Hey there! I'm back, It has been a while since I posted so here is the news... I never did recover the second of my Sulcatas that escaped. So now the family is down to 6 Sulcatas. The 7 Easterns are doing good, they eat fruit one day and then get worms the next and then crickets on the third day. To my surprise all 7 will eat everything I feed them, no picky eaters. My wife and I were outside enjoying the turtles one evening and noticed that one little female was squatting over a freshly dug hole, my wife stood guard as I prepaired for the eggs to come. Now we have three eggs in the Hovabatior and two of the three seem to be good. the other one is very white colored. I have two thremomitors and one reads 84 and the other reads 78 so I guess I am in the clear for healthy babies. I just wanted to share a picture of the eggs. Thanks for looking and if anyone has any last minute advice please feel free to let me in this is my first attempt at hatching. I have water in the bottom of the hovabator and the moss with the eggs is very moist.
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Hov..& 3 Eastern Eggs
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Um, I think that you may have two bad ones (the yellowish ones) and one good one (the white one), at least based on my experience.
I agree with steph, yellow usually means infertile, in a few weeks you'll know if any are good as they should plump to nearly double their original size, I have 3 good ones and one I believe is infertile and the size difference is shocking.
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Regarding the viability of the eggs pictured; I agree with the above posts.
Regarding the medium, some favor perlite, some vermiculite, some peat moss, and some favor a mixture of the big three. However one facet is the same regardless of the medium...You want the moisture in the medium to be BARELY moist. Try and squeeze out all the moisture so no more rings out. Or look up tables for the different mediums on breeding box turtles and see the weight ratio of dry material to water.
When you've mixed it enough times you'll know how the medium should feel and it will be an automatic behavior.. A general rule of thumb is to add equal parts of water and vermiculite. But that all depends if your area has soft or hard water, the humidity or dryness of your locality and the temps of your incubator. Keeping them around 80 degrees is a basic safe rule. But I would advise you to check your water weight ratio to your dry material. It's slightly different ratio for different mediums.
Most breeders like to bury the eggs in the medium( inside a small container) and cover them with a plastic lid. Reserves water. Then into the incubator they go and leave them.
Ric
