Hi there,

Got a beautiful clutch of 7 fatal eggs, incubated well with vermiculite which I've done a few times over the years for 55 days. Never once they came out their egg themselves, which I would cut a small hole in day 60.

However for this particular clutch of lesser X normal, everything seem alright when I cut them, left it there for 2 days to allow them to absorb their yolk, after 4 days, everything just doesn't change, never show any sign of coming out the egg, so I cut the egg bigger and saw there is still a full yolk sack in each of them.

On day 70, those lesser's still look so tiny and weak, I have no choice but to assist in bringing them out in case there is a twisted umbilical cord but there is not, the yolk sack and stuff inside the egg are getting rotten where I could find lava of fruit flies swimming in there. They just look so weak with very minimum heart beat. All 3 lesser were dead in 2 hours time.

I couldn't think of anything went wrong beside my incubation temperature was inconsistent which caused them to be immature but it never happen before.

There are still 4 normals in their egg, which I don't know what to do to help them, normally after 3 - 4 days they should finished absorbing their yolk in my own experience. What you guys think I should do, should I just leave it there in their rotten eggs till it comes out themselves? or there is some other alternatives I could do?

My time line was 60 days of incubation, cut and leave them for another 10 days, need advice on how to get these 4 normals to survive, thanks