Help please! Hatching detached air cell

I just remembered to respond to the temp. Idk what incubator you are using. 101 doesn't make me nervous as long as that's the max temp. I see it occasionally when spot testing the incubator.

I do wonder if there is a better location to finish up the hatch: one without temp fluctuations- no garage or basement.
 
Sometimes in the middle of the day when it gets hot outside it changes the temp up to 101 inside the bator. So I constantly have to baby it and when it gets too high like that I'm used to opening the lid to let out the heat but I'm unsure what to do now it should be lockdown day! I'm in middle of day 18 right now for the brown egg the blue and green are a day ahead. The last time I hatched eggs I had the bator sat inside of a mini fridge with the lid proped open and it kept the outside temp from fluctuating the inside temp.
I have a fan in there and I have one thermometer that is a node taped to the bator to be at the level of the top of the eggs and then I have a Vicks inside that tells me temp and humidity.

Im wondering because the lady told me she'd send me more eggs when I was ready;
Are you telling me that if I had turned up the humidty that the air cell would have shrunk? I kept it down for the other two eggs their shells are so thick the air cells for them arent where they should be for Day 18.

I wish you had posted some pics. Though we use that visual aid of day 7/15/18, I have found that an air cell that was about 1/3 smaller size can be fine (among the lower ones, that draw down deeper). I certainly have found that it's rarely worth trying to put in very low humidity to draw more at the end (before day 14, I believe, moisture that is pulled from the egg, is drawn from the albumin... after that, it is drawn out/ potentially dehydrating the chick).

When the next eggs arrive, take your cues from the eggs, as they begin to incubate. If you see large air cells developing, increase the humidity. How many of this batch were fertile?
 
I have the same problem now at day 17 with a saddle shaped aircell duck egg. Having candled the egg yesterday everything looks normal, duckling moving but poor liitle thing must be quite cramped in there. Is there any way I can get rid of it at all?
 

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