Sound like your doing doing a really good job.

Over the past year, I've hatched 11 Golden greek torts. The average pre-incubation egg weight has been 20g. The average incubation time has been 68 days. Max incubation time was 73 days and min incubation time was 64 days. Cluch size has ranged from 3 to 6 eggs.

Eggs were incubated at 86-87F. All hatchlings have perfect scutes and no deformities. It is still too early to say what sex they are.

I added 30g of water to 175g of vermiculite for the first clutch and just added later clutches to the same container in the incubater. I spray a little water, away from the eggs, on the vermiculite around twice a month, and spray each egg a little after a hatchling has broken through the egg shell. Overall this is dry compared to other torts but seems to work well.

I keep the hatchlings warm and moist to promote smooth shell growth.

Keep an eye on your egg laying females. They may produce another clutch around 30 days after the first. I had one female lay 3 eggs on 11/23/05, another 3 eggs on 12/23/05, and than another 3 eggs on 1/19/06!

Also, make sure your egg laying females are getting lots of calcium. Mine love Turnip Greens which happen to have more calcium than many other types of greens.

Have your eggs chalked over or turned chalk white compared with the pinkish white they are when they are laid. If so, it is a good sign they will hatch.

Let us know what happens,

John

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