Egg Problems

[Bliss]

I have had a problem with some of my eggs. It seems like the babies are dying about a week or 2 before they are due to hatch. Some have swollen up fairly big then deflate when they was due to hatch but nothing hatches out and then it goes mouldy. I have also ripped some open when it has deflated incase some of them was struggling to get out but i found dead hatchlings, almost but not quite fully developed. So this shows that all the eggs were firtile but some thing has happened along the way to stop them developing?

All my eggs were incubated using GEO's and its only eggs from my Bell pairing that ive had these problems with. I have had 100% hatch rate with my Tremper eggs using the same conditions, in the same incubator.

Any ideas why this might of happened?

The first 3 Bell eggs did hatch though with no problems.

 

[acpart]

It's happening to me too and I'm as puzzled as you are. I generally don't open eggs, figuring that if they don't hatch on their own they aren't meant to hatch. I have opened a few eggs lately when they got past 8 weeks, still looked good and nothing happened. In both cases, the gecko (even after over 8 weeks) still had a fairly large yolk sac. In one case the baby was fine and continues to do well. In the other, the baby only made it for 2 days though it was large and well-developed. This is happening regardless of pairing. I incubate at 83-84 using a SIM in a reptipro5000. Beats me.

Aliza

 

[EnchantmentGecko]

Two of mine just did the same thing though they are on vermiculite. They were due to hatch next week and then they molded. I though maybe they had just be infertile but both had babies that were dead. Just before they molded I had one hatch much smaller than he should have been with his yolk sac on the outside. He ripped it off but seems to be doing alright so far. That one had long passed his 60 days.

 

[That_DL_Kid]

I've had more dead in the egg this year as well. I know down south we had a crazy heat wave and all my dead in eggs were either in their first or second week incubating during the heat wave. The two eggs that did hatch had some crinkled eyelids.

 

[katie_]

I've had more dead in the egg this year as well. I know down south we had a crazy heat wave and all my dead in eggs were either in their first or second week incubating during the heat wave. The two eggs that did hatch had some crinkled eyelids.

I thought crinkled eyelids were caused be a calcium problem with the mother.

 

[That_DL_Kid]

Looking on the forums they said temp fluctuations. The same female had fine eggs in the female incubator, the male incubator which was a cheap hovabator was the only place where there was crinkled eyelids.

 

[katie_]

Never heard of that before.