Re: Please help! FREAKING out right now...
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WingedWolfPsion
Take care to keep things very clean--it's possible the eggs won't have a proper 'bloom' to protect them from bacteria and fungal invasions. Be ready to be generous with anti-fungal powder if necessary, too.
That's a good point. I'm wondering if that rubber cement looking stuff on the egg is from laying. One of my females "egg cement" looks neon green, but it's usually clear and you can sometimes see it dried and hard on the end of the egg that was last to be pushed out. You can see a clear film over the eggs as they are being laid and it dries very quickly and gets hard. It will be interesting to see what happens with these eggs. Definitely keep a close eye on them and have some foot powder handy.
Hopefully people know what I'm talking about some what. I don't have a great picture of what it looks like, but it looks like there is a little dollop of hot glue/rubber cement on the ends of these eggs. This female's eggs always have a noticeable film/glue over top the entire egg and are messy on the end that was last to be pushed out.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...eeding/009.jpg
Re: Please help! FREAKING out right now...
Unfortunately nothing good. I don't think any of the eggs are going to make it, if any are still even alive. Between not getting the gooey rubber cement looking coating that Deborah posted, the egg box getting dropped and the eggs getting wet, I didn't like the chances to begin with. At this point, the eggs are discolored, some starting to look like they may be starting to rot from the inside out. I'm going to try to candle tomorrow to see if any are still good and to get rid of the bad ones. I'll update again when I know more...
