When week they come out?!

[DrCarrotTail]

Got me. I would think if they were bad they would have started to rot before now. Do they have a funny smell to them?

A couple of the first eggs my female laid this season had small spots that were slightly less calcified than others. That's my best guess but I could see the spots the day they were hatched and kept an eye on them to make sure they didn't cause issues. The babies from those eggs hatched a couple weeks ago healthy and happy. Maybe someone else has a better idea.

 

[hikki]

Hope more would comment!

 

[hikki]

I've got a new pair of egg today, probably another one tomorrow. I decided for the new one i'll try another method, which is incubate @~28C°, and only stop the heating during 2-3hours at night. What do you think? Once temperature will be back to normal (Which means 26C°; WTF is wrong with you weather..) i'll be able to completly turn off the heating. Other than that, it's now been exactly 60 days that the first pair i show on pic came, and still not out...

 

[DrCarrotTail]

I would incubate at a steady temp and not shut the heat off at all during the night. Tremper's book talks about shutting it off to prevent heat stress when incubating closer to 32. He says nothing at lower temps and personally I think its unnecessary and possibly harmful.

 

[hikki]

It's just MORE NATURAL. In Pakistan, temperatures are lower at night... Though it's true that temperatures underground (eggs are burried) are dropping less than "in the air", that's why i thought cutting the heat for few hours, temps will drop slowly about 3C° then come back. If i listen to you, then the actual ("old") eggs are all going to be bad, since they were the temperatures in the night were about 8C° lower than those during the day...

 

[stager]

At 83 degrees mine hatch at 53 almost every time

 

[hikki]

Heat always on, right?

 

[bfb345]

Yes turning off the heat is more natural but if you want healthy fully developed babies I wouldn't shut it off. I mean you could get the same results but it could turn out badly

 

[Lyn]

If you listen to Lisa, your eggs will probably hatch.

 

[DrCarrotTail]

I thought geckos laid their eggs in caves and crevices in the wild. I don't know much about exactly how deep down they lay but if its very deep the temperature would not fluctuate much from day to night. Seeing as captive hatched babies do demonstrate deformities from temperature fluctuations it would seem logical that they lay their eggs deep enough so the temperature changes very little.

 

[hikki]

That's what i said in my previous post, temperatures doesn't vary much under the ground. I realized/remembered that quite lately...

And yes, they do seem to dig quite deeply. Knowing all that now, i can expect most of my old eggs (about 10) to be bad?

 

[hikki]

Just opened the egg that looked bad. Found very litely developed embryo. Hope other eggs won't do that.. At least I know this female isn't sterile..!

 

[Lyn]

I don't think your female is unable to produce babies. I think it's the way you're incubating your eggs.

 

[hikki]

That's for another reason I was thinking that )

 

[hikki]

You think it'd be a good idea if I love ALL my eggs, including old one, into constant my new incubating setup, which is constant 26.5C°, or should I let sine in the old system (if so, tell me which = those that are more than 20?30?45? days old) thanks.