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29-Dec-06, 03:10 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: Cairns Q'ld | | |  Bearded dragons
Hi to every one hope you all had a great xmas and wishing everyone a great new year.
My son has a breeding pair of bearded dragons (just purchased) The female (naturally) just laid a clutch of eggs (12) on her cage bottom. Substrate is the paper rolls, like kitty litter. We marked the tops and placed in my friends incubator ,all seemed OK under lights etc for two to three days then all eggs went either green or rather smelly. Ok so we know they are all dead now but I wondered if the kitty litter absorbed the moisture from the eggs befoe they had time to harden up. Any clues???
Also sand area in enclosure but mum laid where she wanted.
Would an area of spagnum moss available in the enclosure help??
Any suggestions would be appreciated
Russ |
29-Dec-06, 03:17 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Cairns | | | | Kitty litter is the wrong thing to be incubating on. Most people use vermiculite or perlite, some use sand or sphagnum moss but not recommended.
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29-Dec-06, 03:20 PM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: South Australia Gender:  | | | | Dont give up on em. My eggs have abit of mould on them, is it like Hair?
You may still have growing embryos in the eggs. The reason being, there may be too much moisture in the incubation container. If there is water dripping from the inside of the lid, clean it up now! Put a tissue or thin absorbent cloth over the top then place the lid on again.
What temp are they being incubated at?
Shawn
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03-Jan-07, 02:57 PM
| | | | you could of or maybe still can, lightly place a damp tissue over the eggs for 24 hours which can sometimes restore moisture back into the eggs....also do they have dints in the eggs where they have kind of imploded.....sorry about my choice of words.
-Jared |
13-Jan-07, 06:35 PM
|  | IrRegular Member Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Melbourne Age/Gender: 17 | | | | yes, get a piece of paper towel, dampen it it and wring it out.
then lighty place it over the eggs, leave it on them for 24 hours and hopefully that will restore moisture to the eggs.
eggs that have dimples are dehydrated- so the paper towel can re-hydrate them.
when a lizard lays her eggs on sand, you must tend to them quickly, as sand sucks the moisture out of them
hope this helps for next time.
cheers chris | |
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