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Hi everyone just wanted to do and egg update, the frist 33 are fine and doing well. These were laid this past weekend another 27 great looking eggs, well three of them don't look great but as Frank keeps telling me let them be. So I am.

Thats 60 total. I am giving my female the rest of the summer off. I don't know if I could handle another 30 what am I ever going to do with all the captive bred savs huh ?

Please rethink the, summer off, statement. Your female is doing what I call a run out. That is, shes going to lay many clutches. If you support her, she will be fine. She may do this for a year or two. Then return to a more normal, one or two clutches a year.

Heres the problem. If you feed here, heck even if you don't, she will still lay eggs. Only the effect will be far worse on her. If you do not allow a male, she will merely lay infertile eggs, which again is much harder on her. At times they will form eggs only to absorb them and become infected. Man thats a bad thing.

My advice is, saddle up cowboy, and go for the ride. Keep her healthy by doing what you have been and all things will be fine. With the possible exception of you have far to many baby monitors to deal with. Again congrats and ride that horse cowboy. FR

Alright Frank, your the expert and your advice has never been wrong. I have her eating and drinking regularly and as long as it's ok I will let the male back with her in a few weeks. Guess I am headed to the store to get another cooler to make another incubator. Again thank you for all your help and kind words.

Regards,
JC

Anyone want October babies

This statement might get a lot of argument going but consider this.

If the health of you monitor stands to be better with her laying fertile eggs and you don't have anything to do with that many babies why not consider not incubating them all?

If you truly carry them long enough to start hatching and absolutely know that you can have a high hatch rate then you can control the amount of future babies by knowing how many eggs you intend to incubate.

Just a thought.........& congrats for real!!!!

Congrats! Finally some true cb babies! I hope you get a 100% hatch rate. Can I have a baby?
Take care.

email me at anowen25@aol i would like a couple. andrew

can you shoot me an e-mail at:
goldsilverdude78@hotmail.com?

they will be hatching in october? i hope i can convince my parents to let me get one for my birthday. Anyway, e-mail me.
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Congrats again! That is awesome. I'm in total agreement with Frank. Please don't stop her. If she's going to produce just make room for the eggs.

Good job.

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Thank you all for the confidence. I will most definitely keep her breeding as long as she is healthy and fit. I know it will not cause any real difference in the collection of these guys from the wild but I am glad I can do my part. Believe me after having my first sav since I was thirteen this has been a long time goal and I am still amazed that it has happened and twice for that matter.

Thanks again everyone for the congratulations nice to know I am accomplishing something worth while to my peers

You mentioned getting another cooler. What are you using for an incubater? How is it set up? I don't have the lucky problem you have yet but would like the info for my ever growing files.

Thank you
Scott

PS. I would love to own a cb.
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Thank you. To answer your question I have two incubators right now one is a simple hovabator brand one. The other is a large 24 quart cooler half filled with water and using a fish tank heater to heat the pool. The eggs are in a small Rubbermaid shoe box with holes drilled on the sides but the lid is on to prevent condensation and too much water from getting on the eggs. I just shut the lid and use a digital probe to set the temp of the heater, once its established it stays really much consistently. Fluctuates by half a degree. That's about it. I do have the eggs in vermiculite/peralite in the box as my picture showed. No my problem is making another one of those or moving up to a cooler chest for space and size.

I will keep everyone posted on the hatchlings I know I will have more in a few weeks so September, October will be the earliest they should hatch.

Thanks again.