Egg leaked from a pinhole in the egg, now it has mold--is it doomed?

[kimwal]

Does anyone have any cool stories about the impossible egg that hatched?--I'd love to hear it. I have an egg , that my Giant Mack Snow female laid in her dry box. She laid the egg(she lays 1 at a time) and it had a hole in it-it leaked for about 1 week tiny amounts, I wiped it off but it did not help, now the egg has mold, I have it in vermiculite but sitting off of it on a dry plastic lid inside the vermiculite container. It is very fertile, red veins all throughout-it is 2 weeks old. The mold does not wipe off, the leaking stopped though.

 

[Mardy]

I've had a dry egg that was laid in the cool hide hatch. The egg never plumped, it stayed rock hard, and felt dry. I thought for sure it was gone, especially when it started to mold on both ends of the egg. But out of principle, the whole incubate until there's no debate, I kept incubating it. One day a beautiful hatchling came out of it.

So you just never know. Until the egg deflates or smells rotten, keep incubating it.

 

[Saskia]

Sadly I do not have such stories, all mine that have looked odd have eventually died, I had a very unusual case of an egg that was incubating for about 80 days, looking good, but 80 days!! (85 degrees), finally I STUPIDLY cracked it open and there was a tiny tiny pink gecko in there, it didn´t look alive, but didn´t look all that bad, however, it incubated for too long, and the lil guy was maybe about 1 inch long, and completely pink, I don´t think it was going to make it, but... you never know

 

[kimwal]

Wow-interesting--sounds like it still had another month to go--thanks for your story.

 

[kimwal]

We need to hear these upbeat stories as it is easy to give up on some of the wrinkled, moldy eggs. Thanks Mardy!