About the eggs...

[frost1375]

Can an infertile egg still have pink inside? My gecko just laid her second clutch. Neither of the two did she lay in the laybox. She just laid them right out on the tile. The first clutch I saw her lay, so I got them right away. This time she laid during the night so the eggs were kind of stuck to the tile and felt really dry. The first clutch of eggs I could see the little pink circle, but after a few weeks they dried out. I'm just wondering if all the eggs she is going to lay are going to be infertile. If so, can I put her back in with the male so they can mate and hopefully produce fertile eggs or is that not how it happens? Any help would be great. Thank you.

 

[BalloonzForU]

If she's laying infertiles yes put the male and her back together.

 

[frost1375]

The thing is... I'm not compltely sure they are infertile or if I'm just not incubating them correctly. They do have the pink bullseye, but the first batch just shriveled up. Now this new clutch is a little dented, but there is plenty of humidity. And there is the pink bullseye. So I'm not sure what to do.

 

[MichaelJ]

if they are shriveling up than then it sounds like your egg incubating medium is too dry.. although you may have good humidity; the substrate may be so dry it's sucking the moisture up and it's not enough to keep the egg at it's proper moisture level.

I have a female that didn't mate at all this season because I wanted her to gain weight first. She's been laying infertile eggs all season; probably because she smelled the males phermones or the other females gravid.. Anyhoo; her eggs don't shrivel up.. they just eventually become moldy or burst.

I agree with Felicia; put the male back in with just to be on the safe side. I put my male back in with each female once a month to be sure they female has a fresh supply of sperm; although they hold it , adding it monthly will help fertility.


Hope that helps.