Quote Originally Posted by alainphillip View Post
Have a small incubator and other eggs are in there now.. Transferred them to a Squamata tub under flex watt @88f. Read from some books to safely incubate them @88-90f. Kevin mcurley's book. The previous clutch 1 peeped @ day 53, second clutch 1 peeped day 50, every time 1 peeps out from the clutch, I try cutting them open.. Just this 3rd clutch was kind problematic. It's day 54 then none is peeping.. Then one of the eggs had a nipple kinda part that had molds.. So tried touching the egg then it was kinda hard so opened it and the baby ball was dead.. It's like the yolk has hardened or had a consistency of a glue. So I decided to cut them all open. All are incubated around 88-89f. Humidity 90-95%. Do u think wat I did is bad?
Cutting at Day 54 isn't necessarily bad (I do it), but you don't want to force them to come out of the egg unless you can see a problem, or one is taking many days longer than the others in the same clutch to come out (which could indicate a problem). This clutch shouldn't bother any other eggs in your incubator, as long as it is in its own, enclosed, egg tub. Oh, and throw out the bad egg if it isn't attached to the good ones.