See, I thought that the verm was too dry. It does not feel like you can wring it out or anything. I know why the eggs look so moist though; condensation was/is forming on the dead eggs, and the one that you can see in the bottom-right in the first pic, actually has a pool of liquid on one of its dents.. not sure if maybe it got a small hole, or if it is just from it being rotten. This is definately not from condensation in the tub, because the inner lid is bone-dry; this was my first thought, but no water has dripped from the tub lid to the eggs. I have decided to throw them out and keep the one that still looks good. This is a tough choice but I am not going to be incubating dead eggs thinking they will live.
I have a tub ready for Ginger's clutch, that is substrateless; water under a plastic grid for the eggs to set on. I figure that is foolproof; the eggs will not touch the water. I am getting some perlite like someone suggested to prevent water from sloshing when the tub is lifted up.
I think it was FreakieFrog whose snakes got thermal burns when his FW spiked.. I am Not 100% sure if it was him though; if not, I apologise.
I hate to blame myself, but I did switch the eggs to this new container on that saturday; maybe that caused the temps to spike? I didn't think that it'd make a difference, but I had to do this because the only container I had that day that could accomodate the piled eggs, was one that needed a sheet of glass for a lid, and it was not going to retain humidity properly. I bought the Ziploc tubs not factoring-in that the eggs could be in a pile that I could not seperate.. stupid on my part, but they did have Tiny yellow spots on them before the spike happened, and now hearing Tim say that they look like they were bad for quite some time (they were laid on the first) I do not feel so bad. For whatever reason, they were defective before the thermal spike. Now this remaining egg does not look rotten, so I am going to keep it and sit it out.. I am happy to say that I have my second incubator on and ready for Ginger's brood. I used a big styro cooler and put the incubator top over it, and this has been holding temps steady with the egg tub in..
I appreciate you guys/gals so much..