First Pips of the year.

[kellysballs]

Congrats on the pips.

But isn't placing slits in the eggs of group B going to interfere with your experiment? You won't know now when they would have actually begun dimpling and hatching on their own because you've intervened.

In short yes but only for this replicate. However the day this half of the group slit there eggs enough to emerge I will have some sort of idea when to expect the other guys incubated at 86f. I have never incubated at this low of a temp. Before and I have also never been restricted on the moisture of the vermiculite.