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Hey there Marcia! Ithas been awhile since I posted. Been real busy moving. Olympia just delivered 10 eggs this morning. We are building an incubator tonight. What do you use on the bottom?

I was just cleaning out my mailbox and ran across an email about Olympia. Glad to hear she is still around! I still like that name!

I don't put anything in the bottom of the foam box, just use perlite or vermiculite in the tubs that I put the eggs themselves in. I do put a small bowl of water in the box to keep a bit of humidity in there.

So, any of the other eggs hatch for you? You have babies running around yet? or eggs getting close?
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Marcia - FroggieB Dragons
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since you are asking this question I am guessing no! Don't know where my head is lately, maybe on my store!
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Marcia - FroggieB Dragons
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Now Marcia, that is silly! Why would your head be on a store?

Oh, wait, never mind!
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Ryan

Thanks Ryan! I need a good laugh lately! That was pretty funny. Guess I should have said my mind, maybe that would have been silly too, but not quite as much!

Really though, when I'm not at the store working I'm at the other building getting it ready for our move. I'm demolishing an old bandstand. Its 2 tiered and built like a brick you know what. It is covered with 70's shag carpet and has had an animal display on it for the last 18 years so it is covered with river rock and dirt. What a mess!

So, you can see why my head is on the building!
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Marcia - FroggieB Dragons
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None of them hatched. The situation seemed perfect, but within 2 months, they schrivelled and died. Any advise? Temp was about 70, humidity about 50. I really tried too! So sad. Olympia is doing great. She has a great personality. When I went to check remove the eggs, I noticed some were dimpled. What does this mean?

If the substrate isn't moist enough they could just be dryed out a bit and the humidity in your incubation medium should plump them back up. otherwise it is possible that they are infertile and are already starting to collapse.

Have you tried to candle them yet? If not use a small penlite flashlight like a mini-mag and shine it through the egg. If the egg glows pinkish then it should be fertile. If it glows yellow it may not be but neither is a positive!
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Marcia - FroggieB Dragons
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Olympia is one of Marcia's isn't she?

I've kept the humidity closer to 60%. When it got down to 50 I would find some eggs sinking. With my first clutch I didn't know they would plump up again with more moisture so I destroyed 2 thinking they were bad. Since then I have used Marcia's advice about waiting for them to look like a science experiment gone bad. I had 100% hatch with my last clutch and 5 of the eggs were surgically removed. Some of them candled yellow right up to hatching. A couple were brown and some of the shells weren't well calciumized (don't think that's a word but I hope you know what I mean). I was truly suprized at that. 2 of the babies are quite a bit smaller than the others. Wonder if that had anything to do with it.

Good luck with the eggs. It's a great experience.
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BONNIE