Nasty egg

My last clutch of the season was 5 eggs from a black pastel het hypo girl. 4 were fine and dandy and one was about half the size plus a boob egg. This egg had a good bit of mold on it toward the middle and end. I thought it wouldn't make it the whole time, but it was the first to pip out of the clutch. Her mates were out so I thought I'd cut and inspect.

It was twisted up around the fleshy wad shown, she may have been stuck, but was disconnected from the "yolk". It crawled out from the flesh wad shown. I'm wondering if it could have been a twin also and the one didn't form? The snake seems fine just really light at 25 grams. I'm really just wondering what this fleshy wad is. It doesn't seem like yolk it's really fleshy, I squeezed it and white puss came out. I haven't seen anything like it. I've seen pictures and videos of breeders removing the neonite and tieing off the umbilicus but it doesn't seem to be goupy like an egg yolk would be. Any thoughts?

Almost looks like egg yolk gone bad? In the top pic, the little blob at the bottom looks like good yolk but the rest just looks like crap. If it is alll attached together i would say its a bad yolk but i have never seen it do that before...

It was really fleshy, I was thinking maybe a fungus got into the yolk and fed off it and grew with the snake. The baby has a swollen belly and a little remnant of umbilicus. Hopefully it makes it, it's been pretty active. Sorry about the cellphone pics. I was inspecting the mass further and it just slid right out of the egg. I held it, it was firm and fleshy, kind of like a mushroom and was actually shaped like one too, but I think that may have been due to the neonite taking up the space.

Just keep an eye on the little fella and make sure you get food in him pretty quick since he is so small.

I lean more toward its being an undeveloped twin.

Disgusting as always, just looking at the picture makes me think of the smell, gag. Good luck to your little guy.

One of my corns laid her eggs in her hide, I let them incubate in the cage and added moisture as needed, I didn't realize the ones on the bottom got way too wet. Long story short, after the rest hatched except the two on the bottom, I cut those two open and found something very similar, the mass appeared to me like a severely underdeveloped embryo (it had died in the egg early in development).

It actually didn't smell too bad, and the baby's swollen belly is receding but it lost a gram. Its umbilicus is off and closed. I thought up real close I seen some eye pigment. This one will be a miracle baby, boob egg, half the size of a normal, moldy! undeveloped twin and no defects. Fingers crossed!

Originally Posted by redarms

It actually didn't smell too bad, and the baby's swollen belly is receding but it lost a gram. Its umbilicus is off and closed. I thought up real close I seen some eye pigment. This one will be a miracle baby, boob egg, half the size of a normal, moldy! undeveloped twin and no defects. Fingers crossed!

I meant eye pigment in the mass.