When week they come out?!

[hikki]

Waiting for my first babies.. When candling, I see one part of the egg is not transparent, guess that's the gecko? It's been 40 days now..

 

[hikki]

Not a single reply..

 

[OnlineGeckos]

If you're incubating for male, they should hatch around 30-35 days +/-. If you are incubating for female, they should hatch between 45-50 days +/-. Of course this is all assuming the egg is fertile.

 

[hikki]

I forgot to say, here we use different method : heading only daytime, and I put them @~30C°. Making calculation I find out they should come out in about 45-50days in that setting. It's been 46 days now. I see egg are pink of course, and one side seems full (head?). How many days before hatching the egg will start moving?

 

[OnlineGeckos]

Hard to tell, you can only incubate until you either have a hatchling or the egg go bad. The less you mess with it the better.

 

[hikki]

They're still not out... 56 days passed... So long

 

[DrCarrotTail]

I've never seen mine move but I incubate at about 27.2 C (81 F) and mine have all been taking 62-64 days to hatch. Temperature fluctuations of more than a few degrees can cause deformities. I would hesitate to let the temperature fall too much at night. If your incubation temp gets below 27 degrees at night and gives you an average close to 27 or 28 you could have another week or two to wait.

 

[hikki]

Yeah at night temp are even colder than that. You say you've seen them moved, how exactly?

 

[DrCarrotTail]

I said I've never seen mine move. I have candled them though and can see the hatchlings inside. Depending on the temperature they can take up to 110 days to hatch so if your nights get colder you may have a longer wait than I had.

Night fluctuations from 30-26 C (86-78 F) would scare me a LOT when it comes to incubation. IMO that is a huge amount of variations. Eggs often die if it gets colder than 25 and fluctuations affect cell division which can cause deformities. I have a cheap incubator that keeps my eggs at an almost constant temp (plus or minus 1 degree at most) night and day.

You'll have to keep us posted on how your method works!

 

[hikki]

I just followed the guide, as said the guy studied Leos for dozen of years.. And reports that their egg aren't endangered if temps remains above 23C (shouldn't be that cold during day of course..)so I just hope it didn't get below that.

I'm thinking of transferring the recent eggs to another box that I would heat at night too, partially at least... Anyway would you mind taking a pic of your candling? I mean when eggs are that old...

 

[DrCarrotTail]

This one should hatch in about 5 days:



This one in about 20 days:



and this one in about 40 days:

 

[hikki]

They're like #1, but that makes nite than 5 days already.

 

[DrCarrotTail]

I do stand corrected! I reread Trempers book on incubation and he doesn't say anything about low temps (other than below 23.4 can kill the egg) but he recommends lowering the temp 2.5 C at night from 32 to 29.5 to prevent heat stress when incubating for males. That's a lot more fluctuation than I thought an egg could safely take. Keep us posted on when yours hatch! I know the last week of waiting for my first hatchlings was torture for me

 

[hikki]

In my case there is +6C of difference.. That's huge, we'll see...

 

[DrCarrotTail]

The egg I thought had 5 days left hatched a couple days early tonight

 

[hikki]

Nice! Still nothing grrr..

 

[hikki]

Left egg... What does this mean?

 

[hikki]

I added this one, from another female, laid 44 days ago. It's so soft, like a water balloon not 100% full..? But it doesn't look totally bad at same time.. So I dunno what to think?

The other one from that pair (not on the picture) is strange too, in another way : after 45 days, it's only showing veins, like an egg usually do after 10-20 days...

 

[DrCarrotTail]

Not sure if t its the quality of the picture or the lighting but they do look a bit strange. All the ones I had that felt like water balloons went bad and molded after a week or so in the incubator. Eggs that are healthy and doing well should be firm and white. They may be a bit squishy 24-48 hours before they hatch but not much more in advance. Maybe weigh them? Mine tend to be about 3g at laying and are 5-6g when they hatch. If they gain weight it might be they are still alive?

 

[hikki]

Right! But just looking with eyes, you see it side they get much bigger.. The two first I showed are normal by color and touching, just left one is strange cause some parts are transparent, though you'll see it.. So what does it means in a mature/fertile egg?