She laid the eggs on the paper towel? lol

[TranceZ]

So my female tangerine finally laid her eggs this morning. She laid them on the paper towel on the opposite side of the tube from her lay box, and there weren't even together. One was in the corner, the other was sitting outside a hide 10 inches away lol.

I dunno first clutch business is weird. I know when they do this there's a good chance they are not fertile, but I was in a rush to get to work this morning so I hurried up and candled them and they do have that red bulls eye in both, but I also noticed the eggs shell was very thing. (I know she gets enough calcium)

I threw them in perlite and put them in the incubator. I dunno we'll see I guess.

 

[acpart]

Good luck. I have a gecko that has laid 6 clutches and 5 of them weren't in the lay box. None has gone anywhere and she's about to lay again. I put her in the lay box about 10 times a night.

Aliza

 

[ElapidSVT]

just hope it's not a heritable trait

 

[TranceZ]

Good luck. I have a gecko that has laid 6 clutches and 5 of them weren't in the lay box. None has gone anywhere and she's about to lay again. I put her in the lay box about 10 times a night.

Aliza

What do you mean none has gone anywhere?

Is this her first year breeding?

The outer shell of the eggs seems very thin and flimsy, but I know 100% that they are fertile. Oh, well there's always next clutch if all else fails.

 

[acpart]

I meant that they have either not been fertile, been fertile but collapsed quickly, or been so shriveled there is no way to tell. This is her first year breeding so I'm not surprised, though I have had a first year breeder lay 23 eggs and have 22 hatch. As a matter of fact, I have another female the same weight and a month younger who has laid 6 clutches and the first 3 have hatched out lovely babies. In the case of this gecko that hasn't produced anything really viable, although she's an appropriate weight to breed, she's long and skinny and I think she'll probably do better next season.

Aliza

 

[TranceZ]

Wow that's amazing! 23 eggs! Did you end up selling all the babies? Yeah, one of the eggs out of the two are starting to collapse in the incubator. I'm like 80% sure they wont make it because the eggs should have hardened up by now.

 

[DragonRain]

I have a female who, her first year (last year) laid every single one of her eggs outside of the lay box. I tried incubating most of them but none of them made it. I decided to try breeding her one more time this year, and was going to retire her if she didn't produce any good eggs again. When she laid her first clutch this year she laid one inside the lay box, and the other outside of it. Low and behold the egg she laid in the lay box is due to hatch any day now, while the other one was infertile. It almost seems like they know somehow which eggs will make it and which won't. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but I've never had an egg that was laid outside the lay box hatch.

 

[fl_orchidslave]

They will kick a bad egg out of the lay box and stay with the good one.

 

[TranceZ]

I have a female who, her first year (last year) laid every single one of her eggs outside of the lay box. I tried incubating most of them but none of them made it. I decided to try breeding her one more time this year, and was going to retire her if she didn't produce any good eggs again. When she laid her first clutch this year she laid one inside the lay box, and the other outside of it. Low and behold the egg she laid in the lay box is due to hatch any day now, while the other one was infertile. It almost seems like they know somehow which eggs will make it and which won't. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but I've never had an egg that was laid outside the lay box hatch.

Thanks for sharing. I've actually never heard about this back when I bred leos like 10 years ago until now. You have really good point though, I think they know when their eggs are bad.

I had a female lay in her lay box, but didn't bury the eggs she just left them there no where near the moss and they were infertile she did the same to the clutch after.

When I checked on those last eggs today, they seem to be getting worse. both are dented on top, and the egg is still soft, yet fertile, but I can start to see the egg walls thinning like the egg is starting to look transparent.

 

[acpart]

I have found that my first-timers that laid huge numbers of eggs the first year never did that well again and actually did pretty poorly in later years. The gecko that laid 23 eggs produced 3 babies the next year (last year). This year she's laid 2 single eggs and each has had the baby die at about 5 weeks of incubation. I think this is her last season.

Aliza