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Ok, I bought a B.D. for my son (and I) about 2 years ago and it turned out to be a female. This spring I bought a male and about 3 weeks later she started dropping eggs. The egg laying mostly occurred over 2-3 days but there was about a 10-12 day span between the first and last.

Here is my problem....they ALL went bad (about 20). Collapsed and rotted. The first few came out looking almost opaquely white but most came out semi-translucent with a yellow-whitish color....I candled a few and it looked like one or two might have embryos.

I had them in a Hovator...80 degrees with maybe 75% humidity. When I first put them in the Hovator...I had the play sand they sat in really wet...and I figured I over humidified them but the later eggs weren't treated like that. Eggs were situated in thumb sized depressions.

Any thoughts? Were they possibly all infertile or since there were eggs rotting around them into the sand...it polluted the others? The lizards are in great health but I REALLY want to avoid having this happen again. (I thought I'd read and prepared sufficiently)

Thankyou in advance for any advice you can provide.

Since you had such a large span of time between the eggs, I would venture to guess that they were not fertile eggs.

Just a guess
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Though it is not completely necesary you will have more success with fertile eggs if your dragons go through a brumation period. Males will frequently shoot a lot of blanks if they are not cooled before breeding. I would keep the dragons separate until you have an opprtunity to do this as you really want to reduce the chances of her continuing to throw unfertile eggs. She may continue if when separated but at least she won't have the stress of continual breeding.

Mike
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