After 229 days of incubation, at a daily temp high of 82 and nights of 77, after they turned a decidedly yellow hue a week after putting them on fine vermiculite, after candling them several times during that time even a few weeks ago, and not being to distinguish any "veins" or body mass at all like in a chicken egg, only some darker and lighter oranges, yellows, small dark spots, and such, today they started coming out! I had forgotten just how small thier parents were when I got them at 1 week old 15 months ago.
After way passing the magic "6 month" time frame the breeder who sold the parents to me talked about, I was loosing hope and my fly cultures dried up and now I have to get an emergency culture start!
I have 2 more clutches from the same pair but on different media. We'll see if that changes appearances and times.
I also talked to Jim from Chamco, and he mentioned that he had had a couple of eggs from one clutch hatch 3 months after the clutchmates in the same box did.
I guess what I want to say is as long as they don't collapse, and get moldy, there's still hope!
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John D.
Glendale, AZ
3.0.1 Blackthroat Monitors: Clawed, Claudio, Dekembe, Mbasa
5.8 Leopard Geckos (normals, albinos, hypos, tangs, blizard, giant)
1.3.1 Fattails: Valrhona, Godiva, Peaches, Rattle, Copper
1.2 Veilds: Mahmud, Umayma, Aliya
1.2 Oustallet's: Gascar, Maddie, Lettie
1.3 Ambanja Panther: Maximillian, Celeste, Gloria, Candice
All of these (and a few more) are in my 4th grade classroom!
I am sure you are glad you didn't - and of course all your little chams. Hope they all hatch out and remain healthy!
