Are these eggs lost?

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Hi all,

I’'m new here.
What a great community this is. I read a lot of posts here these last days.

I think i have a BIG problem with my first clutch ever!!!
Mom = Enchi, YB X Dad = Pastel Asphalt

Clutch is 5 weeks old. Temperture is 31,5 degrees celcius steady, Hummid - 99%
Vermiculite bedding.
But now @ 5 weeks they start to smell a little in the box and have greenisch discoloration.
What is happening?
Too moist?
Too dry?
A fungus?

Any tips are very welcome.

The biggest question of all…CAN i still save them?
Cause they need another 3 weeks before hopefully hatching.

Thx for your help in advance.
Regards
Demazelen

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do they still have veins? if they still have veins you maybe able to save them with some foot powder sprinkled on them. Look a little wet.

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I just candeld them. Yess they all still have veins.
The shells feel a little soft though.

Does it help if i squeeze the vermiculite, to make it more dry?

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Part of your issue might be that condensation is dripping down onto the eggs. To combat this I advocate propping one side of the tub up by about 3-5cm. This allows the water to roll along the top and then down the side of the container instead of just dripping down

I would also suggest a larger box for your eggs, they are pretty tight in there

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TY.
Maybe that explains the kind of ‘drips’ spots on the eggs…
But i never saw any consendation on the lit of the box?

Does a paper towel work on the eggs? Or does it absorb more moist into the eggs?

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A paper towel would hold the moisture against the eggs. That is not a good idea

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Travis I’m disappointed in you as an American. We measure in functional units here like blue whales, car lengths, and over yonders #anythingbutmetric :joy:

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I work in science Don, everything to me is metric, all the time. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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How many blue whales is 3-5cm? lol

And a rule of thumb on eggs is always incubate until there is no debate, I’d say if there are still veins and the white of the eggs still looks like a healthy color, not all yellow and brown, I’d keep trying with the tips mentioned above.

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Thats like 0.0015 of a blue whale, duh! :joy:

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That’s a great idea. I’ll save this for when I begin to have clutches. To the OP, good luck! I hope your eggs turn out :mending_heart:

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Not sure this is related to the issue at all, but if you have the plastic egg crate in there to keep the eggs off of over-saturated substrate then I think you have it buried too deep to keep the eggs off the substrate. If so, I’d put another one of those crates on top.

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He @t_h_wyman just wants wants to show off that he is “edumacated! :nerd_face:

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You mean the eggs are still to close to the substrate in this set-up?

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I will TY. I keep this post updated.

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It always amazes me how averse people are metric while they confidently struggle with fractions :joy:

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While half of America thinks that 5.5 feet is the same as 5’ 5". :rofl:

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That reminds me of the 1/3 burger debacle. I believe it was Wendy’s that stopped making 1/3lb burgers because people weren’t buying it due to believing that 1/4lb burgers were bigger :joy:

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Were the eggs laid with those “dots” in the shells? I know I’ve had such before. How many days has it been since they were laid? If it’s +/- 50, it would be appropriate for the shells to start softening /dimpling.

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I’ve seen those on freshly laid eggs, pretty sure we’ve had a couple clutches like that. However, we’ve never had an associated smell. We use perlite for our boxes and that smells like pretty much nothing, so it’s there a smell inherent to vermiculite?

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