[GutterRoxy]

So I've been out of town touring the country in a van with 2 of my friends for the past 3 months and haven't been home. I left my boyfriend in charge of my geckos in my absence. He's not really a reptile person, but he's adept at administering food, water, vitamins, and cage cleanings. Then, low and behold this morning while checking my email I find this message:

"What should i do if when cleaning la-mo and jin tao's cage i find something resembling an egg? It could just be a giant gecko poo (or some arcane gecko fertility sculpture), but it rather resembles an egg. "

followed by this one:

"Okay so I called Anne and she made me pick up the egg (or arcane gecko sculpture). The light shines through it so it is probably an egg. The internets tell me that if it hatches i have 70-100 days to wait, so i am less stressed. I love you and the idea of being a gecko grandpa scares me."

Now Lhamo an Jintao are my pair of Teratoscincus scincus that I aquired a little under a year ago, they had never been bred before and I have put no effort forth to do so, so I'm totally unprepared as to what to do. I also wont be home for another week at the earliest, so I need some advice to give him. I need to know really any information you guys have about caring for this egg. I already told him to check daily for more eggs, but I need to know what temp they need to be incubated, substrates to use etc.

[erik]

hi,

if it is realy an egg, i always use empty cricket boxes were i makes a little bit more airholes in the roof. than i put in some dry sand, half way of the box.
make a hole so that the egg is burried half way in the sand. than place it in the incubator under a temp of 28 digrees celsius. make sure that there is a dish filled with water in the incubator to give some humidity. with this temp it should hatch around 60 days.
much luck!!!

grtz,e

[GutterRoxy]

Thanks a lot for the advice, hopefully the egg is viable and everything, but I guess I'll check that out next Friday when I get home. I already told him there's a fair chance it wont hatch anyway, but I think he's just worried I'll be mad if it doesn't because the last time I left him in charge he accidently killed my axolotls. It would be nice to have some babies though.