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Hi,
It turns out that it wasn't the chuck I thought that laid the eggs, it was my smallest female. The thing is the same night I found the eggs I noticed later on that the little one looked skiny and her tail looked a bit withered, and I though, god I'll have to keep an eye on her and see if I can get some weight on her, and I couldn't understand how she could have gone down hill so fast. At this time it still never entered my mind that she could have laid the eggs as I just thought she was too small as she is half the size of my biggest female. So I was up every 15 mins all night that night waiting for more eggs from my largest female. Then in the morning still no more eggs, my largest female woke up and just started acting like her normal self, jumping around and so on and she looked fine. At this point I'm thinking hold on this isn't right, and then it started to click, as I though wait a minute I remember something about them looking withered and there tails going thin after laying and the only chuck that fitted that description was the little one. I still couldn't quite belive it due to here size, but I e-mailed a guy called Tom Grebb who breeds chucks and he said that it made more sense that it was her, and I called a local reptile shop and the guy there said the same thing, and they both said the same as I was thinking that it made sense as there wer only 4 eggs. Any way I also remembered that it said to offer water to them after laying, and as soon as I did she started lapping at it and seemed to perk up straight away and then an hour or so later her tail looked a bit plumper. She didn't eat much that day but today she has eaten much more so she is doing fine. So that's another huge supprise to me, it's a bit of a roller coaster this chuck breeding lark isn't it lol. Tom answered all my questions any way, but if you feel you have some more advice for me I'm always happy to take it on board, as I'm always looking for new info.
Thanks
Martin

How do the eggs look after a couple days? Keep us posted
Tom Greb

Hi again Tom,
Thanks again for the info the other day, the eggs are ok I think, I can't really see a differnce in shape, when I took the picture below I touched them and they all seem hard, yet two of them are still crinkled. As far as I can remember the ones covered in sand were already hard when I took them out. I tried to rub a bit of sand off those two like the guy I spke to on the phone said, but it is so caked on that it won't come off, it's almost as if it's mixed with glue, is this a big problem?. I'm thinking about candeling them, as I saw a video on you tube of a woman candeling crested geko eggs. I'm a bit reluctant, but it would be good to know what I'm dealing with. I mean I know that the male mated with the two smaller ones, but that still deosn't mean they are definately fertile. I have seen him have a go at the larger female but she got away before they could mate, but they may have mated at some point. Any way let me know what you think of the eggs on the pic.
Thanks
Martin