So my husband and I are new at this. This is our first year actually breeding and although we thought we had researched everything we possibly could, there seem to be things popping up that we had hoped wouldn't be an issue. This year we had 6 of our 13 females lay eggs. Our Lesser (or Spider) x Normal clutch hatched a few weeks ago (all normals) and are doing awesome. However, we're having issues with a few of our other clutches. Our Spider held on to her eggs way too long, long enough I thought she had possibly just gotten really heavy and refused food for the season. All of her eggs were small and we knew they would go bad. All but one did, though I'm still not sure about it (last picture).

One of our piebalds also held on to her eggs longer than we had wanted. She laid 4 eggs, one of them was kicked out. They were small and I figured we'd lose the one that was kicked out and one other. Our other piebald laid 6 perfect eggs on time. However, as we looked at them this morning, I was incredibly frustrated and disappointed. It looks like two more of the "bad" pied clutch have gone bad - not including the one that was kicked out. And as I looked at the "healthy" pied clutch, they all look like they may have gone bad. One definitely did, and I took it out. The others...I think they're bad but my husband thinks we may just have too high humidity and they'll pull through. They candle well, but the bottoms look rotten and/or soggy to me. The pearlite mixture isn't too wet, but we did just add humidity to the room the incubator is in and we were using press-n-seal which may have made them more humid than we would like. Our other two clutches (lesser x spider and hclown) are doing just fine. Look at the pictures and tell me what you think! I'm expecting bad news but hoping for good. I'd have loved to hatch pieds this year.

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