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ok, i got home from school today and and did my usually rounds cleaning, feeding and misting and then i went to change the water in my female tank and there where 2 eggs.i am so excited. i have them in an incubator right now.is it normal for them to lay eggs in the water dish. the eggs where soft. is this good or are they infertile. what are good ways to know if they are ferile.i am not sure whose eggs they are. i have a pastel gravid female and a gravid hypo tangerine female who both mated with my blizzard male. well any info given is greatly appreciated. thank you. john

Does the leo have a humid hide box? Does he have sand substrate? I don't know why he layed them in the water dish, unless it was because there was nowhere else she was comforatble laying.

You may not be able to know if the eggs are fertile for the first few days. Usually an egg will shrivel up and turn brown after a few days if they are infertile. If they are fertile, then you will see blood veins developing after 1/2 a week or so. This is a pic of our egg at 10 days old. Just shine a flashlight through the egg to see the veins. Make sure you mark the top of the egg so that you to not tip it over or roll it. This could kill the baby gek. Hope the egg is fertile!!!

Nate
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Picture didn't make it. LOL Here it is!!

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*Nate*

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Yup!, My son and I used a regular, two "D" cell flashlight with standard halogen bulb. The hardest part of taking the pic was getting the flashlight to shine on the camera so the camera flash wouldn't go off. I had to take a dozen pics and only 5 came out okay.

Aren't digital cameras 'Da Bomb'...!

JJay

by the way, this is the other egg from the same clutch. this one is a little bigger.