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Found these in shaded part of yard (Florida)under old beach umbrella I couldnt leave them as throwing away the umbrella .

I placed them as found them without turning them in container with moist paper towel in container with holes in lid placed in backyard shadded patio which is same temp as area I found them .

Are they snake eggs however they are hard not leathery ? We have scarlets and corals in the area .

Whatever it is if they actually hatch will ofcourse be released that day

Thanks

Those are turtle eggs.

Sorry, didn't see the dime. Probably lizard eggs; snake eggs tend to be more sausage-shaped and leathery.

lol oh you stink when I read your first reply I was so happy as love turtles and would love tiny musk turtles for my pond .

oh well Lizards are good to imagine skink maybe curlytail as both found in the yard .

Will ofcourse post pics when/if they hatch

n/p
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

You were both correct 3 hatched today they will be released tonight in backyard .
Hope the other 3 eggs hatch soon

Nice! It's a shame it's an exotic, but it's still very cool that you got the little guys to hatch for you.

I didnt know they were exotics thought they were part of Florida.
all hatched today and let go in yard by the palm trees

LOL!!,....way to go!, those little guys are so cute!

Those guys are really great with helping to control insects. They just LOVE to hang around outside porch lights, etc... at night.

best regards, ~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

we have some marbled geckos in the area not just the common house geckos but these were all common house geckos .

I had hoped they would be marbleds actually hoped Scarlet kings .I let them all go tonight as all hatched

That's good news they all hatched and were released.

Yes,....wishful thinking about them being Scarlet King eggs up under the umbrella!..

I really like Scarlet Kings, and have breed several in the past. I actually specialize in several forms of Lampropeltis, mainly milksnakes. The Scarlet King's care and husbandry can be quite a bit more dificult sometimes than other subspecies of milksnakes.

best regards, ~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

How about hondo eggs maybe I can find those under an umbrella lol.

Why wouldnt a scarlet king lay eggs under a beach umbrella in the back yard?

Do they lay eggs in a particular area in the wild?

I see eggs here and there but never touch them this bunch I had to as was cleaning up the yard otherwise would have left them.
All hatched within 48 hours and off they want into the night .

> "Why wouldnt a scarlet king lay eggs under a beach umbrella in the back yard?"

> "Do they lay eggs in a particular area in the wild?"

* Well,....unless the umbrella was say lying down in back of a shed closed and half buried in some form of decomposing soil/leaf litter medium, the female would not have any desire whatsoever to choose that as a nesting site. They prefer dark, damp areas in the ground, or rotted logs, etc...to lay in.

On the other hand, those gecko eggs have a hard shell, so all that's really important to their hatching is correct temperature gradient, shade, and humidity from the air, and not so much consistent moisture content from soil and leaf litter. Whereas snake eggs are very soft and have a very leathery texture to them. They absorb moisture from the substrate the female lays them in. If they were deposited out in the open, they would shrivel up and die in very short order.

Below are some eggs that were laid by one of my females just three days ago. Most snake breeders(including me) put a lay box filled with moistened sphagnum moss in with the female just after she sheds her skin a month and a half or so after first breeding. usually 6 to 14 days after this "pre-lay" shed, she will situate herself in the box, and begin to lay eggs.

After egg deposition, the eggs are put into a small container of moist vermiculite, and/or Perlite mixture for an incubation medium. Kept at temps of around 80-82 degrees, they will hatch out in about 63-65 days or so.

best regards, ~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

oh I see okay thanks

TURTLE EGGS IN AN UMBRELLA?....MUST BE A NEW ARBOREAL SPECIES OF COOTER