having trouble incubating Pictus Gecko eggs

[josabby]

My female has laid about three clutches of eggs and I can't seem to successfully incubate them like the Leopard eggs. They are extremely fragile. The first clutch, she laid in the corner of the cage instead of the nesting box and I hadn't read about how fragile the eggs were and they fell apart when I picked them up. The second clutch was just hollow. It was really strange. The eggs got holes and were hollow shells. The most recent clutch was just one egg. I had it in hatchrite and it just seemed to have exploded one day when I checked the container. Does anyone have any ideas. Hermione is a nice pet and I don't want the strain on her for no reason.

 

[RubberDuckey273]

what temperature are you incubating them at? i incubate mine at 85 degrees in a hovabator, on moist vermiculite. has this particular female laid eggs that have hatched previously? to pick them up i use a spoon.

 

[josabby]

about 82

 

[sajane]

your eggs may be infertile? I'm still trying to get a do it your self incubator set up but mine have been sitting in dry cold coco fiber and then i spray it and then i got a uth that got too hot long story short my eggs are still hatching even though I haven't been real careful with them.

 

[Ophidiophile]

I incubate my pictus eggs on a dry vermiculite/perlite mix. The deli cup with the eggs and substrate is placed inside a larger rubbermaid container that has about 1/4" of water in it. I initially had a lot of trouble incubating pictus eggs - they were on a medium that was too wet (and it was still much drier than what I incubate my snake eggs on). Basically these brittle hard shelled eggs need medium humidity but a dry substrate. Hatchrite undoubtedly has too much moisture for them.

And as the other post says, sounds like some of these may have been infertile anyway.

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