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I have a retired breeder female who's laid several infertile eggs that I've kept, but have gone bad & have been dissected & found empty. However, one has not gone bad (I honestly don't know how long ago it was laid, I found it when I changed her cage recently & suspect it's over a month old). Today it was leaking both clear & cloudy fluid from 2 seperate spots. It was not doing this yesterday. I figured maybe it's going bad, so I carefully opened it part way & saw a tail! I closed it back up & put it back in the peat moss it was in. It didn't smell or look "bad".
Do you think the baby is pipping & that's why the egg was leaking in 2 places? There seems to be a good amount of yolk stuff still in the egg.
Any help would be appreciated...
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Robins Critters
1.0 Corn snakes Jack Skellington
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
0.1 Albino Sonoran Gopher Snake Jasmine
1.3 Leopard Geckos Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
0.1.1 Crested Geckos Peek & Boo
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo
0.0.2 Eastern Box Turtles Squirtle & Yurtle
0.1 Pacman Frog Buffy the Cricket Slayer
0.0.1 Sulawesi Red Toad Mr. Toad
0.2 Tiger Salamanders Tiger & Sally
1.1.3 Firebelly Newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Olivia Newton John & Thandie Newton
1.1 Cats Gus & Mena

some eggs do sweat when close to hatching and partially collapse. SInce you did see a tail, i would do just what you did, leave the egg be and continue to incubate. The baby should come out on it's own in a few days, so keep an eye on it. If it goes bad, you will know and you can dispose of it appropriately. If not, th en you will have a little baby crested gecko to care for.
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PHLdyPayne

Thanks so much! What a relief! I can actually see the egg moving today, so I know the little guy's still alive & is moving around. I'll keep you updated.
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Robins Critters
1.0 Corn snakes Jack Skellington
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
0.1 Albino Sonoran Gopher Snake Jasmine
1.3 Leopard Geckos Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
0.1.1 Crested Geckos Peek & Boo
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo
0.0.2 Eastern Box Turtles Squirtle & Yurtle
0.1 Pacman Frog Buffy the Cricket Slayer
0.0.1 Sulawesi Red Toad Mr. Toad
0.2 Tiger Salamanders Tiger & Sally
1.1.3 Firebelly Newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Olivia Newton John & Thandie Newton
1.1 Cats Gus & Mena

Reptile eggs are soooo confusing to deal with. Birds are much easier. Ya candle em after 72 hrs of incubation and see some red and then (depending on what kind of bird you have) you wait the necessary amount of days and bingo a new chick.

With reptiles I use one rule only. Until it gets rancid I just don't touch.

I have had collapsed eggs hatch, eggs that had to constantly wipe mold off of hatch, eggs that when candled showed no visible developement whatsoever hatch. The only ones that I have had that never hatch 100% of the time where ones that shriveled to hard little rocks or got rotten and stinky.

Good luck with the little one. If it is still moving chances are good it will hatch sucessfully.

Keep us posted

Steve