Egg Help

[MKHerps]

I recently had two females lay eggs for the first time. the second females eggs look grat, but the first females eggs not so good. They have not dried up, but ar not smooth. They almost look like fiberglass. They are kinda off white and not that bright white like the other females eggs. I have pics of the eggs i think are bad. please excuse some of the moss left from the egg box. Do mistake it for bad spots on the egg, as far as i can see the egg has not developed any bad spots it still looks the same since the day she laid them.

[llovelace]

I would incubate them anyway time will tell

[mlededee]

It doesn't look bad, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is fertile (sometimes cresteds will lay a clutch of infertile eggs before they start laying fertile ones). Eggs can vary slightly in color and in texture and sometimes even vary greatly if the female is not healthy or not getting enough calcium (in this case the eggs will not be shelled smoothly or may be missing areas of shell altogether).

Incubate all of the eggs and see what happens. If any mold all the way through you know for sure they are bad, but wait until they are good any moldy/cheesey before tossing them. Sometimes nice babies come out of not so great looking eggs.

[MKHerps]

Thanks you I have them in the bator and will wait and see what happens. I thought myself that maybe there was a calcium issue going on, but i have three females and one male together and i am not sure wich female laid the first clutch. The female i thought laid them i caught laying the second clutch only four days later. I would pull the female that laid the first clutch if i knew who she was.