Wanted to share what happened:
I recently got back into the hobby hardcore after a 10 yr hiatus. I now have a group of 1.4 beardeds. The male is an italian leatherback.

One of my female beardies laid a clutch of 28 eggs the first week of April. This was the first clutch of bearded eggs I have ever attempted to hatch (or ever gotten for that matter). I placed the in a hovabator in hatchrite along with a thermometer and the temp was set at 84 degrees. 5 weeks went by and I got two more clutches of eggs from other females and started to set them up. I purchased some new thermometers and when I placed one in the hovabator I saw it said 91 degrees. I verified this with other thermometers of various types.

The dragon eggs had been at 91 degrees for 5 straight weeks. I then turned down the temps to 84 and 16 of the 28 eggs hatched two weeks later on june 24th. One had a bad kink in its spine but the remaining 15 all look pretty good. I upgraded to a better incubator with a digital readout for the other two clutches.

1) I was under the impression 91 degrees would kill the embryos.
2) Can I expect a male heavy group?
3) Outwordly the dragons look good but can I expect problems down the road?

Thanks in advance.

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