"?" About egg dimpling

[sookieball]

don't mean to jack your thread but my clutch is 17 days from hatch date and I have one egg that has some dimpling. this same egg dimpled within the first couple days but then went away. now it's back. i don't understand why though, the humidity is at 98% and all the other eggs have not had any dimpling problems during the entire process.

any ideas?


No worries! That's what this forums for is questions and stuff!

Well no clue why it dimpled then went away but one idea is amongst this time in the incubation. The eggs start to become warmer in the eggs then the ambient around the eggs. This causes condensation (fogy like on the container) and that's when you start to see major dimpling.

Try candleing
If you can see the dark mass on the bottom of the egg than your probably gonna start seeing all the eggs collapsing.
You can also try the sphagnum moss trick.

Post a couple pics and and post a couple of mine to share and compare


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[Dave Green]

I wouldn't worry too much about slight dimpling...

[sookieball]

Here's my eggs and the dimples.


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[HopingForBabies]

Now you have me wondering about my eggs! Mine are dimpled and the substrate it mostly water. like the OP said,it is the ones closest to the heat. They are also from May 12th.

[sookieball]

Well I am thinking maybe those dimpling now will hatch a little sooner than the others. Not by much but maybe...

That's what im thinking

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[Xan Powers]

Well I am thinking maybe those dimpling now will hatch a little sooner than the others. Not by much but maybe...

That's what im thinking

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yeah that might be it


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[saskia]

Seal the box with plastic, your humidity is probebly not high enough.

If that doesn't work then I would use just vermiculite that is just wet enough that there is no water coming out en then seal the box.

(I'm talking about clutches that are not even 40 days old, after 40 days most eggs will dimple)

[sookieball]

Seal the box with plastic, your humidity is probebly not high enough.

If that doesn't work then I would use just vermiculite that is just wet enough that there is no water coming out en then seal the box.

(I'm talking about clutches that are not even 40 days old, after 40 days most eggs will dimple)

Well the egg box is sealed air tight and humidity is at 99%.
Since day 1 at 99% and 88.4-88.9 using zoomed reptibator!
I used the" !" On that last sentence to let anyone know that this Is a reliable product. Flimsy but reliable.

And I have them on a screen separating the eggs from vermiculite.
The vermiculite is very wet and no condensation on the top of the container nor the eggs.

Here they are right before they went in the incubator on may 14
(They were laid the 12th around 1230am)
My incubator didn't show up till the 14th.



Here they are again now...same pic as a couple post before.


The top three are dimpled and the bottom 4 aren't.
That's why im thinking they are gonna hatch a little premature.

But I can see what look like little snake bodies in those three and the other four kinda see a tail or something... so not too worried.



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