Little black dot?

[Yellow Turtle01]

So, my female RES layed an egg, and tortadise was very helpful, but despite the info I was reading (big chance it might be viable, but RES are so common AND there is a bit of rehome crisis right now[even though I'd keep him]) and was told, I really haven't made a decision on whether to keep it or not! So today just now, I decided to take a peek at the little thing, and noticed a small black dot right by the ends? It's really hard to see, but I can try to get pic, if you guys need one! The shell also feels much softer than it did originally? Could someone tell me how RES egg develop?
I have him in a little plastic container with moist sand in a room that stays 75'. (closet right by the heater, and I checked to make sure) I'm really starting to get concerned for the little guy's health, and I'm not sure how I could just get rid of him now!
Anyone have any suggestions/thoughts on the dot?

 

[russian/sulcata/tortoise]

i no nothings about egg development because the eggs that my russian lays are never fertile, but i found this it has pictures
http://www.russiantortoise.net/egg_development.htm

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Thanks (not russians, Red Eared Sliders )but (call me over paranoid) I just went to check on it again, and it had literally exploded! The end is all cracked open, I thought the shell felt soft This sucks, I haven't seen any more eggs from her yet
Why did it do this? To hot? To cold? Wasn't fertile?

 

[russian/sulcata/tortoise]

wow Yellow Turtle I'm so sorry that happened to your egg

 

[stojanovski92113]

Oh no...I'm sorry!!!!!!! I don't have an answer, I have yet to have any eggs!

 

[Moozillion]

I have never bred any turtles or tortoises, so I have no knowledge to share.

But I'm really sorry you lost the little thing.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

wow Yellow Turtle I'm so sorry that happened to your egg

Thanks... I don't know what happened??

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Oh no...I'm sorry!!!!!!! I don't have an answer, I have yet to have any eggs!

I hope you get some, though!

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

I have never bred any turtles or tortoises, so I have no knowledge to share.

But I'm really sorry you lost the little thing.

Thank you This is really going to stink if I figure out he was actually fertile!

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

@tortadise / @Anthony P ?

 

[tortadise]

Photos would be great. Are there air holes in the container?

 

[kathyth]

No matter what happened, i'm sorry the egg exploded. Maybe we can all learn from this.
I have not had a turtle lay egg, yet.
Sorry.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Photos would be great. Are there air holes in the container?

Yes, hold on, I'll get some

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Oky-

-That's the end where it cracked open. It doesn't smell AT ALL (like the yolk) which makes me think it wasn't decaying or anything
Another of it there-

-and this is the little black dot I was talking about-


-it's wayyyy more pronounced in real life, but I think you can still see it
It's actually INSIDE the egg, so it's not a smudge or anything Diagonisis?

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Photos would be great. Are there air holes in the container?

Yes. It's just a classic plastic container.. short, wide. I filled it about haf way with sand, and nestled the little thing right on top, because I didn't want to smother it (but, I mean, eggs in the wild get layed in the ground) and moistened it with water so that the lid was slightly condensed.
Yesterday when I posted, was the first time I noticed the dot, and I was poking around (I know, I know, no touchy ) and the shell felt a little softer than usual, and then later it had opened up.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

No matter what happened, i'm sorry the egg exploded. Maybe we can all learn from this.
I have not had a turtle lay egg, yet.
Sorry.

Thanks I don't know what I did wrong! I hope you have luck, if they do

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Could some sand have poked it? They weren't very big granules, because I don't have any vermiculite.

 

[Yvonne G]

The egg wasn't alive. When something dead sits a while in a closed chamber (egg shell) gasses build up and eventually the interior pressure gets to be more than the shell can hold and it explodes.

 

[tortadise]

Yeah it was no good obviously. As Yvonne stated they will explode.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

The egg wasn't alive. When something dead sits a while in a closed chamber (egg shell) gasses build up and eventually the interior pressure gets to be more than the shell can hold and it explodes.

Wow, okay that makes me feel way better! So I didn't kill him?
Do you know what the little dot was?