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My high yellow female just laid her fisrts two eggs and i wasnt ready i ran out and bought a hova-bator and im not sure if the first two are going to make it I NEED to know what to do when the rest are laid PLEAS HELP!!! as much detail as possible!!!

Hello there,

Well, first of all congratulations on your first eggs...now i am going to detail as possible some steps that will hopefully help you on incubating your eggs.

1) Plug in your hovabator, and fill the appropiate places with water (as indicated in the instructions)
2) Leave it to calibrate until it reaches an stable desirable temperature (80-82 F for females, or 84-85 and above up to 90F for males)
3) You can use either perlite or vermiculite. I use vermiculite, thus i am going to explain you how to use it: take a delicup with vermiculite add some mineral water and mix it. I do not know the right water-vermiculite proportions, but make it humid and not too wet.
4) Take the eggs and light them with a flash light from underneath, and locate the red/orange circle (embryo). When you put the eggs on the vermiculite, make sure this orange/red circle is looking up and not under the egg.
5) Leave the eggs in the incubator for 50 days, and good luck

If you have any questions, send me an email @ sales@tundrageckos.com.

David & Daniel Villar

Tundra Geckos

Tundra Geckos

Thanks for your help Will she be laying more eggs? soon?