First Clutch ever
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diplodactyla
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They seem to be fertile, good for you! But tell me, how did you forecast the exact date of the hatch?
lindsaydo
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Allee Toler
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Certain temps make for certain hatch dates. Given they ARE estimates. Lower temps- long incubating time. My 88F eggs hatch on/around day 35, whereas my 82F eggs hatch on/around day 60. Though each egg is different.
I have an 82F egg due on Monday.
diplodactyla
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@ Lindsay: they seem fertile in my opinion (especially the one on the right, the other it's not clear) because of the shape (regular and without deformities or depressions) and the consistency seems full...maybe I'll turn to be wrong...
@allee: I had the two egg of a single clutch, incubated together at the same conditions of humidity and 31deg constant day and night...one egg hatched after 30 days, the second took 45!!! This is the reason why I asked, because my calculations are always wrong and maybe online there is a software to calculate for me!
@allee: I had the two egg of a single clutch, incubated together at the same conditions of humidity and 31deg constant day and night...one egg hatched after 30 days, the second took 45!!! This is the reason why I asked, because my calculations are always wrong and maybe online there is a software to calculate for me!
Allee Toler
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It's really just guess work. Just like a girl who's pregnant. I've also had perfect shaped eggs come up infertile and not rot for a couple months.
diplodactyla
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Don't tell me this!!! I've had my first milii egg on 22/05, it's in the incubator, but after 5 days i cant still see a vein!! :-( and yesterday evening the egg was "sweating"...i don't know what to think, i just can keep fingers crossed!
diplodactyla
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I don't touch or pick up the eggs!! Simply light them with a little led (directly in the incubator) to see if there are veins.
Riverside Reptiles
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From "your experience"??? Exactly how many clutches of eggs have you hatched out??? What exactly IS your experience? Because as far as I can tell, just a few months ago you were keeping your leos on hay and vermiculite and calcisand. Please stop giving out regurgitated advice. You don't need to comment on every single post with your "experience". Try gaining some practical experience before telling everyone else what to do. If it continues, you will be sited for community disruption. Fair warning.
lindsaydo
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My experience with eggs has been my own leo's eggs, and eggs at a shop where I help out.
I have never kept my leopard gecko's calci sand thank you very much. They came with it in their tanks from a person who gave them up to me.
As for the hay, I put it in for the crickets to munch on, and to see if the leo's would use it, which they didn't.
I had vermiculite in a damp box, which they came with.
Ethan, I try and help people. Would you or would you not agree that you shouldn't be picking up the eggs all the time, and you should just leave them? Because that is all I said.
If you have a problem with me PM me, don't try and argue here in the forum as it just creates unnecessary drama.
After everything is said and done, I only give people advice that I have researched myself or I have done.
When people are talking about how they use a cotton bud up the vent of a leo to loosen the eggs where are you then?
Also, this "regurgitated advice" helps people. Some people who have issues with there leo's come on, post something and no one will reply to them, but I do.
I am not telling everyone else what to do, a lot of the things people post on here really upset me, and I want to shake them and say do some basic research, but I can't say anything as I thought I would have been cited for a community disruption, so now, I try and help people, be patient and nice to them, and I am going to get cited anyway?
Oh and by the way, when you said I was paranoid that my leopard gecko had follicular stasis, and I was just taking "regurgitated advice" from someone else - well she has had surgery today to remove follicles and her ovaries.
Turns out I am not stupid after all, and I do know what I am doing.
Riverside Reptiles
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Lindsey, you have been on these forums a matter of only a few months. You have over 500 posts! It takes most members YEARS to accumulate that many posts. It's one thing to be helpful, it's entirely another thing to post in almost every leo thread that's made...especially when you have VERY little real life experience. Trust me, you are not the first person on here that we've had to deal with this issue on. Most of them are no longer members of this forum. Your intentions may be good, but you act like a know it all when the fact of the matter is that you're a total newbie. Reading something and regurgitating it is not the same as having had real life practical experience. It's great that you're excited to help people. But perhaps you can better serve the community by slowing down and adding quality advice as opposed to quantity. I also think that you should read the following thread: http://www.geckosunlimited.com/community/news-rules-updates/39500-new-infraction-information.html
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