Hi everyone,

My first girl to lay (first clutch I've ever dealt with!) laid her eggs on 4-4-14 (so they've only been in the incubator for a week!). I had the incubator and egg box set up, all the temperatures and humidity was right, put the eggs in, and everything was fine. On 4-6-14 (so only two days in), I had to leave for a business trip and just got back home about an hour ago. I had a family member who has never dealt with snake eggs "egg sit" for me to make sure that the temps and humidity were right. There wasn't a single problem with the temperatures or humidity while I was gone, so I wasn't worried about them upon my return.

Apparently, we were fooled.

I looked into my incubator to check temps and first, saw this (black is the temp and humidity IN egg box, yellow is temp in incubator):


However, I decided to check on the eggs again just in case, and this is what I found:


As you can see, one is severely dimpled/caved, and a couple of the others are showing minor dimpling. The water you see under the egg crate is water I just added to the substrate before this picture was taken, but is not touching the eggs and had not fully absorbed into the substrate at that time. The substrate was NOT dry when I pulled the container out (a little condensation on the egg container!). My humidity probe is very quick to react, within seconds of pulling it from the bin, the reading changed.

Here are a few more pictures:




Here is another picture of the egg with the worst caving. This is after I returned it to the incubator. I candled all eggs while I had them out, and all are more developed than they were five days ago. However, you can see the color change on the bottom of the caved egg (to be honest, I'm not entirely sure if that is from water splashing on the egg as I poured it in, or if that was there beforehand).



What are your opinions on this? Should I add some moss to the bin to raise the humidity more? Do you think the caved eggs are doomed? I have another clutch due in about a week and a half, so I'm really worried about what is going on. Any advice at all would be SO appreciated!

Thanks,
Kourtney