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thanks alot...i read that but i just wanted to make sure...dont wanna mess up. he/she is beautiful. and keeps movin around being cute! this is so exciting.

You can leave the babies in the incubator for 48 hours or so with no problems.. a lot of people keep them in their 24 hours or until the external cord falls off if still attached.

Leaving them in their 24 to 48 hours on moist paper towels helps keep them hydrated and enables them to rest after hatching from the egg. Dangers of removing them too fast can be dehydration or exposure to external heat sources too fast which can cause a lot of problems especially if they do not have the energy to move away or fight off other dragons.

It's better to leave them in too long then too short I think. A good rule of thumb we use is we always remove them once they come out of the egg into containers with moist paper towels still inside the incubator. Once they are active and running around they are removed to a rearing bin.

Congrats on the eggs hope that helped.

brandon
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that totally helped. thanks alot. i will keep them in a bit longer. there are 3 now. 15 to go! i appreciate the advise!

I leave one or two dragons in the "egg" container until they have all hatched. "It is thought" that the moving around of the hatched dragons can signal to the others still in their eggs, that it's time to hatch.
The time I did take each out as they hatched, I had some eggs hatch 4 days out from the first. That can make a big difference in hierarchy differences (if you are keeping them in groups)

I do not like to keep them all in the egg container after they hatch though. I have had some eggs turned over from too much traffic. lol

Good luck.
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Joel R

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thats an interesting idea. i had thought about that, too. i was unsure for the safety, incase the babies ate the vermiculite. any thoughts on that? thanks

They tend not to eat much of anything for the first few days anyway. I have never heard of any problems from that ever happening???
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Joel R

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Very interesting Joel... never had that problem but it stands to make sense. I will keep that in mind in case we ever have that problem... normally the way it works out with the large clutches for us that by the time the last "24 hour" batch to be placed in the rearing bin is ready to go all eggs have pipped.

Cool info though thanks!
brandon
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Dragons by Nature

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Dragons by Nature

which can take up to 3 days. i leave mine in the incubator for an average of 2-3 days
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sincerely,
Jonathan D. de Kluyver
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