I finally did everything correctly and got my shiny Staryu thanks to Riski. She's awesome and has been extremely generous and helpful. Thanks again. I wanted to try doing the RNG for IV's now. I was reading through her guide of that, and it said that I would have to know both of the parents IV's, which I didn't write down prior to depositing them. My question is this: If I take them out of the daycare to write down their stats and whatnot, will that disrupt anything going on? The egg is obviously going to be shiny with the correct ability and nature, but I just don't want to risk messing anything up (If taking the parents out will mess the process up).
Well, you can't take the parents out until you pick up the egg, so in theory, you could pick up the egg, take the parents out check their IV's, turn the game off without saving.
That won't mess anything up, as long as you saved before picking the egg up in general.