Advice Re Assisting Hatch of Possible Twins

[jajeanpierre]

After all my fretting over my incubator that was misbehaving, it seems my gracilior clutch might hatch after all! I just checked the box and was soooo disappointed to find one of the eggs deflating. Then I put on a better pair of glasses and saw a big slit in the egg! A few more look like they are getting ready to pip.

One egg was larger when laid and has grown to be a lot larger than the rest of the eggs. It is the egg to the right of the blue pin. It's larger size isn't quite so obvious because it is not laying flat any more. The egg that pipped is the one to the right of the yellow pin.

I suspect there might be twins in the large egg. Do I do anything to assist? If both babies don't make it to an opening in the shell before the circulatory system on the inside of the egg shuts down, I would expect the one not at the opening would suffocate.

With twins, do both babies "tend" to pip at opposite ends of the egg?

I've included a picture of the clutch right after it was laid. The two pictures are in the same orientation. I couldn't figure out a way to photo shop the second picture and draw a circle around the larger egg, but all the eggs are in the pretty much in the same spots. (Larger egg is second row from the bottom, second egg from the left.)

 

[ponders]

I had Siamese twins, that pipped, but didn't hatch. https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/siamese-twin-quads-caution-graphic-photos.133839/
And I also had twins that never hatched, but I found two tiny babies when I cut the egg open. I've also had a normal baby come out of a giant egg like that too. Not sure if that will help

 

[kinyonga]

The main worry with twins is that one baby will pip into the other sac and not be able to breath...and unfortunately there is no way to tell if this is happening or not.