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hey everyone. im normally on other forums but i need some help. my friend adopted to male beardies about 3 weeks ago and she said they were always fighting. well...they werent! turns out they're a pair. (i still havent seen them) the female laid a clutch of 17 eggs and my friend doesn't have an incubator. i told her to get some perlite or vermiculite and put them in a tupperware container for now and keep them warm until she can get one. a friend told her to keep them like that with a heat like 2 ft. away to keep them warm. she told me today that all the eggs are dented n she had to throw a few away cause they broke. i told her not to throw any away until they are rotten..i know ugly eggs still hatch sometimes. anything else she can do until she can get an incubator? even so i think shes gna get one from a feed store..probably for chicken eggs. any changes she needs to make to have the eggs make it? id appreciate any help..sorry it was long. thanks..
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1.0 arg. b/w tegu
2.1 het pieds
0.1 southern painted turtle
0.1 crested gecko
1.0 apbt

probably best to just freeze the eggs and get an incubator for the next batch which should come soon...

An incubator can be made very easily, or just mail ordered from places like LLLreptiles...(see the Businesses or Classifieds tab for their site above, or check their banner ads).

Dragon eggs should be incubated at 82-85F and high humidity. Dented eggs mean humidity is too low.

If your friend is new to dragons, it probably best she separate the dragons into their own cages and just freeze the eggs she lays to kill them, then toss them. Otherwise she will have quite a bit of babies to care for,feed and house till they can be found permanent homes. As dragons can lay three to five clutches.. and if she has say 15 eggs per clutch.. thats anywhere between 45 to 75 babies from the one female...may not seem like much..but to rear them properly...it can cost quite a bit of money, just with feeding them alone. (average baby dragon can eat 50 crickets a day spread between several meals, some can eat as many as 100 crickets a day. Can easily go through 1000 crickets a day with 20 babies eating 50 crickets a day. It can cost anywhere between $10 to $25 per 1000 crickets depending on where you go and shipping costs. See below for info on cheap suppliers of crickets)
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PHLdyPayne

i have a feeling they might not make it. she's totally unprepared n i had told her that if the eggs are dented it's cause lack of humidity. i don't know really since i haven't seen the beardies or the eggs. she has other reptiles but no pairs or anything. i'll let her know about the multiple clutches they lay..i didn't know that. she said she laid one more egg today. the others were laid last night. we'll see what happens i guess. thanks for the reply..i really appreciate it. i read the thread below..i must have overlooked it..sorry. thanks again..
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1.0 arg. b/w tegu
2.1 het pieds
0.1 southern painted turtle
0.1 crested gecko
1.0 apbt