Do you separate the bad eggs from the good?

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Llehctim

Discussion Starter · 16 d ago

Just wondering if people prefer to leave them as is and not risk damaging the developing eggs or try and remove the bad ones to prevent moulding over the good ones? It seems to me like different people prefer different approaches.

Ive currently got two developing from the last clutch (first three clutches were all infertile) and I’m not sure how easy it would be to remove the bad eggs that are touching them. I think I will probably leave as is to avoid damaging the devolving ones unless I start to see mild creep up.
The two good ones are circled below

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bulbophyllum

· #2 · 15 d ago

I've just taken a razor blade and scraped the bad eggs away. Just start on the bad egg not the developing one. I've never messed one up.

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Tijl

· #3 · 15 d ago

Never removed them, never experienced any other eggs going bad..

The 'egg infection story' is a hoax ime

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N. Veen

· #4 · 15 d ago

Did both, but depends on the way the egg is molding.

If it is molding inside the membrane, i did not seperate. If the molding is outside on the membrane then i did seperate to avoid the chance the mold spreads.

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Fahad

· #5 · 15 d ago

I've left them with no issues in the past, but also out of fastidiousness used a small eyedropper to carefully suck up the bad eggs from the egg mass. That takes some finesse if you don't want to damage the good ones. Either method has worked for me.

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SpaceMan

· #6 · 14 d ago

I usually don't mess with my eggs at all. I find that I have more issues with eggs the more I do to them. If I pull my eggs at all anymore, I usually leave them in their film canister or tadpool removable leaf in a petri dish until they're ready to swim free.

If I see infertile or molding eggs in a batch, sometimes I'll use a bit of diluted meth. blue on them, but I can't say I have evidence of better outcomes one way or the other.

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