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My female leopard gecko has appeared to be gravid for a while now, and last night i moved her into her own tank thinking any day she would be laying. This morning i checked her, and she had one egg out and the second egg on the way. She laid the eggs in regular flukers brand moss, dampened thouroughly. I dont want to buy an incubator for two eggs, so is there any other way to incubate them? i know it takes around 60 days for them to hatch, and to keep them around 86-90 degrees. ANy simple solutions to this would be a great help. They are sitting in the moss until i learn how to correctly incubate them. (these are her first eggs hatched.)

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find a spot that stays somewhere between 80 - 90, and doesnt fluctuate to much. i think they would be ok with a 2 degree fluctuation, but i dunno about more. make sure the actual eggs dont get too wet, but the air is humid.
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Female leos lay more than just 2 eggs...most likely you will end up with 6-10 eggs by the time she is done for this year. An incubator is a good thing to have on hand (you can buy still air ones sold for 20-30 bucks at Feed/Grain stores for poultry eggs). If not, you can always try this:
Get a tupperware container, a bag of perlite, a piece of slate to put the container on, a reptile UTH (big enough to cover the entire underside of the slate), a thermostat (to attach to the UTH), and a wall mounted terrarium thermometer (to put on the slate). Fill the tupperware container halfway with damp perilte. Moisten the perlite by soaking it in water and then squeezing the excess water out with paper towels. Bury the eggs halfway in the perlite (don't rool them, keep them in the position that you found them in) and cover the container with its cover. Place the adhesive UTH on the bottom of the slate piece (make sure to put the little rubber feet on the corners of the slate to provide an air space) and plug the UTH into the thermostat which will then be plugged into an outlet. Take the wall thermometer and stick it on part of the slate to regulate its temp (temps should be 80-90 degrees a stable temp is preferred). Place the tupperware on the warm slate. Keep the "incubator" in a room where the temp doesn't vary much).
An easier way would be to find a place in your house where the temp stays above 80 but under 90 and keep the eggs in a tupperware filled with perlite there until you can get a better setup.

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1:1 leos (4 eggs cooking)

the eggs will probly dry out if left in the cage but you can build your own incubator. youll need a big styrofaom container, a water heater, a large glass jar, a thermometer and a tupperware container. fill the jar with water and mark a line where the top of the water is(so you can keep it at the same level) put the water heater in the jar and put the jar and heater into the styrofoam container. put the eggs in the tupperware and bury them halfway with the moss. put the lid on(with some little holes in it and turn on the heater. measure the temp and get it just where you want it and then you should be good.
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