What happened?

[samh0114]

My first clutch of 100% het pieds hatched within the last five days. & out of 8 hatched and one died in the egg. All 7 seemed to be really healthy weighing from 50 grams to 70 grams. Today I checked on them and one of them was dead, and he wasnt a couple of days ago. I believe he was the only one whos egg I cut and I think he is the one who came out about five days ago. One of his eyes seems to be shriveled and his belly is really mushy, but there is like little hard things in it. He has like a cut about two thirds the way down his belly and I do not know what happened. I am leaving them on moist paper towels in the incubator until they shed. All the others are active and seem to be fine. Should I be worried about them and what could have happened to him. BTW it is about 88 to 89 degrees in there.

[dr del]

Hi,

The cut is his belly button - perfectly normal.

His eyes are probably that way through decomp.

It's really not possible to say what killed him from the picture - a vet might be able to do a necropsy if you refrigerate ( not freeze ) the body but, sad as it is to say, they just don't all make it. It can be an internal problem during development for example.


dr del

[satomi325]

The cut on the belly is where the umbilicus was. Very normal.
The eyes could be decomp, like Derick said, or just really dried out.

It was probably a developmental issue, but I can't say for sure. A necropsy would be needed.

[hypersomniacjoo]

looks like hard belly to me