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ok..my female leo laid eggs right? well they're fertile..but she rolled them..i think this because one of them completely collapsed and i decided to cut it open...look what i saw....you can easily make out the embryo...im really sad...hopefully her next clutch will be different

I feel your pain. My leo had a ruptured eggs, and then it passed, and i could clearly see the new leo forming, it was very sad.

What does it mean, "she rolled them?"
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Marcia McGuiness
Golden Gate Geckos
www.goldengategeckos.com

I wasnt there when she laid them, so i didnt see it..im guessing because one egg was one one side of the rack and the other was at the other side they werent in the humid hide, i candled them last night befor i did that and the embryo was near the bottom...supposed to be on top right?

Cool pic! I've found that eggs are pretty tough and can withstand some rolling in the first 24 hrs or so and still hatch. I always wait until they are growing mold or smelling before I cut them open. I've had some eggs make amazing recoveries and I've even had a few that stayed kind of "dimply" and still hatched.

I disect most of my eggs that don't hatch. I've found some pretty interesting stuff. A couple of the eggs that didn't make it the year before last had siamese twins joined at the head. I preserved them in alcohol.

Hope you have better luck with her next clutch(s). Were these from your snow?

-Alice

yeah, im leaving her other egg in the incubator cause its actually starting to firm up again at 83*f i guess only time will tell, if it starts moldoing or smelling or even collapses(sp?) i guess i'll throw it out, i cant wait for her next clutch though! now that i know she's fertile...(I HOPE!) LOL i wont worry..once shes done with the season i won't be breeding her again..shes a beautiful leo and i wouldnt want anything to happen to her

heres a pic of her..its not great..she's a B grade snow..after 3 sheds she's lost most of her yellow blotches but still has some faint yellow on her back legs, her names Arwen

2.4 leos(soon to be 2.9.4!)
1.4 tokays
1.2 beardies
2.1 green igs
(and soon to be 0.1 ball python!)

Arwen...my snow..

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If you have ever witnessed a female leo lay her eggs, you will see that she will spend a considerable amount of time 'rolling' her eggs back and forth with her back feet before burying them. If you found them in opposite sides of the enclosure, she may have laid them at different times, perhaps. You know, my husband knocked over an ovabator full of 10 clutches incubating, and they were all over the place. I did the best I could to get them back the way they were... and they all hatched just fine!
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Marcia McGuiness
Golden Gate Geckos
www.goldengategeckos.com