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Unfortunately, nothing good to update. The egg that pipped contained a dead baby that wasn't finished developing. One more egg pipped the exact same way, with just a tiny slit and a kinked, not fully developed baby inside. And the eggs that didn't pip also contained dead babies. It's like they stopped developing a few weeks ago - fully formed mostly white babies (hadn't gotten color yet), and eventually the yolk couldn't support them anymore, but they weren't developed enough to survive outside the egg.
I won't be re-pairing the mom this year, but I'll try again next year. The father of the clutch is here on loan and I never saw a full lock from them despite many sessions (which I always monitor, so I wouldn't miss a lock). So I'm kind of wondering if this clutch was actually a partho clutch. The one baby that had color looked exactly like a lava cinder (mom's morph). The dad is not het cinder, so I shouldn't have gotten any visual cinders. Plus the dad is tessera and none of the 4 babies were tessera.
Anyway, quite a bummer, but that's how it goes sometimes. I still have several neat upcoming clutches, but they aren't due to hatch until late August, early Septemberish.
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