The Problem Child

Well I guess there is always one that wants to give you grief, this little orange ghost was the one. I had noticed it hadn't absorbed it's yolk at all after a number of days.... so on further inspection it seemed to be lifeless and cold, but it was alive.

It looks as though the cord had wrapped around in a way that wasn't allowing it to "Download" the cargo so to speak.... it wasn't strangling itself which can happen, just wasn't able to absorb the yolk.

So I removed it from the egg, untangled it, cleaned it up and placed it back into the cleaned out egg shell. When I checked on it this morning it had completely absorbed the yolk and was pretty lively. One of those happy ending stories you could say.

Weighs in at a healthy 56g

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...Eggcutview.jpg

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...oblemchild.jpg

hes pretty cool lookin!

good looking hatchling and great to hear he made it out ok

Thanks guys! :)

Good thing you were on top of things Scott very nice ghost.

I do have a question though,

how did you "untangle" the umbelicle cord for him to absorb the yolk, just curious.

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Originally Posted by Emilio

Good thing you were on top of things Scott very nice ghost.

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Man, I'm O.C.D. when it comes to this stuff.... LOL

Congratulations on that happy ending.

Pretty specimen too!! :gj:

What a beautiful ghost. I'm so glad you were able to sort the little one out. :clap:

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

I do have a question though,

how did you "untangle" the umbelicle cord for him to absorb the yolk, just curious.

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Not hard to do, just one of those things you have to see....