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VERY CONCERNED! Help please! :(

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karipatra

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Hey everyone!

I am very concerned right now. I have had 3 eggs hatch, but the last one was 3 days ago.

And now in the last 2 days, I have lost 4 hatchlings in egg. It's almost like the yolk or inner egg starts going cloudy, then it overtakes the baby and it's dead within 12 hours. :sad:

Nothing had changed other than removing the airstone to hatch the bbs, which I was told was okay. I rinsed it well and it's now back in the container.

Any idea what it is this is? I'm very concerned that it's going to take the other ones as well! :(

Any ideas? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
 
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I'm not sure if i read this correctly, but I think you're saying the last egg to hatch was three days ago? If so, I would have freed the larvae out of any remaining unhatched eggs. I make my eggs hatch within 48 hours of each other, at most they go 72 hours. If this is the case for you, I'd break open those eggs now.
 
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The eggs that are still viable with hatchlings in them are still moving, as I gently touched them with a clean spoon. I asked on a post earlier about how long it can take eggs to hatch and had people tell me that it can take weeks for all of the eggs to hatch, and with my temp being 62 degrees, that seemed okay.

I'm just stumped and don't want to lose the rest. :confused:
 
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I had some early hatchers. They turned out to be my premmies, they had deformities so needed to be euthanized after a while. The others hatched mostly four days following. I did have infertile eggs that I removed while they were developing. They were cloudy.
 
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Kerry M said:
I had some early hatchers. They turned out to be my premmies, they had deformities so needed to be euthanized after a while. The others hatched mostly four days following. I did have infertile eggs that I removed while they were developing. They were cloudy.
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How do you euthanize an axie?
 
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