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I found these garden slender eggs and it has been hitting 100 degrees and I think there gona dry up what should I do with them

Newt and Salamander eggs can be easy to hatch. Garden Slender eggs sounds pretty unusual to me. Usually they are round. I'd put a small aquarium or fish bowl in my window, fill it about 3/4 with pond water, put some gravel or sand on the bottom with pond plants, and maybe gently areate them by means of a box filter. But garden slender eggs... did you find these on land? If you found the eggs on land, then they almost undoubtedly belong to a green snake or ringneck snake, in which case you'd have to make an incubator. I will need a little more information about these "garden slender eggs" before I can tell you exactly what to do.

DAVE

they were found on land and sorry I meant california slender salamender eggs

HI AGAIN

Bring them inside! Keep them in a cool place with plenty of light, but out of direct sunlight. Put them in very damp, almost saturated substrate. The developing embryos need that moisture.

DAVE

They shouldn't receive any light! Place then in a cover deli cup with at few pin holes. The substrate should be damp, but not wet. Place them in a cool closet.

What makes you think they're slender eggs? Did you find an adult with them.

RUSS

yes,I found six adults and one baby,but Ill put them in a deli cup with pin holes and damp substrate and in a cool closet and how long does it take for them to hatch

It varies but I'd plan on 45-75 days.

i recently found some baby slender sals in my side yard hiding under a trashcan and found this link quite helpful

http://www.amphibian.co.uk/batrach.html

scroll down to the breeding topic for info on eggs and young