That is exactly what I was looking for.

We have hatched some turtle and other types of torts eggs. What is confusing is that "Whitening up thing". Consider, I have hatched all sort of repties eggs and on a very consistant basis(for 44years). I have had eggs incubating 24/7, 365 without a break, year-a-round, for 15 strait years. But those dang turtly type eggs can be laid white, or laid clearish, or banded, then turn white later or not and still hatch. Our first clutch of Redears, were brown clearish, all dented up, slimey and full of ants. And every stinking egg hatched. If those eggs were varanid or snake eggs, I would have thrown them out. Tort eggs do not seem as radical, but they too are not so consistant as my normal easy varanid eggs(most people think they are hard to hatch)

I do incubate on the dry side, had problems with some turtles. But so far not a problem with torts. I have a incubator room. And that does make a huge difference.

Direction if hear(heated air) has far more effect on condensation, than degrees of humidity. With incubators, the direction of heated air(top, botton, side) draws condensation in a particular direction. With a room incubator this is highly reduced(mass).

Also, I mentioned to my son, to feed them up, as they both appeared to "want" to produce more clutches. Keeping monitors(the muliti-clutch kings) I have learned to tell which females will. The behavior just before laying and immediately after is important. Both his females continually fed between test digging, and immediately after laying, as well as went right to heat. Females that are not going to have another clutch, tend to have a lesser appeitite and less need for heat. Again thanks for the info.

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