Calling all opinions. I have been running two incubators side by side---a brinsea mini and a brinsea maxi. The mini was new, and I had two successful hatches in the maxi before. I candled around day 14 and noticed that the development of the embryos in the maxi seemed to be lagging behind the mini. I bought a back up probe thermometer and discovered the maxi was running 95.9 while it said 99.5 on the display. So, I can only guess, but maybe it had been running below temp for 2 weeks. I did adjust the temp upwards to compensate for the discrepancy and get the machine where it is supposed to be temp wise. All of my eggs in the mini hatched, but over the course of discovering the lower temps in the maxi, I also discovered 9 eggs had dead in shell embryos probably ranging from day 11 to day 18. Now, it's day 24 and I have no pips in the 5 remaining eggs. I can see movement in 2 of them, but not in the other 3 by candling. I did do the float test and they all floated just about 5% of the egg above the water line. I have put them back in the machine. What would you do? How long would you wait on them? Any advice would be appreciated.
Kiddo was sad. We told her the odds were slim.
You gave it your best shot and that's what counts.
