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If I think I have a infertile male can I swap it out with a known fertile male to finish the season??? The reason I ask is that I purchased a jungle tremper albino male that is now 11 months old and breed him in Jan. to my proven breeding females and two of my females first cluches(now 40 days into incubating at 80 deg.) are starting to mold and dent and the rest (4 more eggs in all) are molding. Now would I be able to swap out this jungle tremper and introduce my fertile tremper in hopes of being able to start getting fertile eggs??? My females have produced in the past with this proven breeder so that is why I am confident they (male and females) are fertile. The females and male are on their seconed season breeding and they are three years old.I also have been using abbeys way of incubating the eggs.If you can help please respond, thanks in advance.

okay lets do this one question at a time, the eggs that you believe are infertile, mold is common of two high humidity, try dipping them in a 1:10 bleach water solution, let them dry and place them back, modify your humidity and see if that doesn't help. As far as denting, I have had eggs that looked dented or misshapen and they hatched out fine, you'll have to be more specific, do they smell? how do they feel? (squishy or stale marshmallow like). Next you can swap males, but females retain sperm so it's no guarantee the new males sperm will be used, it's kind of a race of the sperm to who gets there first.. But you can give it a shot.. Finally, the incubator, can you describe the setup? It will allow us all to have a better understanding of whats going on in there....

I havent checked the humidity in 2 of my 3 containers because I set them up exactly like abbey shows on her site( since she knows what she is doing)but it might be a good idea anyway. The third container is set up with moistened perilite and has a humidity guage in it showing 75 percent humidity(a humidity rate I have hatched out before with)and they are starting to mold.As far as a incubator I use a old converted apt. refridge set at 80 deg. using a helix controller(my first time using this method), my seconed incubator is a hobavator( which I have used before)set at 88 deg..As far as denting I too have had them dent but only in the final 7 to 10 days of incubating, not this early and not as severe as these(pretty much colapsed halfway in).I will try the bleach method with my starting to mold eggs and cross my fingers.

You could swap...but I would make sure that the humidity and temps in the incubator aren't the problem first...even fertile eggs will mold if humidity is too high.
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Christina

Leopard Gecko Morph Descriptions

2.3 leos
-0.1 tangerine het rainwater albino w/jungle background (Blinkers)
-0.2 jungles (Vahz & Skissor)
-1.0 tremper albino (Spitfire)
-1.0 tangerine rainwater albino (Bronx)

Hi

You could swap out the male, but it would take about three more egg layings from your females before the new males sperm would start to take effect.

Kind of wipe down your females all over before putting the new male in, so he doesn't smell the other male on them.

There was once a female that had been in with a male and then a different male had been put in and he really gave her a bad bite, so then she was taken out and wipped down with a disinfectant that was reptile safe that the vet. uses and put back into the tank and the male was nice to her then and no more problems.

TLB