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Okay.. this is the scenario... Its my breeding females first season of laying... I've gotten 4 hatchlings from her eggs out of her 2nd and 3rd clutch...her 4th and 5th clutch were infertile...they all collapsed and grew mold within 2 or 3 weeks. Her 6th clutch was incubating fine... until we had a major temperature spike here and the incubator overheated on me since we don't have really good air conditioning.. The eggs had maybe 3 hours of temps at 90 . After that I took them to a cooler part of the house where the temps would stay steady...well one of the eggs, which were fertile to begin with, died..it got all smelly and nasty and everything. Now I have this second one from that clutch...which has done something wierd... Its not molding...it just seems really slimy on the outside of it and way too soft from what I know of my 1st two clutches to hatch. But.. 3 days ago I could detect some movement within the egg... It doesn't smell bad...it just feels like one of those soft plastic toys with the liquid inside of them that slip and slide every which way... So I'm not sure if its going to remain good or not....None of my other eggs did this..and I've got 2 new ones that are developing quite nicely....Opinions on this?

from what I've read on www.leopardgecko.com Ron Tremper has incubated male eggs at 90 degrees with very good outcome producing very bright albino leos

Well it was over 90 but I'm not sure for how long that lasted... I moved them when I checked it but I did end up losing that one egg so I'd almost say the rapid temp flux affected it... this other one I'm just not sure about....I'm continueing to incubate it...its been incubating a little less than 60 days at 82 save for that temp spike we had...

I would take the movement as a good thing maybe starting to pip?

Possible...then again..there's been no movement since....ah well.. I suppose I'll keep watching it... My 4 other babies are doing well though.. one 7 inch male at a little under 3 months old.. He's huge...and an unmarked Blizzard to boot with no yellow or grey tinge to him at all.. I'll probably be keeping him for another breeding colony..

I would keep it in their till it gets real bad you never know. I have had eggs go full term and then get slimy like that then collapse and just shrivel up. Never nold at all just kinda get hard like they have silicone in them or something. Good luck with it.
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Even if your on the right track you will get run over if you just sit there
22 leos,1.1 redtail boas,1.1 rainbow boas,1.1 cornsnakes, 1.0 tokay gecko,1.0 veiled cham, 5 dogs and a cat. Oh, can't forget Tater my parrolet.

Eggs get "sweat" drops before they hatch, thi scould be what the "slime" is
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~Julie~