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Hello all.

A friend of mine has a male and female vieled. they mated and the females laid about 50 eggs into a nesting tub in the bottom of their 260 gallon screen cage. they have not touched the eggs because they tried to incubate them last year and it didnt work.
the eggs have been in the tub about 7-8 months now and we have been checking them periodically. the eggs look good, very white and big (well not that big) where should we go from here? should we take them out, will the babdie dig there way out of the sand.. we need your help...

thanks in advance...

greg from montreal

There are some good articles on caring for eggs and babies on www.chameleonnews.com

I dont know what you should do but I dont think you can move the eggs. they have small air pockets in them and if you tilt them at all it will kill the babies inside.
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From Sunny Florida
Jovana's kids listed below
1.1 Veileds
1.0 Ambanja Panther
1.1 Tamatave Panther

Greg,
How have you been checking them? Digging up the until the top of them? If you were to move them, I wouldn't turn them much, although I've heard of people dropping incbuators full of eggs and not having problems with hatching. I've always thought it would be interesting to keep a full clutch of eggs full term where they were laid and see what happened, and I'll probably try it soon. I don't think you'd get as high of a hatch rate, and you would have all the slower eggs chemically signalled to hatch early, but it's nartural and would be interesting to hear about what happened. If I were you, I'd leave them alone at this point. They're going to hatch soon (if ever), and from now on keep an eye on them. Let us all know what happens.
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Tyler Stewart
Las Vegas NV
www.BLUEBEASTREPTILE.com