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well, my girlfriend called me yesterday and said, " you're going to be mad" and i was thinking.... oh great... she goes on to tell me that the bedroom ( which is where i keep my uroplatus, and rhac eggs) was 95 degrees! this was at about 7PM yesterday evening. my incubator was at 90, and i was pretty amazed the uroplatus were in as good of condition as they were, they looked perfectly normal.
hopefully my eggs will still hatch
needless to say, the other roomate got quite a lecture about messing with the thermostat ( again). he agreed to keep it at 68 unless he consults me first. i'd rather keep it a bit low than way too hot!!!

oh man, that sucks. but i definitely feel you on the whole thing about giving roommates lectures about temperatures. my roommates moan all the time saying "it's too cold" blah blah blah. i pay $75 more a month than either of them, so each time i have to remind them of that. the thermostat here is also downstairs, and i keep all my stuff upstairs in my room, so i keep a fan on during the summer, otherwise it gets 80 during the summer up here. my one roommate always tries to get me to turn off the fan, and sometimes i come home to it turned off. i swear to god, if i even come home to that turned off and dead gecko(s), im gonna rip him a new one.

Wow, sounds like my situation as well guys. But it's my sister, not a friend. She'll turn up the thermostat when things get just a little bit cool at night during the summer and I like to cool down the place at night and it drives me crazy. Like put o na sweat shirt or something, it's not difficult. And she also comes in to my room and turns off my fan or humidifier if it is running sometimes to save electricity, meanwhile she keeps here computer on 24/7 and the fan almost constantly goes in that thing. It's driving me bonkers how she will risk heating up the place too much for that couple of degrees, can't wait for my own place come fall.

Mike

I am so glad I have my own place. my roomate and I are both cold liking people. Well, I actually like it in the high 60's/low 70's. GO SAN FRANCISCO WEATHER!!!

I have to worrry about the opposite though, too hot naturally and not cold enough otherwise.

Jason

Don't count those eggs out. They should hatch. Let me tell you the story of my first crested to ever hatch.
We had just removed the mulch from our gecko tank and put it in a large paper bag. Then I put the bag in our greenhouse so the other half could use it to mulch the flower beds. It stayed in the greenhouse for a week at temperatures in the HIGH 90's and mulch dried out.

Then the mulch was taken and laid out in a flower bed and raked out one morning. About 8 hours later I went out in the front yard and just happened to look down at the area that had been mulched and there sitting in the hot sun baking for 8 hours was a crested gecko egg.

I took it in and thought "Too bad our first egg and it is a gonner!" But I set in vermiculite and incubated it at room temp. AND IT HATCHED. We named the gecko Murphy after Murphy's Law because everything that could of gone wrong did go wrong and it still hatched. She is a beautiful dalmation female just a few month's shy of being breeding age.

So I think your eggs stand a good chance of hatching. They are tougher than we think.

that's quite a story. after halfway i was expecting you to say you walked out into the front yard and found a baby crested! but it's still crazy! i had one hatch out after an 88 degree temp that occurred a few weeks before hatching.