- Messages
- 15,406
- Location
- Somerville, MA
I am incubating eggs of a first timer - tremper PRS female x tremper male. Yesterday at 7 weeks exactly, the first one hatched to my surprise. I'm incubating at 82 and so far the earliest hatch has been 7 weeks 3 days. This one was small, but not the smallest I've hatched, and in good health. I had given up on the clutchmate because the egg has looked quite dented for awhile. At the time the first one hatched yesterday, the other egg looked just about flat, but it wasn't moldy and I figured I'd get rid of it after the other eggs in the container hatched.
This afternoon I was taking a new baby banded gecko out of that container (the banded, who is less than an inch long, jumped the container and headed off for an unscheduled adventure on my carpet and was eventually rescued . . but that's another story) when I noticed that the egg was no longer flat and that it was moving. An hour later, a tiny little gecko hatched. There's no point in even weighing her. She's a day later than the clutchmate, but half the width with a lot of yolk still attached. It's interesting how much of a size difference there is between these 2. I carefully picked the perlite off the yolk. Right now she's in one of those rectangular plastic containers that baby food comes in, the little container is in a tub in my overflow rack. She's got limited space to move around, warmth and humidity. I don't have much hope for her, but she's wiggling around, so we'll see how she does.
Aliza
This afternoon I was taking a new baby banded gecko out of that container (the banded, who is less than an inch long, jumped the container and headed off for an unscheduled adventure on my carpet and was eventually rescued . . but that's another story) when I noticed that the egg was no longer flat and that it was moving. An hour later, a tiny little gecko hatched. There's no point in even weighing her. She's a day later than the clutchmate, but half the width with a lot of yolk still attached. It's interesting how much of a size difference there is between these 2. I carefully picked the perlite off the yolk. Right now she's in one of those rectangular plastic containers that baby food comes in, the little container is in a tub in my overflow rack. She's got limited space to move around, warmth and humidity. I don't have much hope for her, but she's wiggling around, so we'll see how she does.
Aliza
