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[yellermelon]

I have a incubater full o' good eggs. Thank goodnes now I have one egg in particular, it is viable..or at least it candles very pinkinsh red. and has plumped up a bit..and is leathery. At aroundd 10-12 days it got a green velvet like mold on the end. I seperated it, the egg still candles well, 7 days later..the mold is growing a bit though, and the egg is becoming transparent were the mold is around.
My question is what would cause the green velvet mold on a viable egg? Is this egg doomed? I trhought last year the mold was coming from the spagnum I was using somhow..but this year I am using vermiculite in the lay box. I just would like to prevent this in the future. Thanks for any helping comments

 

[Surf_420]

just try wiping off the mold, it could possibly be too humid but dont take my word for it. i have had eggs in the past do this and i wiped it off with water and changed out the vermiculite the eggs were in.

few weeks later i had baby's

 

[paulnj]

I think I read that foot powder helps get rid of that. I have no mold , nor do I have gold bond foot powder... hahaha

Could be worse.... I had 17 VIABLE eggs go bad on me so far and am clueless as to why !!!!

 

[Franks_Geckos]

Excessive humidity (usually caused by too much water mixed with perlite or vermiculite) can do this. Also, make sure you check the incubator often because if one egg fails in the incubator, it could mold quick and spread to other viable eggs in a high humidity environment and ruin multiple eggs quickly. I have found Albey's method to work the best as far as incubation medium and water mixture percentage. It may not appear to be very humid in the container, but I have lost alot fewer eggs in the perlite at that humidity level than in other mediums using "guesswork" mixture levels that usually entail squeezing excess water out of vermiculite. A good way to ensure the mixture stays proper is to periodically re-weigh the entire container with the lid and perlite/water mixture and add water if necessary to get it back to the original weight. This is assuming of course that you weighed it all out before you ever put an egg in it to know what it is supposed to weigh. Also make sure to exchange the air in the container weekly and seal it up tight before putting it back in the incubator.

 

[gko reptiles]

Make sure you change out all the perlite or vermiculite (whichever you use) in the container. We use the foot-fungus spray to get rid of the mold. We just wipe off the mold and lightly spray the egg. It works pretty well.

 

[yellermelon]

thanks for the help. I am using Albeys method on perlite. I mix 100 perlite and go like 78 water so I go a lil dryer than .8 anyway lol. \
So If I have the eggs seperated and what not, can my eggs in other containers in the same inc. become "contaminated"?

 

[Franks_Geckos]

thanks for the help. I am using Albeys method on perlite. I mix 100 perlite and go like 78 water so I go a lil dryer than .8 anyway lol. \
So If I have the eggs seperated and what not, can my eggs in other containers in the same inc. become "contaminated"?

No. The containers will be airtight? Unless of course, you have holes in them...

 

[yellermelon]

no airholes. One of your sentences confuesed me alittle. i was just making sure i wiped the green off that egg. and today it seemed to be "sweating" again on the wierd area. so i dont know if this egg will make it

 

[Mel&Keith]

We use Hatchrite and have had really good luck with it. We did have one female last year who kept laying fertile eggs that went bad after a couple of weeks. The embryo would start forming and then die. It happened with almost all of her eggs. Maybe that's what happened with that egg.

 

[yellermelon]

This same female did just what you just explained. last year. hopefully not this year too.