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I hope someone here can point something out for me. My females are continually laying eggs about every month now. I have 4 eggs in the incubator, but it looks like they aren't going to make it.
Here is my setup:
damp perlite, 80 humidity
temps between 86-88
they are in a hovabator incubator, right next to another incubator with python eggs, which are doing fine.

The eggs seem to have a "liquid seeping through" look after the first few days, although they are not sweating. After a few more days, I can see a pink spot through the egg, which I assume means they are fertile (I will try candling the next clutch I get). After a few weeks, the eggs started to cave in, mold started to grow a bit, and if picked up the egg will collapse in and not regain its original roundness. All my geckos are just over 1 year old and weigh over 50 grams, I feed dusted mealworms, and they always lay in their humid hide. Any ideas? I'm stumped. Could it be that my 2 females are continually laying slugs? They have both laid 4 eggs so far, and look perfectly white before I put them in the incubator.

Hi

If you don't already, keep a cap of straight calcium in all your gecko tanks 24/7, that way they can lick it as they need extra, along with dusting there food with calcium at every feeding.

humidity around the eggs should be at 86 percent. You said you saw pink inside of one egg, yes, then it is fertile. You will need to add more water to the substrate as needed and open up the container at least once a week to allow exchange of air for a few seconds and then put the lid back on and in the incubator.

If fertile eggs start to collapse and it isn't time for them to hatch, you can take a moist papertowel and drap it on the eggs overnight. If it starts to work for you, but they haven't totally reinflated, then you may need to do it for a second night.

TLB