One Mouldy Egg In Middle Of Clump...

[MoreliaMatt]

Hi all,

Just checked on my stimsoni eggs to candle them and exchange air etc etc.....

They all look good! they all have veins and are a nice colour except 1.... which has gone mouldy....

Trouble is, its in the middle of the clump!!! It is down the bottom though, i may be able to get to it to cut it out if i lift the eggs out the vermiculite? But i dont wanna risk ruining any of the good ones!

I dont know what to do, or even if there is anything i can do? To stop this 1 bad egg affecting the rest of the clump....

They are about halfway through incubation, they are at day 29.....

Ive attatched a pic showing which one has gone bad so you can see what i mean!
(this pic is when they were first laid, so it doesnt look mouldy in the pic)

Any advice would be great!

Cheers.

Matt

 

[spongebob]

Slit it from underneath and carefully wash out the contents.

 

[MoreliaMatt]

so it will be alright to lift the eggs up carefully?

i'll get the other half to do that and i'll slit it from underneath....

should i try to cut away as much as i can? or just slit it and clean it out? i wont be able to get to the mouldy top bit that you can see where ive circled between the other eggs, will this matter?

 

[pete12]

why dont you get a syringe and suck the contents it might work if there is no development

 

[MoreliaMatt]

im not gonna touch it til i have a few more opinions on what to do....

tomorrow morning i'll decide....

so anyone else with any ideas on what to do or what not to do....

 

[Chrisreptile]

I have a bad egg attached to my clutch of carpets, its gone mouldy.
I have left it there, i doubt the bad egg will affect the others and have been told by numerous people that it wont.
The eggs are more than half way through incubation and the others around it are fine

 

[Rocket]

As you know MoreliaMatt, i'm clueless with snakes, especially eggs so I'll leave it to the experts to answer your questions but I hope the rest of clutch hatch out nice and healthy for you.

 

[MoreliaMatt]

As you know MoreliaMatt, i'm clueless with snakes, especially eggs so I'll leave it to the experts to answer your questions but I hope the rest of clutch hatch out nice and healthy for you.

thanks mate

 

[MoreliaMatt]

I have a bad egg attached to my clutch of carpets, its gone mouldy.
I have left it there, i doubt the bad egg will affect the others and have been told by numerous people that it wont.
The eggs are more than half way through incubation and the others around it are fine

yeah ive heard of some people leaving them and being fine, but then ive also heard stories of leaving them and then affecting all the eggs around it!! and i dont want that to happen!!!

maybe just keep a close eye on the other eggs around it?

 

[arbok]

has there been any study to determine whether it will affect the surrounding eggs or not? or determine why?
it would be really interesting

 

[Ramsayi]

It depends,sometimes they are fine if left other times they can spread through the entire clutch.Me, I now always remove a bad egg even if I have to sacrifice a good one next to it as I have lost entire clutches before.

 

[MoreliaMatt]

Thanks Rams,
Thats what im worried about, losing more.....
Would you lift the eggs up and get someone to cut as much of it out as possible and clean off the remaining parts that couldnt be removed? then place them back down....
Its daunting having to handle the eggs!!

 

[Kirby]

Q-tip ?

 

[MatE]

I had the same problem Matt,my jungles had a clutch and the one at the bottom went mouldy,a mate came over and helped me to remove it.So what we did was lift up the whole clutch and slowly peeled it away from the other eggs.You need nerves of steel lol.But it did come away with not to much trouble,so you might have to take a chance and just go easy with it.But its all up to you if you want to or not.Ive also used the serynge method,you need a large needle,which are about 1-1.5mm in diameter,the vet should have the large ones they use for horses.

Cheers MatE.

 

[Crazy_Snake08]

why did you keep all the eggs together as a single mass Matt whilst incubating? where as some breeders detach the eggs from the mass?! just curious as it may have eliminated the initial process of seperating the eggs from the mass to get to that one that is mouldy.

-settle

 

[liberty]

warm water and dental floss will become ur best friend
but its up to wether u remove or not
personally i decide dependign on how the others are lookign if they are fine leave,
if its starting to trouble the rest i wash the eggs and use dental floss like saw to cut it out

 

[Dodie]

Would using a mild bleach/water solution be handy at all?

 

[liberty]

yeah that works fim kills any mould growinf on them but liek u said a mild dose is best

 

[evil_red_head]

I had the same problem with two clutches of spotty eggs. I left the egg while monitoring it to make sure the mould did not spread. The egg hatched a day after the rest of the clutch and is the best looking baby out of the lot. I think as long as the mould does not affect the others leave it, rather than risk damaging the rest of your clutch.

 

[4orce]

We had one very mouldy egg on the underside of our clutch of spotties as well, it was green and collapsed. We just monitored it to see if it started to get smelly, it didn't, we left it and the rest of the clutch hatched fine. If it got smelly we would have removed it...