It has been a number of years since I was into breeding herps, but when I did I was mainly into snakes and chameleons. My question is this... Do most bearded dragon breeders use incubators? I never used one, I just popped the eggs into deli containers with moist vermiculite and added a bit of water weekly. I would mark the date I expected them to hatch and when they were laid and I kept them under the bed. When it got close to hatch time I would check them a couple of times a day. I would only lose the occasional egg but the clutches always hatched fine. I never felt that the temps were too critical and what we kept the house at always seemed to be fine. Are beardeds a bit more delicate when it comes to incubation temps?
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Why incubators?
dynamohum1
Sep 20, 2003 10:20 AM
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grimdog
Sep 20, 2003 10:56 AM
As far as I know chameleons actually need a day night fluctuation to hatch. Snakes can actually maternally incubate (balls) or be incubated at room temp (corns and other colubrids). To my knowledge beardie eggs might be able to deal with room temp. But I like to incubate mine. More controlled. Also like right now my house outside my reptile room is getting down into the low 70s a bad thing for beardie eggs.
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Derek Affonce
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