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Assistance with a difficult egg clutch

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BarryK

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Hey everyone - last year in April and May my two females laid their first clutches and we had successful 'hatchings'.

Just before Christmas our Anery female laid a clutch of 20 eggs (although about 1/2 of these have spoiled now)!!!! Things are going well with them - a few that had started to go hard and crumple have plumped and 'softened' up now.

A couple of weeks ago our normal morph female laid 14 eggs. The thing is, some of these are really awkward because they've adhered to each other in a particular way. One egg is on top of the other, so we have a somewhat comical sight of two eggs stuck together, one beneath the other. At present we have to 'lean' the top egg against the side of the incubator. The other three are at the top of a cluster of about 7 eggs.

My only concern is that, despite having a warm humid environment (about 70-75% humidity), these 4 eggs look like they are starting to dry out; they already feel 'harder' than the others. I'm not able to bury them even slightly because that would involve COMPLETELY burying the others.

I have tried GENTLY trying to persuade the 'Leaner' egg to come off but I'm worried I'm going to rip the shell.

Any advice on what to do?
 
Can you bury the whole clump in some sort of hatchling medium like moss or perlite or vermiculite, so they are all surrounded and supported?
 
We've got them in vermiculite at the moment.

The earlier clutch WERE in perlite (we couldn't find vermiculite anywhere) but it just didn't seem to be holding any moisture, so as soon as we got the chance we bought some.

I was always under the impression that an egg should never be completely buried?

I can try and dig an extra deep ditch for the 2 eggs stuck together, but the problem with the larger clump is that it looks like I'd have to completely bury the other eggs to surround the top 3.

Later on I'll see if I can get it so that they're all surrounded but none of them are completely buried - will be fun! :p

Cheers for the tip
 
As long as the hatching medium isn't packed or solid they should do fine being buried, just don't press it in around them, let it be loose and kinda airy. got pics?
 
I can get some later - I've already tried burying them a bit more so we'll see.

It looks like 2 of the 3 I mentioned before are starting to go bad; the shell at one end is going slightly pink, as if there's bleeding going on in there.
 
I bury the bottoms eggs in clumps - no problems. I use light incubating mediums like vermiculite and sphagnum moss, so the emerging hatchlings have no trouble finding their way to the surface.

Eggs would usually be under leaf litter or similar in the wild - they wouldn't be on the ground surface or they'd be eaten. Getting out from underneath stuff on hatching is a natural process for them.
 
True true - well I've buried them mostly, tried to leave a little bit of the egg exposed though. At the moment I'm waiting for the older clutch to hatch now as I figured out earlier today that it's 61 days since they were laid!!
 
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