Funny looking egg?

[LSeelt]

So I have a breeding group (1.3) that have been together for a while now, and the male is a super breeder. Two of the females laid eggs in the same couple of days, in the plantation soil in their tank. Neither of them used their lay boxes, just the caves on the ground. All four of the eggs were in the same cave, and they all look normal and have cheerios.

The third laid two weeks later in the plantation soil, but the soil had dried out a little. One of the eggs is very oblong and dried and shriveled. There was no cheerio and it's going yellow. It is definitely not viable. The other egg is very oblong as well (we're talking 3 times as long as it is wide) and dented on one side. It is ivory-white and has a strange looking cheerio. I've placed it in an incubation box, and I know that generally it is best to incubate just in case, but does anyone think this is a viable egg? Is it just that the other two females have been bred before and this one is new so it could just be the first clutch? Or could my error of letting the soil go too dry be the problem?

Any thoughts?

 

[Aimless]

it sounds like a dud, but the general rule of thumb is don't toss it til it grows legs or oozes out of the incubation box on it's fungus.

I've heard stories of really, really nasty looking eggs hatching just fine. as long as there's any doubt, why waste her hard work?

 

[lickyoureyeballs]

I've noticed occasionally the first clutch isn't good. Dry soil will lead to the eggs drying out and shriveling up. You'll notice divots in eggs that get too dry. If you burry them shallowly in the incubator substrate they can come back, unless of corse they were too far gone or never fertile.