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My beardie has finally stopped laying eggs, a total of 22 laid now. 10 were bad right away, crushed and so on, and now i have 12 in incubator. But today when i got up 3 of them were green and 2 more and caving in. Am I causing this somehow? I got the temp at 83-84 degrees and I got water in the bottom for humidity. I have done everything I have been told to do but it seems to not be working...... PLEASE HELP!!! thanks....

green is usually a sign of infertile eggs starting to rot and grow mold/fungus. next they will turn brown. The dets can mean insufficient humidity or the eggs were really bad to start. Humidity should be about 50% or a bit more. Some people go much higher.
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Bennett

Home Of The Florida Orange
www.beardiedragon.com

do you have the eggs in vermiculite? if so is the vermiculite moistened? also does the container that the eggs are in have a cover over it?
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sincerely,
jonathan
JDDK Reptiles www.jddkreptiles.com

ok, yes they are in vermiculite, yes it is moistened, and no i do not have a lid for it.....is that bad?? i didn't know whether or not if i should put it on it.......should i?? thanks for the replies.....

yes you do need a lid on top of the eggs. same thing happened to my friend... he didnt have a lid on the eggs and they all went bad.
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sincerely,
jonathan
JDDK Reptiles www.jddkreptiles.com

man your quick...thanks alot...but how far should the eggs be from the lid...the container is probably on an inch deep so the lid will be right on the eggs...do i need a deeper container??
thanks for the quick reply!!!