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I couldn't help digging up uma eggs. A clutch each from my 2 females. here's a pic of the father smiling about it.
John Styner

I knew that female you posted looked eggy!

cool!

John E.

The Sonoran Desert Museum of Tucson asked me if I ever hatched fringed toed lizards. They have been trying and have only gotten the eggs but none have hatched. Let them know if you get hatchlings. They have a website to go to and you can contact the reptile staff by email.

I was going to just let them lay them in the cage and not bother to dig them up as I have 11 collared babies to deal with.

Since I got this trio of Umas I know they layed in the cage already.
But when the Umas went to dig to deposit the second clutch they dug up the previous eggs and I found them dug out and thrown out in the open. they looked good, alive, partially developed and very thin skinned. I gathered them and put them in my incubator but they got moldy and died after a week though.

I have had a 15 and a 20 gallon all set up that I have been using to put gravid collareds in to lay so I don'y have to rip up my big viv every time I want eggs and they have layed in there so I put a gravid uma in each and sure enough they layed 4 and 5 fertle eggs . One clutch was layed in a surprisingly dry area.

I read somewhere on the net about incubating Gila eggs in a secondary container with dry substrate put in a traditional container with moist. Reasoning that the egg against a dry substrate will not rot the egg as much yet keeping the air moist. I am trying that to incubate these uma eggs in.

I have had trouble incubating Collared and Desert Ig eggs in the past due to mold /fungus and have been sucessfull the first time I've tried this method. I'll keep ya posted.
John Styner

Is that a collared I see in the background?

Fabian

yes one of the girls. they all get along fine
John Styner