Hey guys, I'm on day 51 of my first clutch and I'm stressing out about them constantly!I have them incubating at 89.5* with 99% humidity. It was a small clutch of 4 eggs and they were very ugly from the start. All of them candled well with healthy veins and on day 10 one egg just completely deflated while the others stayed nice and plump. That egg stayed the same until about day 40 when it started to mold, I have very little hope for this egg but it still candles with veins so time will only tell. The remaining three stayed very nice and plump for the entire incubation period, they started to dimple around day 40 which I know is normal, but my main question is that the egg shell is still very hard and doesn't seem to be softening up much, this has me worrying that the shell is too hard for the hatchlings to break themselves. Do you guys think cutting them would be necessary for this instance? I have read hundreds of threads but haven't found one addressing this problem, I'm just so worried that they won't be able to pip themselves and drown in the egg.

Also, the past three days we have had a terrible heat wave (100*) and maintaining temps in the reptile room has been hard. The eggs have gone up to 94* twice and I tried to get them back down to a healthy temp as gradually as possible but do you guys think these temps will cause any problems??

This is my first time using this forum and I'm going to try to post a picture of what they look like today:

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