Flaviemys purvisi
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One of my Chelodina longicollis is back-filling her nest chamber now after laying... About to dig up my first clutch for the season. It's a perfect egg laying afternoon for turtles, 32 degrees, still and humid... Could be a storm brewing. Hope my other gravid turtles follow her lead!
Still deep in her zombie -like egg laying trance, Miss reliable, always plays ball and gets the job done without any complications. Back-filling her 1st of a possible 3 clutches for the season. If only she knew I've got to dig them all up... could save her the time and effort of filling the nest in!
A straight 10. Pretty stoked with that and they're all a good uniform size... Last year she laid 2 clutches 8 weeks apart with 2 eggs in each clutch about half the size of the rest. Those hatchies were the size of 5c coins upon hatching. Into a container of vermiculite dampened with water by weight at 1:1
Into the Incubator set at 28 degrees C. I should know how many if any are fertile/viable within the next 12 to 72 hours.
Now we wait. Fingers crossed!
Still deep in her zombie -like egg laying trance, Miss reliable, always plays ball and gets the job done without any complications. Back-filling her 1st of a possible 3 clutches for the season. If only she knew I've got to dig them all up... could save her the time and effort of filling the nest in!
![20191027_164933.jpg 20191027_164933.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/201/201710-d427b5866a97959b22796fa1694eaeb3.jpg)
A straight 10. Pretty stoked with that and they're all a good uniform size... Last year she laid 2 clutches 8 weeks apart with 2 eggs in each clutch about half the size of the rest. Those hatchies were the size of 5c coins upon hatching. Into a container of vermiculite dampened with water by weight at 1:1
![20191027_170913.jpg 20191027_170913.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/201/201711-b53a7b7d504d17061ad46954dff1192d.jpg)
Into the Incubator set at 28 degrees C. I should know how many if any are fertile/viable within the next 12 to 72 hours.
![20191027_171004.jpg 20191027_171004.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/aussiepythons/data/attachments/201/201712-12e59da4e1465313f962f987c5dfe1da.jpg)
Now we wait. Fingers crossed!