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Hi
on a dutch forum where i come one guy incubated his eggs on the normal way.
he got a small tank with sand in it .
he mist it once a while so it stay moist with one light bulb 60 watt in it .
and after 80 days the babies crawled/climbed out with sand on head and runned around already and not lay dead for 24 houres
almost every egg hatch.
so i think his project workt fine and its a cheap way to incubated eggs
he wil send pics to me i wil show them .
think i share it .
byeeee
www.dragoncave.nl

Deffinitely an interesting way to incubate eggs. MOnitoring temperature within the sand and humidity could be tricky though. I certainly don't see anything wrong with experimenting with this method of incubation though I certainly wouldn't recommend it to beginners.

Did your friend bury the eggs much like the mother did? or just insert them within the sand much the same way breeder do with moistened vermiculate?
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PHLdyPayne

Hi
he let the female burow and let the nesting site intact.
then the eggs grow and then the babies digged out themzelf.
he got a 40 watt bulb in it its 40 x 40 centimeter terrarium.
dunno inches
so it whas not so big cage.
he told me he would send some pics.
byeeeeee

If I get too many eggs at one time, I will put some on the shelf and the others in the incubator. They will fluctuate between 70-82 degrees, and the babies hatch perfectly. They auctually hatch bigger than the ones incubated at a constant 84 degrees. It just takes a little longer. Josh