Another molding egg question!?!?!?

[justin-branam]

One of my 2 1/2 year old females laid her first set of eggs for me (bought her a few months ago) 3 days ago. she dropped them in the middle of the cage (which made me think they would be infertile at first), and they started to dent a bit from drying out i assume, but i found them within an hour after she laid them, and stuck them in some moist vermiculite anyways. they are now moist, but are still a bit dented, but i candled them and there was definitely red veins in there. Now they have started to get a little bit of hairy white mold on them. Any ideas of what to do. It seems like the eggs are fertile and may do okay, but they are not firm like the other eggs i have had (they are easily mis-shaped when picking them up). I really want to try to save these because they will be my first patternless, so any help would be appretiated. Ill post a picture of them soon.

 

[eyelids]

You can try burying them 2/3 of the way in the incubation medium. This has worked for me on dehydrated eggs before. On the other hand, if they were just laid and are already moldy there probably isn't much hope for them. I've had moldy eggs hatch, but the mold didn't appear until a few days before they were due.

EDIT: I just re-read your post... Your vermiculite may be too moist. Have you successfully hatched eggs with the method you're using? I have had great success with the 0.8 parts water to 1 part perlite method; only losing two fertile eggs all of last season.

 

[justin-branam]

Well here are the pics. The mold started today (so its been 3 days)

And heres the momma:

 

[eyelids]

Those definitely don't look like fertile eggs.

 

[BalloonzForU]

There looks to be way too much moisture in the vermiculite. Try squeezing out all the excess water till you can't get any more out.

 

[justin-branam]

Those definitely don't look like fertile eggs.

so is it possible to have red veins in an egg and it still be infertile?

 

[justin-branam]

Bumping this in hopes someone will answer my question:

so is it possible to have red veins in an egg and it still be infertile?

the eggs did end up turning brown though, so i tossed them. just wondering why there were red veins in them?

 

[BalloonzForU]

I would have cut them open to check for an ebryo prior to throughing them out, then you would have known for sure if they were fertile or not.