The Bearded Derek
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My leopard geckos just laid eggs (recently she laid 2 infertile eggs before this) and I would like to know some tips and advice to make them live.
She just laid them today, about 7 hours ago. I candled one of the eggs and it had its little red "bullseye" on it. I didn't get to candle the other because I was in a hurry, but the other egg felt just as hard as the other one (Not like infertile eggs where they feel like water balloons) so I assumed it was fertile too. Before I left, I put the eggs in my DIY incubator inside a little deli box with wet perlite (The perlite was completely soaked in water and I removed the excess water by pouring it out) I put them in and covered them about half way, left the other half exposed (I'll post a pic).
My female is pretty skinny now and apparently shes not really in the mood for eating. Anything I could use to get her enticed to eat? Horn worms, maybe? She usually eats superworms (Crickets sometimes, or waxworms) Her tail is also fairly skinny (Not super skinny that she'd be sick or something, but it is skinny)
I would like to know about how long it would take for them to hatch (They're being incubated at 82-84 degrees)
Do I need to open the container every few days for them to get air? If so, how many times?
My DIY Incubator is made out of a styrofoam cooler. The bottom has heat tape to heat it up, on top of the heat tape is 4 water bottles to evenly distribute the heat, and on top of those bottles is where the deli box is. My concern is the thermostat it has. The thermostat allows the incubator to heat the box until the desired temperature (In my case, 84.5), but once that temperature has been reached, it stops heating until it reaches 2 degrees below it. I'm wondering if the constant change of that temperature would harm it (I've read before that it's not really the temperature change that matters, but rather the speed in which it changes that matters) from those 2 degrees down, it usually takes about 15-25 minutes to heat back up, and about 30-50 minutes to come back down. Is that too quick that I should worry about it?
Which type of incubator should I get in specific? I've been told Hovabator is a great one, but I'm not sure specifically what model is best suited for it.
Back when I had more eggs (They were fertile but died for some reason, not sure why exactly) about a year ago, the eggs grew this soft, cottony type of fungus. Is that normal? Would it kill the eggs? When I saw that it had it, I got a cotton swab and carefully removed it.
Sorry if all these questions have been answered before, I just hope someone answers quick all in one page instead of just googling all this myself.
She just laid them today, about 7 hours ago. I candled one of the eggs and it had its little red "bullseye" on it. I didn't get to candle the other because I was in a hurry, but the other egg felt just as hard as the other one (Not like infertile eggs where they feel like water balloons) so I assumed it was fertile too. Before I left, I put the eggs in my DIY incubator inside a little deli box with wet perlite (The perlite was completely soaked in water and I removed the excess water by pouring it out) I put them in and covered them about half way, left the other half exposed (I'll post a pic).
My female is pretty skinny now and apparently shes not really in the mood for eating. Anything I could use to get her enticed to eat? Horn worms, maybe? She usually eats superworms (Crickets sometimes, or waxworms) Her tail is also fairly skinny (Not super skinny that she'd be sick or something, but it is skinny)
I would like to know about how long it would take for them to hatch (They're being incubated at 82-84 degrees)
Do I need to open the container every few days for them to get air? If so, how many times?
My DIY Incubator is made out of a styrofoam cooler. The bottom has heat tape to heat it up, on top of the heat tape is 4 water bottles to evenly distribute the heat, and on top of those bottles is where the deli box is. My concern is the thermostat it has. The thermostat allows the incubator to heat the box until the desired temperature (In my case, 84.5), but once that temperature has been reached, it stops heating until it reaches 2 degrees below it. I'm wondering if the constant change of that temperature would harm it (I've read before that it's not really the temperature change that matters, but rather the speed in which it changes that matters) from those 2 degrees down, it usually takes about 15-25 minutes to heat back up, and about 30-50 minutes to come back down. Is that too quick that I should worry about it?
Which type of incubator should I get in specific? I've been told Hovabator is a great one, but I'm not sure specifically what model is best suited for it.
Back when I had more eggs (They were fertile but died for some reason, not sure why exactly) about a year ago, the eggs grew this soft, cottony type of fungus. Is that normal? Would it kill the eggs? When I saw that it had it, I got a cotton swab and carefully removed it.
Sorry if all these questions have been answered before, I just hope someone answers quick all in one page instead of just googling all this myself.
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