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Hi...I'm new to leopards, have been a morelia guy for a while...just had a female lay her first clutch of two eggs:
1. Should I now separate her from the male? She has been housed together with him for the last few months?
2. I know how to incubate the eggs, but when I found them yesterday they were attached at the ends, should I pull them apart to incubate or keep them as is?
Thanks.
Mike

To seperate or not to that's a good question. I do seperate, but you have to be very carefull when doing it. I place a warm drop of water where they are stuck together and slowly rock side to side, so the eggs don't turn, adding another drop when needed. Being that it's at the ends I would seperate. They hatch out of the end of the egg and I would be worried about one peeping into the other egg before the other one was ready. I do it on all eggs that get stuck just incase one is infertle and starts to mold. Much easier to seperate now, then later, if one colapses or molds.
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This is GREAT advise! Definately what I would do

>>To seperate or not to that's a good question. I do seperate, but you have to be very carefull when doing it. I place a warm drop of water where they are stuck together and slowly rock side to side, so the eggs don't turn, adding another drop when needed. Being that it's at the ends I would seperate. They hatch out of the end of the egg and I would be worried about one peeping into the other egg before the other one was ready. I do it on all eggs that get stuck just incase one is infertle and starts to mold. Much easier to seperate now, then later, if one colapses or molds.
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>>6.19.3 Leos
>>1.0.1 Red Ear Sliders
>>1.0 Pembroke Corgi
>>0.2 Cats
>>8 fish
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1. I house male and females togeather for mating purposes only.
Keeping them togeather only causes problems.

2. I never seperate the eggs. It's risky. They always hatch
eventhough they are stuck togeather.

>>1. Should I now separate her from the male? She has been housed together with him for the last few months?

It never hurts to seperate them, but it isn't always necessary. If the female isn't losing weight or getting stressed then you don't have to seperate them. I keep about half my breeders together year round with no problems at all.
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