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I came home this evening to find two eggs in one of my gecko cages! They were layed on the tile and I am not sre how long they have been there! They weren't there 9-10 hours ago when I changed the water in the cage. When I found them they were sunken in.

She has a lay box with vermiculite that is humid so I am not sure why they were layed on tile.

When I found them I immediately put them in the vermiculiteon the warm side of the cage. Are they save-able?

Thanks for your help!!!

Suzanne

Take them out of the cage and buy a little giant incubator. To learn how to set up your incubator, visit This page and read the "incubation" section.
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It might be possible to save them. Put them in a tupperware type container with moist vermiculite or pearlite (75% water by weight to the weight of the substrate). Then I would recomend lightly misting all to see if they will pop back up, this may take a few days of mistings. Its okay to mist the eggs too, if they were buried in the wild they would certainly get moisture sometimes. You can incubate them in the top of the closet if you don't have an incubator. Good luck, Mark.

Definitely follow these guys advice on incubating and do your best to incubate the eggs. I would do the same, cause you never know. But, just so you're not too disappointed, in my experience the very first set of eggs a gecko lays are often not fertile. Its like they do a dry run the first time before going into real production. And it sounds like this is your leo girl's first eggs. Also, in my experience, if a leo just drops her eggs wherever instead of carefully burying them, its also a strong indication that the eggs arent fertile. I dont know HOW they know, but I swear they seem to KNOW. So the bad news is, your eggs have 2 strikes against them. But the good news is, the NEXT set of eggs she lays will be KEEPERS! (oh, I'm assuming there is a male involved somewhere). Keep an eye out for them buried in the laybox this time, meanwhile learn all you can about incubation, and "practice" incubating with the eggs you have now. Just dont feel bad if these ones collapse, mold, whatever. I'm pretty sure they're just practice ones and theres no little leo-let in there. GOOD LUCK with the next ones!!!!!!! Breeding is really fun.