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yesterday i changed the vermiculite because i thought it was too wet in there and then i thought the eggs were looking better and now two of them are denting. if these eggs all die i will be 0/25. that is just a terrible percentage. i don't want to be the babyless outcast of the forum.
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vonnie
***Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. Mae West ***

To manage them all ! You'll see !
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Eve / PHEve

gee that would be nice and then i could give lizard kisses all day long. waiting for a lizard baby is worse than waiting for everyone to wake up on christmas morning
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vonnie
***Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. Mae West ***

Probably it was just dumb luck that I even have one hatchling. I had such little hope of my injured female even successfully laying that I wasn't ready and didn't have an incubater for the first week. I put the eggs in the same sand in which they were laid and kept it moist and put it where I thought it was warm. I got a hova-bator, and vermiculite. I put the vermiculite in a clear glass Pryex pie pan, and placed the pan on the screen in the bottom of the incubator. I put the eggs in the pie pan and almost covered them with vermiculite. I just left a tiny spot of each egg uncovered so that I did not have to dig to look for them. I made grooves in the vermiculite around each egg and every few days added water there, not right on or very near the eggs. I tried to keep it moist but not wet. A couple of times the eggs dimpled, but adding water helped and the dimples went away after a few hours. I put the thermometer in the vermiculite with the eggs, so I could read it through a window. It is pretty dry here too, and I thought about the high desert where Saige would have laid those eggs had she not been caught. I wonder what the success rate for hatching in the wild is? And how many that make it to hatch make it to adulthood or even the first year? I am betting not very many, at least here where we get so little rain, and one hatched everything wants to eat them! Anyway, don't dispair, these eggs are going to hatch! I wish you the best of luck and I know you will be a great momma for the lil guys! Valerie

don't get to worried and jump to conclusions just yet and asume the worst. as far as i know the eggs will collapse just prior to hatching. One question remains, how long have they been incubating.Who knows you be a proud owner of some baby collareds soon.
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infinitescales.com

well i am not sure of the exact day because she was speedy about it but it has only been like the last week so nowhere near the hatch date. i added a little bit of water and they did not dent anymore so i added a bit more to see if they will reinflate. ths is my first batch with an incubator which is why i thought that they might have a better chance. i will just have to see.
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vonnie
***Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. Mae West ***