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I've got five Saharan uro eggs in the incubator that seem to be doing well. My yellow female laid eggs that she punctured with her claws and the few she didn't puncture all shriveled and died within a week or so. The orange/red female laid almost a dozen eggs and didn't puncture them. It was so cool because I never had to separate my trio when the females were gravid, like I was told I would need to do. They are so friendly to each other that the orange female actually laid her eggs on top of the other female and the male while they were sleeping at night! Talk about a trusting lizard! So I removed them and put them in a 92 degree incubator but they began shriveling up and dying off as the yellow females had. I guess I was treating them like my beardie eggs, thinking that they were from a more dry climate so they should be at least as dry. I was misting them and had them in damp vermiculite. But luckily before they all died I was told to add more water to the vermiculite, don't mist them and seal off the top of the container (I had it open and misted it every day as I'd had a mold problem brought it from the seeds from their enclosure) and don't open it often. This has worked now for about three weeks. One egg that was starting to shrivel has recovered and the other four that were looking good still look good. I'm so excited. I have some photos of my trio at www.picturetrail.com/dancetoday. I'll be putting some new ones in soon. -Lucy

that is great congrats!!! keep us updated!
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Lauren
Rico-Saharan Uromastyx
New Jersey

That's so exciting--keep us posted!

2.2 Saharans (Apollo--yellow, Orion--orange/Athena and Maya--orange)