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has anyone had any success incubating eggs indoors without an incubator...meaning just leaving them slightly moist if the temp stays around 70-80 degrees?
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1.3 blandings
1.1 wood
6.10 eastern box
0.0.5 eastern box
0.0.3 Asian Giant Pond
1.2 Indian star
0.1 malaysian box

I have had success putting the eggs in moist vermiculite in a warm closet that stayed between 70-80 degrees, with a few nights dipping to 67-68 degrees with most of the eggs hatching at 59-65 days of incubation. This year I bought a hovabator incubator and had a slightly better hatch success rate.
Phil

I haven't tried with boxie eggs but I've currently got a clutch of eastern painted turtles hatching that were incubated ontop of the fridge.. it took longer and most if not all the hatchlings will be male but atleast they're hatching.
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My Site
1.2.1 Terrapene Carolina Triunguis
0.0.1 Nymphicus hollandicus
1.0 Melopsittacus undulatus
1.1 American Cocker Spaniels
1.0 American Short Hair? Cat
1.1 Rouen Ducks

I hatched 2 for 2 last year and 4 for 4 this year(Eastern Boxies)by keeping them in a closed room with the window open.I live in SC so it is the proper environment for ambient temperature incubation.