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OK WELL LIK 3 HOURS AGO I SAW 2 EGGS IN MY SNAPPING TURLES TUB OF WATTER THEY WERE JUST SITING THER EIN TH4E WATER SO LIK 5 MINS AGO I TOIOK THEM OUT AND PUT THEM IN SUM BEDDING THAT I PUT MY LEO EGS IN AND I WAS WONDR IF THEY R DEAD BCUZ BINEING IN WATER SO LONG? IF THEY NEED! TO BE IN AN INCUBATOR OR IF I CAN PUT THEM SUM WERE ELSE PLEZ HELP THANX

ALSO MY FEMALE IS ON 5 INCHES ROUND AND I THINK ITS A COMMON SNAPPER SO ITS KINDA WEIRD TO LA Y EGGS THAT SMALL ?

Either it's not a snapper or those arn't eggs.

Post a picture of both and I'm sure someone will be able to help you out. The eggs are likely destroyed from the submersion, but if your want, it won't hurt to incubate them.

Good luck
Ian

If you have a 5 inch turtle laying eggs it is definetly not a snapping turtle. If your eggs are oblong and brittle you probably have a mud or musk of some kind. As for being in the water; its hard to say different species eggs can handle being under water for different amounts of time- some snake necks and side necks lay eggs under water and they may sit for nearly 6 months before receding water triggers them to start incubating. Anyway- set them up in damp vermiculite at about 82 degrees and if they start to "cap out" or begin turning white in a few days, they are good. If they don['t change color after a week they are probably bad.
GL