White Mold on Egg

[geckocrazygirl]

I have one of the two eggs left that my leopard gecko laid almost two weeks ago. I dropped the one and it ended up shriveling completely. The other has a small pink ring at the top and I haven't messed with it or even opened the incubator (Tupperware - with perlite - humidity 80) for about a week. It looked fine last time I looked at it and isn't wrinkled at all, but today I noticed the lid was really wet from the humidity so I opened it and the egg was wet with a thin layer of what I think is white mold. It still has the pink ring (when candled) at the top but it hasn't gotten any bigger.

Still a good egg maybe? I tried to gently wipe off the mold but it was wet and I didn't want to touch it too hard, it didn't rub off at all.

Thank you

(first clutch - definitely mated)

 

[Leogirl1377]

I would just make sure you keep your eye on it. I mean worst comes to worst it doesn't hatch!

 

[geckocrazygirl]

Here is a picture of the egg

 

[Tamara]

Hi,
The mold propabley grew because you did not opened the container to give it proper ventilation.
A molded egg however does not always mean that the egg is bad so don't throw it away, we have had eggs that where completely covered and they stil hatched without any problems...

 

[Aimless]

^agreed. don't toss it til it smells bad.

that being said, for both gecko and python eggs I've only had trouble like this when the lid of the container was concave and moisture collected in the middle of the lid, and then dripped onto the egg. but yes, they also do need some amount of ventilation.

 

[Saskia]

Incubate until there´s no debate.... leave it be until there is no doubt it is bad, however, it does look a bit too yellow... good luck with it