Egg Sweating for 24hr+

[Hopefull Monster Geckos]

Ok so I have an egg that has been sweating for over 24 hours and I have candled it and I cannot see anything moving inside, it possible that it has died in the egg as about a week ago there was a power outage for about 5 hours. I wanted to know what you guts would do, leave it alone or pip the egg.

 

[houseape57]

Oh please leave it alone and let nature take its course. If its sweating you prob have a baby ready to hatch. Near hatching time most of mine you cant see anything in the egg.

 

[Hopefull Monster Geckos]

It has now been more then 48 hours and there is a bit of mold on it and the egg is still sweating...

 

[ElapidSVT]

i don't pip mine. i'm a bit of a Darwinist and feel that if an animal is not able to get itself out of its own egg, it's not fit to survive/breed.

good luck!
rob

 

[fallen_angel]

This has happened to me before.. I ended up pipping the egg after waiting 12 hours I believe, I'm sorry to say the baby had already passed I choose to pip if the egg doesn't seem like it's going to make it, simply to see what morph it would have been so I know the percentages of what I've produced and to see if there's anything out of the ordinary. It's very saddening but can be interesting too. When this happened to me, the baby actually had three eyes and two heads, so I knew then that it wouldn't have survived outside of the egg anyway.