Hi guys. As you may be able to tell by the title of this thread, I've been having some problems. Back on the 2nd my spider het pied girl laid a clutch of 8 beautiful eggs. I was really excited! I had a small homemade incubator all ready for them and put them in as soon as I found them, but now I'm having issues.


The day before yesterday, sometime between my morning check on the eggs and my night time check, the thermostat I use for my incubator (a herpstat 2 redline) had an error (I think it said "Invaid Temp" or something) and cut off power to the incubator. By the time I got to it the temp was down to 74 degrees F.


I couldn't figure out a way to get the herpstat to stop making the error, so I unpugged it and plugged the heat source in directly to an outlet to let it warm up. It took a good 12 hours to rise above 80 degrees, probably another 12 to get to proper temperatures. I have it on a different thermostat now, but the eggs are dimpled and not looking so great.


Is there any chance that they're still alive? I'd like to save them, if at all possible. My girl was paired with a leopard het pied male and I was hoping for some really nice combos, but after a temp drop so low and for so long I'm afraid there's not much hope for them. I've been wondering if I should just put them in the freezer and then throw them out.

Pictures:
Before

This was taken the day they were laid, shortly after putting them in the incubator.

After

This was taken today. I didn't want to disturb them while I was waiting for the incubator to warm up.

To be clear, I'm not incubating them at 84 or 86 degrees, that's just what the thermometer reads while the incubator is open. The thermostat is set to 89.

So what do you think? Dead?