[Ophidiophile]

My calico female is a very prolific egg layer. In the past she's glued all her eggs to the back of a piece of cork bark. This time though she glued her clutch of 2 eggs directly on top of other eggs rather than to the substrate. It'll be interesting to see what happens to them when the eggs under them hatch. To my mind they have 2 challenges: (1) one is avoiding the babies from the eggs under them moving into them and breaking them when they emerge and maybe more critically (2) even if the babies avoid the eggs on top, in my experience, after Tokay eggs hatch they become very brittle and start flaking off the cork bark. And sometimes my female consumes the shells. If the eggs under this clutch flake off, these 2 eggs will also fall off. It'll be interesting to see what happens. So far I have a 100% hatch rate of Tokay eggs. These could be the first 2 to not make it. Not too concerned though - I'm currently up to my ears in Tokay babies!

[holocaustto]

Just can say... if you're up to your ears, I wouldn't concern about having a couple :P hahahah
Keep us updated about how that turned out!

[thehotchik1000]

David,

I had the same problem with one of my clutches. One of them make it. There was no way to prevent that other loss though. When the one under it hatched it fell of the wall and died in the egg. Ive only lost 3 out of 15 babies so I think thats pretty good so far. Hopefully you keep up you 100%. But there is no life without dealth, unfortunately. Good Luck!!

[cliff_f]

I have had that happen a few times and amazingly enough the ones under them hatched without hurting the eggs on top. So then I removed them and put them in a incubator where they hatched.

[Ophidiophile]

Thanks for the replies! I think I'm going to monitor them closely and if they're not damaged when the eggs underneath hatch I'll carefully detach them and incubate them separately.