Wheeleri issue

[oli]

Hey everyone, I had a clutch of wheeleri that started to sweat hardcore yesterday, and they were all darkish looking like the geckos were going to break out any second. 1st question, should I leave those beads of water on the sweating eggs, or is it better to take the corner of a paper towel and soak this condensation up? I figured I'd let them do their thing for the evening and when i woke up I went to check on the eggs, and still no hatchlings. I then cut the eggs open as they were very soft to find both clutchmates fully formed, yet dead. Sucks, but I guess it happens. Any suggestions? Things I maybe didn't do correct, or things i could've changed? Any help/closure is appreciated, thanks....

 

[oli]

no one can help me out with some experience here, ok I see how it is....

 

[G's Geckos]

thats tough, sorry to hear that. I've had the same thing happen to my galeatus eggs, they would sweat hardcore and the eggs looked like a DARK cloud. I actually cut the one egg open to find the baby mostly dead but i revived him.
In the future when they sweat and nothing comes out in 5 minutes im cutting away. I have no idea why sometimes it happens, whether the hatchling is too weak or the egg is too calcified.
Anyway, i think you should cut after the egg sweat. With crested experience im sick of loseing gekos due to this so i have no problem cutting away in this circumstance..

 

[PassPort]

never had this issue before, I'm sorry to hear they were dead. maybe a temperature spike?

 

[Graham_s]

its hard to say what the problem could have been, could have been any number of things. I would suggest that if they couldn't get out then maybe over-calcification of the eggs, but you mentioned that they were soft, so I doubt that would be the case.
you may have just got unlucky?
I have had a lot of bad luck with eggs and hatchlings this year as well.
Some people have great success with it, but I personally am against cutting geckos out of eggs, purely for the reason that if they aren't able to get out of the egg then they may not be strong enough to do so, and I don't want to bring weak animals into the world. when it comes to hatching time, i let nature do its thing (even though the rest of the process is hardly natural).

 

[Griesi]

The reason for this is most often a too wet incubation medium at the end of the incubation.
This method works very good for me with australian gecko-eggs:
Albey's How To Incubate Leopard Gecko Eggs

More eggs to come, don`t worry!
Karsten

 

[oli]

thank you for the advice guys, it's just food for thought really, and it's very nice to hear some reasons for this happening. I understand we are dealing with life, and with that comes death as well, and I also feel you Graham on that you don't cut them open to keep only the strongest as survivors! Thanks for the link too and the surge of confidence, i wish you all the best!