I posted some pics on our forum of some eggs laid in a water valve box. They were laid on the ground at the bottom, with a tiny bit of leaves. We got a heavy rain and I opened the box to see the eggs floating in there. Later I opened the box again to see the eggs hatching.



But, both your example and mine, are out of context to hatching monitor eggs in captivity.



Monitor eggs are totally different from many other lizard eggs. Many species(our local stuff) lay eggs very near the surface, you know like beardeds. They incubate quickly and hatch normally within a givin season. Monitor eggs are normally deep deposition. That is, they are placed in a more secure place and often take several seasons(spring, summer, fall, winter) to hatch(larger species) Our own gila monster, nests very similar to varanids. Deep with medium incubation times. Also most all varanids diapause. Something all our local lizards do not do.



As one who has seen varanid nests in nature. And many many other reptiles species nests, I have found that our incubation is nothing like what they do. At all. But what we do, works. You can make it simple and have it work very easily.



As I often mentioned, I have had eggs incubating continiously, without missing a single day, since June of 1991. If it was complicated, I would not have done that. Basically speaking, I put eggs in the incubator and take out babies. No muss, no fuss.



It appears folks love muss and fuss, and killing eggs, they must, if not, they would just copy someone whos makes it look easy,(and that is not just me) There have been many commerical breeders from the Pete Kuhns(really good at hatching eggs) to the Original Rare earth, to many others, who have no problems.



Again, I would have to think that those with problems, WANT THEM. or else they would simply do what works and has been shown to work. YES? Also it appears EGO is very much envolved. Why else would someone kill wonderful monitors(in the eggs) in some attempt to invent a new way to do something thats already known to be easy????????????????????????????????????? Cheers

[ Show Entire Thread ]