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hi everyone. i have 2 water dragons named leo and katie. recently my water dragon, katie laid 6 egg. i have an incubator and i candeled them and 4 out of the 6 are fertile.

reptilechk989

What kind of incubator? WD eggs need to be kept fairly humid,I've found that the submersable water heater type incubators work better then the hovabators. Also if you make sure that the eggs are buried at least 75% of the way in the substrate, that will improve your hatching rate as well. Basically just a strip of white showing for each egg, good luck.

Hi well i found out that all of my eggs are fertile!!! but when i checked on them i saw brown stains on them. NO mold, dents, cracks, anything wrong, just brown stains. im thinking it's from the moss. Also sometimes there are REALLY REALLY tiny bugs crawling over them.........will they eat through it????????

also is it normal for the shell to have a bunch of lines???

reptilechk989
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1.1 water dragons (leo and katie)
1.1.2 leopard geckos (gex, spottie, sundae and bloo)
1 pond
.1 cockatiel(rosie)
1 budgy (babee)
.1 cat (g.g)

doesn't sound good. Generally speaking any discoloration is bad. Fertilily is only half the battle, if the eggs aren't keeped right they may do well right up until the last day, but then fail to hatch because the embryos are too weak. Usually little bugs(soil mites) even maggots, won't attack a heathly egg, but they can so its important to keep the incubator sterile. Don't worry if you mess this one up, you'll have other chances and next time you'll be better prepared. Here are some general guide lines that will help you hatch them successfully.

1. Use a water heater type incubator.

2. incubate at 83, 82-86 is the acceptable range, but you will be most successful at 83.
3 in a tupperware or similar container mix 10 parts vermiculite to 3 parts water by volume, this is the egg substrate.
4. Dig up the eggs as soon as they are layed. Without turning them, bury them 75% of the way in the egg substrate. Make sure the points at each length of the eggs are completely buried. Discard any yellow or discolored eggs.
5. cover the eggs with a loose layer of moss.
6.Place the egg container in the incubator so as to protect the eggs from moisture. I.e. use a slanted piece of plastic as a drip guard. Humidity is good, moisture is deadly, you should avoid any water droplets from coming in contact with the eggs, this means no spraying!
7. Avoid handling, and remove any discolored eggs imediately.
8. If any flies or other creatures invade the incubator, prepare new substrate and tranfer the eggs.

well to all your worries and my suprise, the four hatched!!!! two other eggs died. they were all fertile, but two had just died. they are all healthy and running around the temps were around 84-86 and took some what 78 days i believe.

thnx
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1.1 water dragons (leo and katie)
1.1.2 leopard geckos (gex, spottie, sundae and bloo)
1 pond
.1 cockatiel(rosie)
1 budgy (babee)
.1 cat (g.g)