sweating for 4 hours?

[fallen_angel]

We have been expecting an egg to hatch ever since the clutchmate hatched on Friday. I noticed it sweating at 4am and have been waiting for it to hatch.. it is now 8am.. should I be worried that it hasn't done anything for so long? Maybe it's having problems breaking through?

 

[fallen_angel]

Just took this pic, you can see where he is trying to come out through the bottom..

 

[GeckoGathering]

Assist the little guy?

Note :I hope he's out before you read this........I have assisted some to get out that were raring for a little help..I would help out due to the other mate being out already 3 days and he is most likely ready from your comment (Sorry I can't see him breaking through)...But if so, care in the tool used not to harm it. T.C. /HJ

 

[fallen_angel]

Well I took a nap because I just couldn't stay up waiting all day, and that thing still hasn't hatched! It's been twelve hours now.. I guess I could take another picture to see if it's changed any at all.. it's hard to tell if it looks any different when I've been looking at it every hour.

I did a search about sweating, it's just that most threads about sweating are about abnormal swating that happens when an egg goes bad.. this egg isn't bad, at least, not yet. One person said that eggs can sweat for days, but I have never heard of this and have no idea if it's really true.

I don't think we have anything that would be a proper tool for opening an egg, maybe just poke a little hole with a needle?

He wasn't breaking through in the pic, I just meant you could see how the egg was getting really pointy at the bottom. I am really getting worried if something's terribly wrong with it or not.

 

[fallen_angel]

I guess it's rounded out a bit more.. lol, I really don't know, now I just feel like I've lost my sanity from watching this egg for so long! Mike tells me that the sweating has appeared to increase slightly. I can't capture the sweat in any pics, though.

 

[GeckoGathering]

assisting hatch

with what you said about the clutchmate hatching 3 days ago.I would think the other egg is either developed enough not to hurt anything by assisting it. Take it in you palm and see if you feel movement. I have before when the time on the egg has bee 72 days. I opened it and the force the gecko shot out of it was shocking. It was ready and took off running right away. The yoke sac was all used up. Was big and ready....not sure why it didn't come out on its own.......T.C. Good luck. I used an exacto knife to make a small insission....... Small Sewing scissors to make a small cut......scissors cut at the very tips of them.

 

[fallen_angel]

Thanks for your help HJ, we really appreciate it

We DO know that he's been moving around, we have candled him and have seen him laying in different positions. He's definitely taking his sweet time, either chowin' down on that yolk sac or just sleeping.. Seems like he's been trying to get out, but falls asleep too often to really make any progress.. I don't know, lol

The egg is definitely "big and ready".. Mike and I are kind of scared to bother it, I think we will assist it if it doesn't hatch before we go to bed (I can't take another night of this!!) Anyone else ever have this happen?

 

[fallen_angel]

Well we made an incision because it appeared that the egg had stopped sweating.. and that didn't seem good.. the yolk just oozed out a bit, but that's it.. nothing else is happening.. what do we do now?

 

[fallen_angel]

Okay, well I took the advice from this other thread: http://www.geckoforums.net/showthread.php?t=7715&highlight=pipped

i would finish pipping it. if you have some cuticle scissors gently either pinch the egg where it is kinda lose or you can cut there it has pipped at. very gently with the pointy ends of the scissors facing away from the gecko make very small little cuts. once you have cut it about a half an in (long way on the egg) take a closer look to see if the baby is still alive. if it is or is not take the baby out. and gently wipe the yolk and what not from around its body and head, so it can breath.

and will post what I found in a totally separate thread due to the nature of the photos..

 

[fallen_angel]

So the answer to my original question is - yes, sweating for four hours (+) is BAD!!

 

[Green_Snake]

Whats happening with the egg? Any change?

 

[fallen_angel]

I reposted on a different thread due to the nature of the photos: Very strange, but interesting *WARNING* graphic pics

 

[elphani]

My experience with sweating eggs is that ~1 hour sweating is o.k. If it takes longer there is something wrong with the baby! As your baby I had a deformed one that could not hatch and the egg was sweating 1-2 days. Then the movements inside stopped and so I opend it and found a deformed hatchling.

That was last year when I incubated some eggs from my Patternless female. It was her first year and I had a lot of Problems with those eggs (the other eggs from different females incubated at the same time were all perfect!). The first baby from her has deformed eyelids (but she is doing very well!) and most of the eggs stopped developping in the first 2-4 weeks and the colour changed from red to yellow again - I had that never before! One egg still showed a little bit orange inside thats why I left it in the incubater. I never saw some Babyshadow or movements inside but the egg looked fine. At the hatch date it began to sweat... After one day I opend the egg and there was nothing inside than egg fluid. No signs of an embryo!!! That was very fascinating - sweating egg without baby!
Unfortunately from 10 eggs only that one with the deformed eyelids hatched! Of course I will never incubate some eggs from this female again!

So I never have a good feeling when an egg is sweating more then one hour. But I don't open the egg ... until it begins to smell ... just leave the nature do because I am afraid to kill a baby when I open the egg to early.