Alright here's how it starts out. I have been waiting for my female gecko to have eggs for a very long time. SO long that I eventually gave up on waiting. So I wake up this morning for school and notice an egg in the side of the aquarium and I'm like wow. I wondered if its already dead so I quickly got a cup filled it up with less than a quarter of sand and put it on top of a heating mat along with aluminum foil on top with a lamp above it. I come home from school rush upstairs and my heart sinks when the temperature is at 103 farenheit. I'm concerned that I killed the one that was in there. There was another one when I came home I just put that one in there right now and am monotoring the temperature. I have pics of them just in case. Mine are a little shriveled which leads me to beleive they may be dead. I now have it in the same cup with sand and foil except its in a big tupperware container with the heatpad under it and its maintaining a steady 82 degress farenheit.
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Any advice is greatly appreciated
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they're shriveled up because they're dehydrated. You need to have an incubation medium that holds moisture, like perlite/vermiculite.
And you need to have a laying container in your female's tank, with damp moss inside, so she has somewhere to lay her eggs. They will sometimes hold of on laying if they can't find somewhere they feel comfortable depositing the eggs, and if she waits too long she can become eggbound.
Yes I just went out and got some vermiculite and dampened it and placed the eggs in it with a top halfway on and a thermometer spike in the container going into the vermiculite. I thought it might be dehydration because the tops are very sunken in now but I expect very soon they should get rehydrated again. Only thing that sucks is I just sold my incubator and I have nothing but a homemade one that is sort of hard to regulate seeing as how I just set it up. I'm going to have to get it jsut right so that it maintains a temperature about 80 all day
