Help!!!!!!!!! eggs laid over night and was not ready

[Ccrashca069]

Last night I saw one of my females hide in the humidity hide. This morning I went too check up on all the leopards and found 2 nice round eggs. I have no incibator right now. I was not expecting eggs untill after the new year. What can I do?

 

[Greyscale_Geckos]

Use any method you possibly can to make an incubator until you can get a real one. Try getting some perlite (from any garden store like Lowe's or Home Depot), do the water proportioning, and put that into a rubbermaid container (or one like that). Do not turn the eggs, simply move them gently to the container, set them in and then prepare them for a temp incubator.

To make a temp incubator you can use an old cooler (the white and blue/red Coleman type or a Styrofoam one ) and put a heating pad in the bottom (fastened to the underside of the small shelf that will be mentioned next), make a small shelf (with something /thin/ like peg board or a sheet of plastic/glass, and then put the egg container on top. Make sure your heating pad is hooked up to a thermostat or a rheostat and put it on 80-83 degrees Fahrenheit for girls, 85-87 for a mix of genders, and 88-90 for boys. Mostly your main concern will be keeping the temperature steady!

You can also use a cooler with water in the bottom and put in a fish tank heater. Then put in a rack to put the eggs (in their container) on.

Whichever is easiest and less time consuming for you should be done.

Put the rubbermaid container (lid on) onto the shelf and set it there, then close the incubator tightly. Make sure the incubator is in a place where the temperature remains steady in your house.

Here's a video that can walk you through prepping the container which the eggs will be in : http://youtube.com/watch?v=1wyOZ_DE8PQ .

EDIT: Once you have you temp incubator set up go order an incubator off of LLLreptile.com. (If you want one that is premade, sometimes homemade incubators work really well too!)

 

[malt_geckos]

We called up John and helped him. Just told him to put the eggs in some perlite that's a bit moist (clumps like a dry snow ball...will easily fall apart when you let it go.) Put the eggs half way in it careful to not turn the eggs over. Then close the container air tight and store somewhere that's 80-85 degrees until he gets his incubator.

 

[Ccrashca069]

Yes and thank you very much Matt and Mallorie The 2 eggs look great still. I put them in a 16 quart sweater box with the 3 inches of damp organic Vermiculite. Spent more time looking for it then my shopping I had to do lmao. Going to keep the eggs in my boxturtle wooden cage untill I get the incubator. I looked at the feed store today but they were out. My friend Joe has one so he is testing it tonight to make sure it works .