egg last night and wondering if it was getting a bit dry and stiff, especially on the folds (the egg is much more dented than in that photo). I was even contemplating the risks involved in swapping its position with one of the others in the same egg box that are closer to the sides, exposed to more moisture (due to condensation on the sides of the egg box) and therefore fuller.

I'll try the paper towel thing when I get home tonight.