Birth defect?

sammer021486

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My second hatchling has toes that do not seem to be properly developed. If you look at the back foot you will see the toes closest to the body are very close together. All of the feet look like this on this hatchling, the two toes closest to the body are close together.

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acpart

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It's hard to see from the picture, but it looks as if the leo has fewer toes than it should. I hatched several leos last season with a range of foot problems. The least severe was a normally developed leg with a foot that had 2 toes. This did not affect the leo at all. The most severe was a leo with normal back legs, but very tiny front legs. Someone on the forum adopted her and as far as I know she's doing well.

Aliza
 

Kellyr

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When mine hatched out, they were still wet a few hours after coming out of the egg, and they had several toes sort of sticking together that way... it worried me but after a while they separated when they dried off.... and everything turned out to be fine.
 

Kristi23

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When mine hatched out, they were still wet a few hours after coming out of the egg, and they had several toes sort of sticking together that way... it worried me but after a while they separated when they dried off.... and everything turned out to be fine.

I was going to say this, too. I've had the same thing happen.
 

spykerherps

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Some times it just happens. I have had both. geckos born with the toes looking like they are stuck together and separating after they dry off. and one that had a couple webbed looking toes on her back leg. neither parent had it. So I would chock it up to either incubation deformity or vitamin deficiency at conception.
 

sammer021486

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there is a good possibility that the defect could be with the incubator. I think that I have lost the other 3 clutches. I am using a hovabator and because it is spring and there is no central heating/cooling system in the house where I am keeping the eggs. If the temps in the house change, so do the temps in the bator.

Shouldn't be a vitamin defiency because I dust the crickets with a multi-vitamin weekly.
 

acpart

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there is a good possibility that the defect could be with the incubator. I think that I have lost the other 3 clutches. I am using a hovabator and because it is spring and there is no central heating/cooling system in the house where I am keeping the eggs. If the temps in the house change, so do the temps in the bator.

Shouldn't be a vitamin defiency because I dust the crickets with a multi-vitamin weekly.

If you don't already have one, get a proportional thermostat for the hobovator. THis will work as long as the temperature in the house doesn't get higher than the temperature you're incubating at. In that case you have to find somewhere cooler. I will be moving my incubator to the basement once it gets hot.

ALiza
 

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