HELP PLEASE!!! one of my females laid 2 eggs i guess today, she has only been exposed to a male once as a trial for about 2-3 days and i guess they mated...i dont have an incubator! will it work if i use a tupperware with vermic/water in it and place it on a heating pad...i have a temp gun and will try and get the temp to stabilize at 82-85 degrees...most importantly, how do u candle eggs???? i shined a light on them and i think i saw veins and orangeness, what should i see what does fertile as opposed to infertile look like??? also, i think one of them may have rolled...is the cluster of veins, if thats even what ur supposed to see, supposed to be on the top bottom or sides....please help im very excited but dont know what to do!!!
thanks,
chris
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HELP...SHE LAID EGGS!!!!!!!!!
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DONT place it on the heat pad! Put it in a tank with a brick in the middle, lay the container with the vermiculite or perlite (moist, not wet) on top of the brick in a sealed container. Place water about halfway up the brick in the tank. Seal the top of the tank with plexi glass or something solid.
The best thing you could use is a under water heater...but since you dont have one, you'll have to use the heat pad UNDER the tank, and constantly monitor the temps...im HOPING you have a digital thermometor or just a regular thermometer ATLEAST.
Hopefully someone else will be around to help you out more, as this is just stuff that ive read, and not done. But as long as you keep the temps/humidity level, you should be fine.
Ive even read of people incubating at room temperature in a sealed container with moist bedding, but thats the last thing to do.
Good luck!
~Crystal
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i wouldnt set the eggs you have. i would wait for the next clutch she lays which should be in the next 2 weeks or so. without a RELIABLE heat source your eggs either wont hatched or will possibly hatched deformed. here's what i originally did:
Take a large styrofoam container, an underwater heater, a tuppterware container and some way of setting it up higher than the water. fill the styrofoam cooler half full (approx.) with water and then put the water heater in it. close the lid and get it to the right temperature (that could take a while.) then get the nest set of eggs she lays and since you already have an incubator running, they wont have to go under any temperature changes that could kill or deform the embryos.
this is Just from experience
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