Time to Hatch

Its been awhile since I wrote anything on here I had allot going on during the past few weeks. It has been 57 days since Feather laid her last egg. the egg has been incubating and getting larger for 54 days. It takes anywhere between 60 and 70 days to hatch these eggs.

Before and after the picture to the right was taken at the beginning 

of incubation on day 3 and the picture to the left was taken on day 57.

I incubated the egg on damp pearlite substrate to keep the humidity above 90% but keep mold from growing on the egg. The temperature in the incubator varied from 75 to 82 degrees F.

I'm very excited to see this egg hatch as well as see what color morph the new born will be.

A New Addition

So today I woke up and decided to check up on my Crested Gecko trio which consist of 2 females (Olive and Feather) and one male (Mango). So any way I was checking on them throwing out old food and cleaning their enclosure when I found 2 eggs which I believe belong to Feather and of course Mango. I then made a makeshift incubator from an old container I had. Today would make day one of incubation.

 Mango (Top) and Feather (Bottom). The camera doesn't do them justice.

I did some research on crested gecko eggs and incubation information. what I found they hatch after about 60 – 70 days from being laid and should be kept between 72 – 80 degrees F. I have the eggs on dampened perlite to keep eggs from drying out and keep mold from forming on the eggs.

The Egg. The line on top of it is to determine which side is up. 

Turning the egg can be fatal to the embryo.

So I have them in the “oven” and i will record their progress as time goes on. Wish me luck!