Getting worried! She opened her egg hours ago.

[Butterfly_babe4200]

She opened her egg before 3:30 and its now 9:00 and she has not put her head out yet. The egg is ripped in two places. Her mate hatched last night. What should I do? I don't see breathing movement.

 

[acpart]

In general the best bet is to give the baby the chance to get out of the egg itself. Sometimes they open the egg and don't make it. I once found 2 that had hatched and died. If this happens, it's likely that the baby isn't strong enough to have a reasonable life. In my opinion it's much better to leave it alone and find out that it died hatching, than to "save" it and end up with a sickly gecko, or one that you have to actively put down a few days or weeks later.

Aliza

 

[Butterfly_babe4200]

I opened the egg and she had not absorbed her yolk sack yet at all so I think she popped the egg and drown. Sad she was to be my second baby ever.

 

[bobandrita]

i am so sorry u lost your baby