One Mouldy Egg In Middle Of Clump...

[Slytherin]

Sorry, I'm only a newbe to reptiles (my experience is with birds, fish and chooks), but wouldn't the membrane within each egg, as long as it hasnt been pierced, continue to protect the developing young inside? :?

Sorry I'm not able to help Matt, I hope all works out ok!

 

[candycaine]

I've still got eggs in the incubator on 59 days today, still havent hatched, I removed 8 mouldy ones and a week after all the rest bar 2 went mouldy I now left those ones in there and the 2 are ready to hatch any day now. I just wipe the mould off around the good ones and wipe the sweaty spinky ones to eliminate too much stink and air every 2 days.

 

[candycaine]

with a dry tissue

 

[Surfcop24]

Matt... I had the same problem wih my Clutch... Mouldy egg in the middle, at the bottom....

What I did was get a strong peice of cardboard.... Cut a Hole a couple of centimetres wide out of the centre.... Then genlty lifted the whole clutch onto the cardboard with the hole in the centre where the mouldy egg is..... With one side of the cardboard resting on the edge of the table, your missus holding the other side of the cardboard, and one hand gently on top of the clutch....... You can sit on the floor and work from underneath to clear it out.... Make sure you have a tub for the bits to drop into, plenty of fresh Air, And a strong stomach...

And yeah I basically slit it open.... Scraped out the insides....Syringed the inside of the egg, and the used cottonbuds to dry it out and make sure it was all clean..... Just make sure you dont put the content onto other eggs.....( shouldnt do with the way I described.....)


Good Luck .....

 

[candycaine]

Slytherin, no with reptile eggs they can't be rolled at all they will drown. nothing like bird eggs.

 

[SnakePower]

Matt, it is a tough call. I have had single mouldy eggs be fine in a clutch and not affect te others around it. Then last season, I lost half of a clutch due to one egg down the bottom of the clutch. It turned only a few weeks before hatching due date. I left it as I thought it would be too hard to remove and as a result, it turned about 8 other eggs that were close to it. This was all in the last week or so, so very disheartening.

Siince then I made a decision to remove any egg that has turned no matter how hard as the risk of loosing more eggs to the one bad one is just not worth it IMO.

What I do is slowly and gently separate the eggs into individuals and then just throw the bad egg away. They will separate from each other, just do it very carefully and slowly and you should be fine. They are a lot hardier than they seem. Then you completely eliminate the risk of it affecting any of your good eggs. I have tried several methods of emptying the eggs contents, but have found that separation and getting rid of the whole bad egg as a complete item gives the best results. Of course opinions vary, but that is the way I go these days... GOOD LUCK!!

Zac.

 

[serpenttongue]

I've always found that if the bad egg is wet or slimey then it will affect the eggs surrounding it. If the bad egg remains dry it doesnt affect the eggs surrounding it.

You'll find the bad egg peels away very easily once you've cut some of it away and its contents have been removed.

 

[Slytherin]

Slytherin, no with reptile eggs they can't be rolled at all they will drown. nothing like bird eggs.

Ok thanks for that. Always good to learn.

 

[buffy]

Matt
regardless of what you choose to do about the mouldy egg,
be sure to change the vermiculite.
It looks very wet and that always helps eggs to go mouldy.

As it was mentioned earlier the mouldy eggs are wet and slimy.

Change the vermiculite and don't ad water.
keep an eye on them every 2-3 days to know all is OKl
cheers

 

[Brent]

pis -egg removal

Matt
To remove bad eggs.
I always -use, paper under eggs, scalpel, tweezers, syringe and a small spoon/ scoop.
I lift eggs out onto paper or place paper under eggs in the egg container. It is easy if one person can hold-support eggs while the other works on removal. You can empty and clean an egg out then remove the shell later on and cut to the shell to the last 2 mm or so next to the other eggs.
All the eggs hatched in this case so I always remove a bad egg.
As you know never tilt eggs too much and keep them horizontal.
Good luck

 

[TRIMACO]

Good to see pictures Brent, should be very helpful.

 

[mungus]

I've always found that if the bad egg is wet or slimey then it will affect the eggs surrounding it. If the bad egg remains dry it doesnt affect the eggs surrounding it.

You'll find the bad egg peels away very easily once you've cut some of it away and its contents have been removed.

That it in a nut shell.
I remove the contents with a big **** syringe.
They then peel off without the need of you cutting them out.
The green slimy one's with the moss all over are the danger ones.
I also clean out the perlite etc to make sure that its all gone.

 

[MoreliaMatt]

Thanks everyone for the many different pieces of advice! I appreciate every single one of them!

Im gonna sleep on it still, and decide in the morning.... I havent done anything about it yet as i was waiting for many replies like there are now!

What to do, what to do!!! lol

Tough call!

 

[Slytherin]

I hope all goes well, keep us informed Matt.

 

[MoreliaMatt]

Ok, ive lifted the eggs up gently to have a look from underneath.... there are 2 other eggs touching it, that have a small, very small bit of mould growing on them too....
I have wiped off the mould from the good eggs, and a small amount from the bad egg... but couldnt get to most of it as the worst part is on the top of the egg....

I then removed a small amount of vermiculite from the incubation tub where the bad egg was sitting, and i flattened it out so the eggs are now sitting ontop of the vermiculite not set down in it.... if that makes sense??

Im just gonna keep monitoring them every couple of days.... since they are over halfway through incubation i have decided not to remove the egg and try my luck.....

See how it goes!!!

 

[mungus]

If the mould has gone and attached itself on the good eggs, then get rid of the bad egg now.
The bad egg will only get worse in time and the mould will multiply rapidly through the whole clutch.
Why leave it there now ?

 

[MoreliaMatt]

Why leave it there now ?

coz im too scared to remove it incase i damage the other ones! lol

 

[phatt01]

As you can see with my eggs, I had 3 go mouldy, with 2 attatched to one egg. The advice I was given was to leave them be, and as you can see in pics I had the rest of them hatch perfectly healthy bubs.

I am no way saying dont seperate the mouldy eggs, I just wanted to to show that by leaving them there does not necesarily mean you will lose more. It was the advice I was given and I went with it.
It was my first clutch of eggs, so I dont have the necesary expertise yet on breeding do's and donts.

 

[Mudimans]

We had a clutch of 21 coastal eggs in the incubator, 3 went mouldy in the first week but we left them and just gently clean the mould off every week when we aired them and no more went mouldy and we didn't have any troubles at all. Not saying it can't cause problems but it didn't cause us any

 

[nocturnal_pulse]

i found this thread to be very interesting and educational.....as i am interested in the breeding process it is good to learn what people do....after going through the thread i would personal remove the egg....you are at least only chancing the fact of loosing that egg and being able to clean the others alot easier without it attached....but just imo.
I would be as scared as you in loosing the clutch but ive noticed that the people who are replying to say remove the egg are breeders that have alot of experience in this area.....good luck and good arguments on both sides....