Yesterday I noticed that one of my assistant accidently left the lid of my incubating Oustalet's eggs open. By the condition of the incubation medium, it looks like it's been dry for a few days. I found almost half of the eggs shriveled up and dried. The rest I savaged and remoistened the vermiculite. I did however to my surprize found 2 that have hatched but they are very weak. I decided to transfer them to a hatchery tank with high humidity. I strange part of all this is when I opened the dessicated dried eggs, I found many of them were in different stages of development!! That is Very strange to me since the these eggs are from the same clutch laid one of my females. Anyone has any input or any thoughts on this? I really hope the 2 neonates survive and maybe more will be hatching soon. Here are some photos of the 2 babies. I will take more photos once I get them going. Wish me luck!
Thanks for looking and any feedback or advice regarding this event would be greatly appreciated.
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