2014 Pastel het..

candle and look for movement or cut

Crossing my fingers for you! Hopefully with them being so close, it'll be ok...

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Originally Posted by fatSNAKEs

congrats Albert, agree nice clutch for virgin female! I'm thinking the odds on with you on this one ... :)

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Thanks fat, that's encouraging.

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Originally Posted by fatSNAKEs

hey Albert, the spike is a concern but by day 55 they're almost developed, you should be fine ... just keep things stable.

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Thanks again, even more encouraging.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Hopefully they will be ok, it's really hard to tell with such a big heat spike.

Since they are near due date I would probably go ahead and cut.

Crossing my fingers for you.

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Tyvm Deb! I guess that is mostly all I have is hope. :(

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Originally Posted by Kokorobosoi

Fingers crossed!!

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Thanks Koko, I appreciate that. :)

Hey, I candled all six and see good vein structure in all of them. Also I see move to and a lot of shadows in all the eggs. Do you think I should still cut or wait?

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

candle and look for movement or cut

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Thanks Pit! I candled and saw movement in all the eggs. Should I still go ahead and cut?

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Originally Posted by kylearmbar

Crossing my fingers for you! Hopefully with them being so close, it'll be ok...

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Thanks kylea! That's really what I am hoping for as well.

Hoping for the best for you!

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Originally Posted by Eric00

Hoping for the best for you!

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Thanks Eric! Nice to see your back in town. Bp town! Lol.:)

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Originally Posted by Albert Clark

Hey community, had a unfortunate occurrence today with this clutch. Went into the room basically to do routine cleanings and when I looked at the thermometer in the tub that contains six pastel het pied eggs I almost collapsed. Temperature was at 103.0F! Humidity was 99%. This clutch is at day 55 and most of my other clutches began pipping at day 53. The 103.0F was rather disturbing, so I rushed in and took the lid off and also the press and seal and was able to gradually get the temp down to 92.2F. Ironically the other tub with one egg in it remained at 88.7F. IDK how long the temps were that high but I last checked the eggs on 6/20/16 when I vented the tub. I am really upset and afraid I may have lost this clutch. The temps now are 88.7F and 88.3F in the single egg tub. Checked the incubator and connections all seemed in order with the incubator. I am checking temps every half hour now. Any other clutch I had pipped at day 53. Scared!

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Hindsight is 20/20.. but I do know my Herpstat has both high and low temp alarms as well as high and low humidity alarms. You might want to consider an investment in equipment with alarm capability (or enabling the capability if its not already in use). I can appreciate that they are costly, but it would be reasonable to use for "higher risk/higher reward" activities like incubating..

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Originally Posted by Doggtyred

Hindsight is 20/20.. but I do know my Herpstat has both high and low temp alarms as well as high and low humidity alarms. You might want to consider an investment in equipment with alarm capability (or enabling the capability if its not already in use). I can appreciate that they are costly, but it would be reasonable to use for "higher risk/higher reward" activities like incubating..

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Thanks Dt, I appreciate the sentiments but I am using the ZooMed reptibator as the incubator and this machine has a built in proportional thermostat. All my racks and quarantine tubs are on herpstats. I have 5 of them. The reptibator has a alarm setting but it wouldn't have triggered because the problem was in the tub that housed 6 eggs and wasn't the incubator malfunctioning as far as I can tell. The tub that was adjacent to the problem tub was sitting at 87.6f in the incubator. The way I found out about the high temp was when I looked at the thermometer. I had positioned the thermometer probe in between the space at the base of the clutch.

So I did go ahead and cut the eggs this morning and they are all alive and moving. I lowered the thermostat setting to 86.0f and the interior of the tub temp is at 87.2 with just the press and seal and no lid. The other tub is sitting at 87.2f steady. 99% humidity. Swapped out the thermometer and will see what readings I get. I am glad they are all moving and alive. Thank you to everyone who weighed in. Appreciated.