Hi
I got a new beardie female last year. She was 2 years old and gravid when I got her. She laid 17 eggs. On the advice of the people at our local reptile store, we set up a fishtank heater incubator (we can't get a proper incubator). We had the eggs in a tupperware with damp vermiculite. We stay in Durban, South Africa, and in summer, the temperatures get as high as 33 - 35 C, so we put the eggs in an airconditioned room. There was some temperature fluctuation and long story short, the eggs went green and smelt bad. Before we threw them out, I opened one up and there was a perfect little baby inside, but dead
Izzy has been staying with my 2 males (who have always lived together) all through winter. They started mating a few weeks ago and last night she laid 19 eggs. We have them in the same incubator set up but in containers with holes in the lids. The fishtank heater is set at 30C and the temperature in the incubator is at 25C, humidity at 85%. I know this is low but I am scared of cooking them! Is this ok - will they just take longer to hatch or will they die? Is there anything else we should be doing that we're not? I feel so bad that the babies died last time and I don't want to kill them again.
They are all fertile, all in vermiculite spot-side up. Last time we candled quite late along and saw the little tails moving so maybe that killed them and not the temp changes? I'm not candling at all this time!!
Any advice please!
I got a new beardie female last year. She was 2 years old and gravid when I got her. She laid 17 eggs. On the advice of the people at our local reptile store, we set up a fishtank heater incubator (we can't get a proper incubator). We had the eggs in a tupperware with damp vermiculite. We stay in Durban, South Africa, and in summer, the temperatures get as high as 33 - 35 C, so we put the eggs in an airconditioned room. There was some temperature fluctuation and long story short, the eggs went green and smelt bad. Before we threw them out, I opened one up and there was a perfect little baby inside, but dead
Izzy has been staying with my 2 males (who have always lived together) all through winter. They started mating a few weeks ago and last night she laid 19 eggs. We have them in the same incubator set up but in containers with holes in the lids. The fishtank heater is set at 30C and the temperature in the incubator is at 25C, humidity at 85%. I know this is low but I am scared of cooking them! Is this ok - will they just take longer to hatch or will they die? Is there anything else we should be doing that we're not? I feel so bad that the babies died last time and I don't want to kill them again.
They are all fertile, all in vermiculite spot-side up. Last time we candled quite late along and saw the little tails moving so maybe that killed them and not the temp changes? I'm not candling at all this time!!
Any advice please!
