Shrinking and Collapsing Egg (~Day 60)

I know that this is normal when it is about to hatch, but how long will this last until the hatchling actually emerges from the egg?

EDIT: Infact it is actually exactly Day 60 at the time I posted this I also forgot to mention sweating And when I say collapsing, I meant denting.

The gecko inside is absorbing the yolk which is what causes the denting. Usually it takes just a couple days and the hatchling will start to pip from the shell. If this is your first time breeding just remember to let the hatchling come all the way out of its egg before you remove it to make sure it has absorbed all of the egg yolk. I usually give them a day after they have come out of the egg. Congrats!!

I have this one egg that has been three days showing signs of hatching while its clutchmate is two days. Still nothing, is it still good?

Should be I guess only time will tell.

In my experience hatching when they start to hatch to come out within hours or less iv also had eggs that looked great but 65 days went by in the incubator and so broke an egg and it was just full off gross black ooze.


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Yeah that first clutch went bad. It's been past a week and it started smelling really bad and getting a tad moldy. I opened them both up to find two fully developed babies... Not sure if I should have waited more that time but it seems as if they couldn't get out of the egg.

In good news the second clutch for one egg was successful and hatched a leo just today. Although unfortunately the clutchmate of that leo seems to be going on the same process as the first clutch showing "signs" of hatching days ago. The one that hatched just today just appeared as I checked, without the sweating, denting or what-not signs on the egg.

What may be the cause of these leos fully developing and not emerging from the eggs? My thoughts could be that I don't even have an incubator, although the thing is they fully develop and don't come out of the egg, also the one that hatched doesn't seem to have any abnormalities. My second thought is the mother not having enough nourishment for she just barely hits the mark of about 45g - 50g, one of the most probable reasons I'm guessing. The male is fine since he reaches past 50g even and is really healthy looking and acting. Have any of you experienced a similar problem, having eggs not hatch at all but the leos are fully developed? Have you found the cause of it? Please let me know, thanks.

It's very hard to tell. Certainly without an incubator the chances of temperature fluctuations (even in your climate) are greater, which can lead to defects. I have also had some females that seemed to produce a large number of geckos that didn't survive or geckos with defects. Needless to say, these females were retired from breeding. I do remember one summer coming to my incubator and finding that 3 geckos had hatched. Two were dead out of the egg and the third was fine.

Aliza

It looks as if the cluthmate of the one that hatched won't make it... Two factors I believe that is causing this is temperature fluctuations or not enough nourishment in the mother...

I'm not sure if it would be the nourishment in the mother since the one that hatched seems to be perfectly fine and healthy.

Possibly could be the temperature fluctuating but it doesn't totally mean that it can't hatch, right? How big are the temperature fluctuations that are considered really bad?