Dead SAHD eggs

[Trench]

Some people might have seen my thread on two of my SAHD eggs shriveling up like they do before hatching but one not doing that untill 5 days later.
Non of them had hatch and it has now been about a week and I decided to pip the eggs and found three dead babys one was from an egg that split from the egg soaking up too much moister.
I have left the egg that was late at shriveling up as it seems to have a bit more moister in it but I am not holding too much hope for it.
I have two theorys
1. is that the heat over the last few days killed them even thought I had them in the coolest room in the house it still got up to 33c on some days.
2. I transferred the eggs to a dryer substrate after one bursting from too much moister, and when the eggs shriveled up to hatch they got sucked dry and the dried egg white glued them to the sides of the egg so they could not cut their way out. When removing one of them from the egg it was glued so badly to the side of the egg that it's skin tore.

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Any suggestions on how too keep the heat down?
Thanks

 

[saintanger]

maybe look at getting an incubater with a fan in it so it stays at set temperature, if it gets to hot fan will cool it back down to desired temp,

they look so tiny and inoccent, poor little things.

 

[Venomous_RBB]

I'm sorry for your loss, that would be horrible.
Good luck with the last egg

 

[spongebob]

Two suggestions.
1. Use 50:50 water:vermiculite and put in a tub with a window cut in the lid and place glad wrap over he top when you put the lid back on. The glad wrap allows gaseous exchange but keeps the water in. No need to open the tub until they hatch
2. Place tub on the floor, preferably a tiled or concrete one during periods of hot weather. This should keep the temp down.

 

[Trench]

maybe look at getting an incubater with a fan in it so it stays at set temperature, if it gets to hot fan will cool it back down to desired temp,

they look so tiny and inoccent, poor little things.

I am at the moment saving to make myself a reptile room out of chilla panels so I should be able to keep the temps down in there, I just need something quick and cheap for in the mean time,
But now that you mention it a broken fridge with a working fan would do a good job if I just had the space, Thanks

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I'm sorry for your loss, that would be horrible.
Good luck with the last egg

Thanks
I also have two other clutches and one more on the way, so am hoping and praying that this does not happen again

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Two suggestions.
1. Use 50:50 water:vermiculite and put in a tub with a window cut in the lid and place glad wrap over he top when you put the lid back on. The glad wrap allows gaseous exchange but keeps the water in. No need to open the tub until they hatch
2. Place tub on the floor, preferably a tiled or concrete one during periods of hot weather. This should keep the temp down.

The container that they are pictured in is not the incubation container, I just put them in there as it was handy when I was piping them
To the second suggestion we don't have any tiles or concrete inside our place, and even if we did when you have 8 younger brothers and sisters, to leave something on the floor is to have a death wish for what ever it is,
Thanks any way, If it weren't for those factor it would have been a great idea,

 

[saintanger]

get a small bar fridge, or one of those small incubators you can buy online. if the kids touch those egss tell them they will be eating them for breakfast. lol should gross them out and hopfully they stay away.

 

[disintegratus]

as a short term solution, a styrofoam box *should* help to maintain stable temps a little bit, or a spare esky if you have one. I don't know if this works or not, never tried it, but filling up all the available spare space with bottles of water should also help maintain stable temps as well. if it's going to be ridiculously hot, maybe some cold water bottles to help drop the temps down a touch too.

 

[Pythons Rule]

you could buy one of these tiny portable incubators for $180-200 odd from ebay, dealsdirect.
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[bredli]

I have used wet towls wrapped around fridge incubators with fans blowing on them to keep the temps down on really hot days, Works a treat !.

 

[Trench]

Thanks for all the help and suggestions, I have put two water bottles in the bottom of an esky, will see how that goes at keeping the temps down