21 Eggs looks all duds :(

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So exciting!
 

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Keep incubating anyway. I'm terrible at candling. Sometimes it's obvious, but other times I've had what I thought were duds hatch out into lovely babies.

Do you already know what to do when they hatch? Brooder box and all?
 

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Yes ive hatch them amd give them a little nursery til egg sack disolves, but ive noticed a lot of fuzzy white cotton like mold on most of them but they dont stink so i wipe of fuz every few days, y do they have mold?
 

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They shouldn't have mold. My sulcata laid eggs around the same time and yours did and my eggs are very white with no mold and I candled them last night and the veins/embryo were easily noticable. If you candle them soon and don't see any veins within the eggs it may be cause for concern. Give us an update! lol take care
 

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Ok so still no hatching just cracks with white fuze this clutch is prolly a goner but im incubating anyways
 

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The white fuzz could be mold growing because the eggs are leaking and cracked. I also have no experience hatching this species
 

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Ok so for a late update all those eggs were infertile, but she did lay a 2nd clutch 1 month later and this morning i found this....
 

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