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HELP!! my incubator got unplugged

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I have two small clutches that were laid about a month or so and my room mate being careless accidently unplugged it last night around 2 am.. i didnt notice it was unplugged till about 6:30 pm .. the temp was 80 degrees when i caught it.. are these eggs gone? i'm not sure how long they were that cold but the incubator isnt a great one but it isnt a bad one ether and has been holding heat fairly well.. all the sites i found said the min temp to keep the eggs at was 86.. if anyone can help me out with this i would appreciate it.. these are my first clutches of eggs and i would be devastated if just a little carelessness cost me them
 
Incubate them and find out, you've got nothing to lose. I bet you they will hatch just fine. Incubators can hold a temperature for a surprisingly long amount of time, and the substrate within each container holding the eggs can hold the temperature even longer. Also, the older the eggs are, the more forgiving they are to lower temperatures.
 
I am worried tho.. that they will end up with kinks or other genetic disorder .. the clutches were spider to normal.. and my spider now already has a pretty bad wobble.. i lovingly call him my her der or retard snake.. so i was already alittle worried about these clutches.. but i will cross my fingers.. if they hatch i will put some pics up
 
Kinks, to my knowledge, generally is a problem with them being too hot or too much fluctuation. I seriously would not worry too much about it. I think that you eggs may take a little longer to hatch, as in a day or two. Other then that I think they will probably be fine. Had a incubator problem last season with it being too cool and cut the eggs on day 62. Had I not cut the eggs and just left them be for an extra month they wouldve hatched out fine. :) Lost one because of the cut, the other three came out fine 30 days later. No kinks, just took them longer and they were smaller babies then I wouldve liked.
 
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