Help with eggs

[dawnskies]

Hi, this is our first bp eggs incubation and eggs are at day 6. The 6 eggs had a weight of 608g and were bumpy as you see in the pic and all candled well. Eggs were moved straight from mother to box without any rotation at all. Using perlite and egg grate with water in the bottom, we have 6 eggs, one of which had sm wet spot on top of eggs when we removed from mother. It has expanded and dimpled in a bit and wet spot has developed on another egg which has gotten bigger over last 2 days. There is only mild condensation on one side of the egg box in which no eggs are touching the top or sides of the egg box. Im wondering what can be done, or if there is something wrong with the eggs, they all candle pretty well, the 2 eggs in question have mild veins while the other 4 have more veins in view. There have been some temp fluctuation with about 4 degrees, and we have been keeping the incubator set at 86 degrees as in the egg box temps are 89-91. I seem to be pulling my hair out and having a large amount of anxiety as I do not know what could be going on with the eggs. I read how so many people just throw their eggs in the incubator set at 89 degrees with the setup I have, do or don't monitor the egg box temp, and there are no issues with their hatching, yet we haven't even had ours in for a week and already having problems. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you

Here are the eggs after hatch


and here they are day 6, note spots on top and right eggs

[Bigfish1975]

Congrats on your first clutch. I haven't really encountered the exact scenario that you're describing but the eggs don't look bad. Sometimes you'll get a clear ish spot on the egg referred to as a window. I'd leave them alone for a bit and see how they look. occasionally I'll get an egg that looks good, some veins but goes bad later. If it starts to deteriorate, you can always pull them later. I've seen eggs that are completely moldy but don't affect the others. I'm one of the guys that sets it at 89 and leaves it. It periodically open the box every 3-4 days for a little fresh air exchange and that's it. If the box doesn't seem humid enough I add a little water. I've had great success in hatching nice healthy babies with very few eggs lost over the past 4 seasons....knock on wood. Good luck and keep posting pictures.

[dawnskies]

thank you BigFish. Just want to do the best I can to hatch these little ones.

[Bigfish1975]

No problem,I know what you mean. Good luck!!!! By the way, what was the pairing?

[DooLittle]

No problem,I know what you mean. Good luck!!!! By the way, what was the pairing?

Lesser x normal

Looks like they got wet. I'm on my first clutch, so I don't have any suggestions other than to keep an eye on them.

Here is mine at day 40.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Not looking like a window to me, those look like wet spots, is the condensation building up on the lid?

[dawnskies]

they never had access to anything wet, have had no condensation on top, only a small bit on 1 side. Eggs not touching top or sides of box either.
Our pairing was 1.0 lesser x 0.1 normal.
Pic in the box

[dawnskies]

here is them in the tub as of current, other pic was moved by mistake

[rlditmars]

We had the same thing happen last year on a clutch. Could not figure out where the moisture was coming from as it wasn't dripping off the top. It was almost as if it was a spot where the moisture was leaching from the egg. I just kept dabbing it lightly with paper towel to keep the moisture at a minimum and eventually, (at least half way though the incubation period) they finally dried up. The eggs hatched fine but I still cant't quite explain why it did that.

[dawnskies]

Thank you rlditmars, we are keeping our fingers crossed, temps are good and not fluctuating much, so just keeping an eye on them (more like 4 eyes on them or 6 if you count my glasses, lol) I have hatched out perfect little cornsnake eggs in the past in a chicken incubator with no trouble at all, one set even had to go on a road trip with us, and hatched while we were on vacation all 23 hatched. Now with 6 bp eggs in the box, it is gonna drive me to drink. I dont think I was ever this anxious with the cornsnakes, did love that the hatch time was half the time of bp eggs. Its just our first clutch, and I want all the babies.