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So my spider female which was bred to my butter pastel male laid a clutch last week of 5 eggs. About two days ago i realized the egg on top was starting to smell bad and had started to turn blue in one area. i seperated it from the rest and today i checked on it again and it had only gotten worse, when i candled it the light almost didnt shine through and it looked yellow so i decided to throw it away. I cut it open and what was inside was a solid yellow mass and the area outside the egg that was blue had moved inside the egg. Does anyone know what causes this? I forgot to mention that i candled all the eggs when i first got the clutch and they where all viable, the egg in question was the worst looking one but it had some vascular development. Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
Sooooo many things could cause it. Many times it's probably a miscarriage-type situation--that the egg wasn't going to make it. Sometimes it's a weaker egg and incubation temp swings affect it. Sometimes humidity.

I'd guess that it was not meant to live anyway. Good luck with the rest!
 
Sometimes the eggs just fail to thrive, it seems though that the mold may have infiltrated the egg. This could have been the reason the egg died, or the egg dying could be the reason the mold was inside. Hopefully the rest of the clutch will be fine.
Good luck
 
It actually means an unfertilized egg. It happens especially if you don't do any brumation or if it is her first clutch. You didn't do anything wrong. Next time try candling them first. Some times even if you get one with no veining you can't separate them from the stack. Be very careful and unless the bad one is affecting the rest, leave it alone.
 
Whoops, just saw the part about candling, usually an infertile egg has no or very little veining.
 
This wasnt her first clutch but she was alittle smaller than i would have liked(1800 grams). When i candled them it did have veins but very little. I agree with you it must have been infertile from the start
 
shellboa said:
It actually means an unfertilized egg. It happens especially if you don't do any brumation or if it is her first clutch. You didn't do anything wrong. Next time try candling them first. Some times even if you get one with no veining you can't separate them from the stack. Be very careful and unless the bad one is affecting the rest, leave it alone.
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Brumation? You do realize this is ball pythons, right?

OP, some eggs just don't make it. Could have been any number of things, not necessarily something you did or didn't do.

Good luck with the rest of the clutch.
 
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