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Is there any way to get already hardened tokay eggs off of a wall without injuring them? Does anyone have ideas that MIGHT work to get the eggs down? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Steve

Ok,

its easier to think about such tricks BEFORE the female laid the eggs (covering the fasvoured egg laying place with a piece of paper which is coloured like the background but is easily removable is a proven method), but there ARE tricks available to remove glued eggs.
This works best from a wooden or stone surface, hardly for plastic and not at all for glass:
Put a very wet paper towel around the eggs and let it soak for 25 min (not longer or the embryos may drown).
Then vigorously and quickly break the eggs from the surface with your hand.
Even though it often works well, there still is a risk of damaging the eggs. Anyhow, incubated at high humidity even damaged eggs still hatch unless the inner egg membrane is affected.
But why remove the eggs?
Normally the hatch within the tank without any problems.

hope that helps

Ingo

Ingo is correct, I took his advice a long time ago. I used to remove or cover the eggs to protect them. Now I just let them hatch out as their laid and have had no problems. The adults will watch over the eggs and babies when they hatch. After they hatch you can remove the babies to a different tank if you want.

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