Last clutch of 2009

SFgeckos

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The last clutch of 2009 hatching!

Interesting story with this clutch:

About 80 days ago, I caught a female eclipse laying two fertile eggs as I was on my way out of the door to leave town for an extended trip. Thinking that they might desiccate while I was away, I put the two eggs into an empty deli cup with a slightly moist paper towel, then I apparently put them into a kitchen cabinet (why I didn't put them into the incubator I don't know!? I believe I was grabbing last minute snacks from the kitchen and accidentally placed the delicup inside the snack cabinet???), and left for my trip.

Somehow, I completely forgot about the eggs and only noticed them again about 3 weeks later! When I "rediscovered" the clutch, the eggs still appeared viable but slightly indented. I placed them into the incubator and tonight= SURPRISE!

You can actually see in the lower egg, that there is still a small piece of paper towel stuck to it! The temperature range that the eggs initially experienced (while in the kitchen cabinet) ranged from approximately 68F-76F. This is just an amazing example of how each individual egg appears so seemingly simple from the outside, but is internally complex enough to tolerate a range of conditions and still maintain homeostasis and normal development!

I've already decided to keep both female geckos (assuming both eggs hatch). Any name suggestions?

Jon
 
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SFgeckos

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The second egg just hatched! Only 9 days after her sister? Weirdest part is this clutch is from eclipse x eclipse!= 1 ECLIPSE and one junglish stripe het eclipse?

ALL my other eclipse x eclipse clutches= all eclipses...and I'm not talking about just a handful of clutches, I've produced dozens. What is going on?

Jon
 
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JordanAng420

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"Snacks" comes to mind for a name, seeing as that's how they ended up in the kitchen cabinet...as far as the jungle baby coming from eclipse parents, you stumped me on that one...
 
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Wow, that's an insane story. Those leos are definitely keepers if they could go through that. Congrats!!!
 

paulnj

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The patterning is a bit odd, but definately possible geneticly. If both parents were eclipse eyed, you have an eclipse if you ask me. even if it's a .1 % snake eye :D
 

SFgeckos

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Here's an updated photo of them!

One is an eclipse, the other is not.

Jon
 
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robin

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they are both gorgeous! the other one has such a long body it looks like that giant "look"
 

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