Eggs always increase in size?

[JordanAng420]

I was just wondering if eggs always increase in size before hatching. By day 30 at 89-90 deg. I would think they would have gotten bigger by now?

 

[Halley]

I have had some that do and some that don't. And I have only hatched 6 geckos, so I would assume a lot do and a lot don't.

 

[JordanAng420]

Thanks Nick...I was searching some other threads, and it seems that if you have a smaller/younger female the eggs themselves could be smaller than usual and might not grow too much larger. Hopefully that is the case...

 

[efx*]

Yea, Some get bigger, but its kind of hard to notice them getting bigger when you look at them every single day

 

[wings2fly]

I have had one egg this year that I could not tell if the egg grew, but it hatched. The hatchling was smaller than the other geckos I hatched too.

Carin

 

[Kristi23]

All of my fertile eggs have grown so far. I start noticing them getting bigger after a few weeks in the incubator.

 

[JordanAng420]

How LONG before they hatched did they grow? A couple days? A week?

 

[brad.a.c]

Good luck with them!

 

[fallen_angel]

I have noticed that most eggs get noticeably larger days before hatching, but not all do

 

[Kristi23]

Mine have gotten larger after about 3 weeks in the incubator at any temp. The ones in the male incubator might have gotten bigger after 2 weeks, but the 84/85 incubator eggs seem to get larger about 3 weeks in. I haven't noticed them getting too much bigger after that.

 

[JordanAng420]

I'm pretty sure mine are larger, but like Dane said, it's hard to notice when I look at them every day. I measured them yesterday, and they're an inch long.

 

[JordanAng420]

I figured, if it still glows red and there are veins it's still good. That seems to be the general rule. I'm just worried about not seeing the actual embryo take up space and/or move...
And my gravid female has started to dig again...eventually i'll get this right

 

[fallen_angel]

what kind of eggs are they? albinos are difficult to see inside of the egg, and we have some mack snow patternless eggs that are very difficult to see anything in

 

[JordanAng420]

Hmmm....both parents are shtct-b. That's an idea, i've seen a few albino hatchlings and that may in fact be the case. My 2 year old male is from a breeder in Illinois, and if I remember right he's het for SOMETHING (Bell Albino...??), I forgot what though. Thanks for your responses

 

[yummybunny]

Speaking of different types of babies in the eggs and how easy/hard are they to see, when do the baby start getting it's pigments?

Eggs incubated at higher temps get their pigments sooner, since they hatch faster, but what week do they get their pigments?

 

[JordanAng420]

I would LOVE to know the answer to this as well....

 

[yummybunny]

I am concerned about this because I have two eggs that candled fertle. Week 1, they still appeared fertile, then I candled them Sunday, I saw nothing. It is not yellow, but see through white. They have grown in size and are feel like a fertile egg still. There is no mold. Could that had meant the babies died. They are clutch mates. The parents are a chocolate albino and a carrottail.

I also have two other eggs, that were laid days after. They candle red, but I do not have to candle them, because they are red(literally). The parents are a regular and another carrottail.

Do infertile eggs grow in size too?

 

[fallen_angel]

Speaking of different types of babies in the eggs and how easy/hard are they to see, when do the baby start getting it's pigments?

I am not completely sure, but we had a baby die two weeks before it was due, and I opened the egg to find a developed embryo with no pigment. So I guess based upon that, it would be somewhere in the last two weeks

I am concerned about this because I have two eggs that candled fertle. Week 1, they still appeared fertile, then I candled them Sunday, I saw nothing. It is not yellow, but see through white. They have grown in size and are feel like a fertile egg still. There is no mold. Could that had meant the babies died. They are clutch mates. The parents are a chocolate albino and a carrottail.

in my experience, i've seen eggs candling white when they are a week (or so) before hatch.. could that be what it is?

Do infertile eggs grow in size too?

I would say that they do.. we had 6 eggs that were growing in size and we never candled them because they looked good and were growing.. around their due date, we candled them, and they just glowed yellow with nothing inside.. all six :main_no:

 

[Tanner505Geckos]

some of mine get large and some dont its wierd

 

[JordanAng420]

Really?? They start to candle white when they're getting ready?? So maybe this is what it is. Because 2 days ago it was covered in veins. I'm PRAYING this is the case.