Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Well it took a little longer than expected but she laid 26 eggs last night. Now I have a question for all of you. Some are large and feel full, and feel like the egg is either hard or stiffer than the others. There are around 10 or 12 that feel like this and are of varying sizes. The rest are not full and look a little deflated. Are these eggs going to develop, or should I chalk them up to being her first clutch. Will she lay again without breeding, or if I wanted more eggs, give her a couple of months to recover and see if they breed again. Thanks for any advice you can give. These eggs are definitely different than the gecko eggs that I have incubated before. I have pictures of the eggs, but for the most part all of the eggs look the same and don't look that bad.

Greg
Cornelsworld Terrariums

-----
Greg West
www.cornelsworld.com

Mine laid 24 last night - 22 hopefully good, 1 iffy, and 1 sadly broken. I find that those that are on the deflated side just haven't had time / opportunity to absorb the ambient moisture from the substrate they were laid in compared to the plump eggs. If you make sure the soil is damp (not dripping wet) and cover them up and let them go for a day they tend to fill out.

My egg laying substrate is not always evenly wetted throughout from all the digging and moving by the dragon (I rewet when I move to the incubator after rearranging the eggs nicely) and about half the eggs in the clutch I dug up today were on the deflated side while the others were nice and plump.

In the past when I have had hard or really splotchy looking yellow eggs they were infertile. The one iffy egg I have has a yellowish look rather than pearly white so I am watching it carefully in case it's a bad one.

I'm just hoping this year that I don't have a repeat of last summer. Had a nice healthy looking clutch go full term only to later find out they were not fertile when 2 weeks past the hatching date they suddenly caved in. I cut them open to find nothing but yolk.

-----
_____

PHWyvern

"I cut them open to find nothing but yolk."

So did ya' make scrambled dragon eggs? Wonder what those would taste like !

Sorry, couldn't resist!
-----
Rob Talkington