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My 2 girls have laid their first clutches ever. One clutch was 5 eggs het for anery. the other was 8 eggs with unknown genetics. Both clutches were sired by a BHB line tangerine. The dame is supposed het for albinism. I am kind excited about not knowing the males genetic background. Hopefully I have a surprise in store.

Very cool!.....best of luck with getting a few neat surprises there.

I see you have the tops of the one cluch on the left marked so they don't accidentally roll during the 70-80 day incubation period. I always do that with loose eggs too just in case!

I once had a clutch of ghost Honduran eggs fall off the shelf from about five feet up. They sho box crashed open and the eggs and substratewere all over the freakin place when I looked in to see what the loud crashing sound was. Unbelievably, they all hatched after being re-oriented just as they were after this mid-term catastrophe. I was thinking that they might have gotten so jolted tit might have killed the embryos inside, but thankfully it was not the case. I attribute at least some of how they still hatched to having them marked right side up..

What is your "target" temperature you are trying to keep them at?. In recent years I have tried to stay on the safer side with slightly cooler temps in the 78-81 range. Much more beyond the very low 80's and the possibility of accidental temp spikes can take a toll. I'm certainly not saying that eggs in the lower to mid 80's won't, or cannot hatch very healthy, because they certainy can (and have). But given the two choices, I think slightly cooler equates to less possibility of any kinks or other deformities, or even full-term deaths happening for a multidude of different reasons over a long period of time.

Anyway, good luck with those nice looking eggs!..

~Doug
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The temp has been at 81-82. After an extended power outage last week the temps dropped to 76. As far as marking the eggs. I always do. Better safe than sorry.

Congratulations on your 2 clutches. Hope you get some neat ones! I too have a couple of clutches that I still haven't posted. I need to do that in the next day or so.

--Dennis

Nice job! Looking forward to seeing what hatches from those. It's weird how that clutch of 5 have three different size eggs. Good Luck!
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It is an odd clutch. The longest egg is about 3 inches long.