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Well, after goin going on vacation for a week, I decided to make changes at the 110 day incubation mark. I transferred the eggs from my normal incubator to my water based incubator(higher humidity) and all 5 (100%) hatched within 24hrs! This really makes sense, from what I'm figuring. As naturally that would probably line up the hatching with the rainy season. From what I can make out, the eggs had been fully developed and just sitting dormant untill I bumped the humidity up.

All hatchlings are fat, healthy and lively. No yolk left in the eggs at all. Now it's just waiting to see what kind of sex ratios I'm dealing with. I may part with one or two if I'm real heavy on one end.

Also, just on a side note I hatched 100% on my Climacs this year also. Which is good considering the tragedy with my Taiwans hatching 2 of 18, with the 16 unhatched fully developed, dead, inside the egg.

I'll try to get some pictures when I get a chance.
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Conrad
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Awesome Conrad, just awesome. I'm very happy for you.

Now don't get rid of those, please. Build up a colony of CB so we can get these things established in the US.

But you've already heard that from me...

Nope, I think I'll sell them all for $20 each! Yikes, nope...lol I'm not going to part with any for cheap...so let it be known, that I'm not "trying" to sell these. But if I'm extremely male heavy and the price is right...I've got bills to pay...lol
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Conrad
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Conrad,

Well I'm short on males. Way short. Send me an e-mail.

A friend hatched a clutch of 5-6 eggs, but only 2 survived, 3-4 had hydrocephalus. I think could be a problem of high temp (in this hot summer in the last month of incubation up to 86°F) or of short incubation, mi friend did a cut at about 100 days, should be the fluid hadn't the right time for absorbing.
Yours hatched in 110, which was the average incubation temp?
thank you
nazzza
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I hope this year I'll breed succesfully my 1.2

My average temp was right around 80. I didn't let it waiver much over, but couldn't go much less due to having to share incubator space with other species. The only thing I switched up was moving them to the higher humidity incubator at 110 days, which seemed to promt them to hatch...maybe in nature the eggs are layed during a fairly dry period and as able to wait this "long period" untill a wet season provides the nessary enviroment for the young to survive...?

Just a theory...
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Conrad
Too Fast Reptiles
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