Sorry for the late reply Mayday, thanks for the info! If my eggs hatch I will definately try foods that are high in B-carotene: your animals look stunning! I do give my adults some beta carotene (for canaries) in the turtle jelly that I make.

Do you have any advice about incubating eggs of this species? I have had many eggs but most have proven infertile (no white band developed). I usually keep them at room temperature (65-77F) for 30 days to break diapause, then incubate them at about 85F. I had the first clutch of 4 develop in 2005 but these died in their shells, probably due to too high substrate humidity. This year, a clutch of 3 is developing this way, at lower humidity, but 3 others are not. I'm trying to think why I would have only 2 clutches out of 9 (each 2-5 eggs) fertile? All from the same female, the first fertile clutch was fathered by a different male though.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!

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