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I am sooo glad I found this site! I've been sifting through old messages and have been happy with all the people willing to help. Ok now here's what I need help with. I've been keeping leopards for about 1 1/2 years. Originally I bought 2 full grown females that had been cage mates and a few months later got a hatchling, maybe a few weeks old who turned out to also be a female. They have been caged together for the past few months now. Recently bought a male who is now sharing the cage too. Before I got the male one of my older females began laying eggs, obviously not fertile, and the first time this has happened since I got them. But the same fem layed 2 eggs about 1 1/2 weeks after the male had been placed in the cage. I only had a temp humid hide in the cage, an old salad bowl with damp paper towels in it. I did not notice until the morning that she had laid eggs and when I went to take them out they were stuck together. I put them in an incubater but now a week later one of the eggs is looking really bad. Very very dark color. The other egg is still white and nice looking. Because they are stuck together will that make both of them bad if one goes? Any help would be great.

Thanks
Mandi

Even though they are stuck together and one egg looks bad there is still a good chance that the good egg will be fine.

i would think that they are probably both bad. I don't think 1 and a half weeks is enough time to mate and grow full eggs. I've read it takes 20 days for the eggs to grow inside the gecko. I would try to separate the bad one from the good one and keep the good one in the incubator until it either goes bad or hatches, thats about all you can do. good luck

I wasnt sure if they would be fertile either but figured Id keep them until they went bad just in case. I cut the bad one off last night and the inside looked different than the other eggs she had laid before the male. There was a red spot in it and a few red lines but everything was really thick.
Thanks for your help