Moonfox
Active Member
Heya!
My brother was helping dad to clean up the yard yesterday and they found a buch of garden skink eggs. They took them inside, and buried them in some dirt from the same spot in a little empty fish tank.
I don't know if they'll hatch - my brother got one out today rolleyes and it was "deflated" as I put it. He squished it between his fingers before I could stop him, and said it was dead. I told him not to touch the other ones, and that it might be normal.
We checked out that egg, seeing as it was pretty stuffed after he squeezed it, and found a well-formed baby skink. He's got scales, colouring and is a few cm long. Dead as a doornail.
How should I be keeping the rest of the eggs? Should they be warmed (I have a free heat lamp) or cooled? What temperature should they be? And is shrivelling normal?
Sorry for the life story . And thanks for any help!
Edit: Some pics -
My brother was helping dad to clean up the yard yesterday and they found a buch of garden skink eggs. They took them inside, and buried them in some dirt from the same spot in a little empty fish tank.
I don't know if they'll hatch - my brother got one out today rolleyes and it was "deflated" as I put it. He squished it between his fingers before I could stop him, and said it was dead. I told him not to touch the other ones, and that it might be normal.
We checked out that egg, seeing as it was pretty stuffed after he squeezed it, and found a well-formed baby skink. He's got scales, colouring and is a few cm long. Dead as a doornail.
How should I be keeping the rest of the eggs? Should they be warmed (I have a free heat lamp) or cooled? What temperature should they be? And is shrivelling normal?
Sorry for the life story . And thanks for any help!
Edit: Some pics -
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