[Polly Pocket]

Hi, earlier this evening my female EFT laid a clutch of 2 eggs in her moist hide. I am relatively new to gecko keeping, and would be thankful for some advice on how best to keep the eggs.

[acpart]

I will assume that this gecko has been with a male. If not, just throw out the eggs because they are infertile.

If the eggs may be fertile, they need to be incubated. The eggs have a good chance of hatching if they can be kept at a steady temperature between about 82.5 and 90 (I'm mostly a leopard gecko breeder, so the upper end of temps could possibly be higher but I imagine someone will correct me) and a humidity of at least 80-90%. Most people accomplish this by putting the eggs in a moist incubation medium in an incubator. In the US, the best starter incubator is the "hobovator"; I don't know if it's available in the UK, but any chicken/bird egg incubator that doesn't automatically turn the eggs (reptile eggs should not be turned, which is different from bird eggs) is OK. There are pages and pages written about gecko breeding; I just finished writing a breeding article at it's at least 5 pages long, so I'm not going to reproduce it in a post. Your next step is to either get a leopard gecko care book that includes a section about fat tails, and/or to google "fat tail breeding" (or if you don't find much "leopard gecko breeding") find out what you can and come back here with questions.

Good luck

Aliza