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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:41 pm    Post subject: sinking beardie eggs Reply with quote

my beardies eggs in the incubator are sinking are they supposed too the temp is 85
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are they to dry? what is their colour are they still nice and white? How long have they been incubating?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:03 pm    Post subject: reply Reply with quote

kroakykaren wrote:
Are they to dry? what is their color are they still nice and white? How long have they been incubating?


they have been in incubator for 3 weeks now its not dry there is condensation on window of incubator i cant tell the color cos when they was laid she had them in play pit sand which was dark in color and stained the eggs
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How have you got the eggs setup? ie are they in a tub with a lid and then inside the incubator? What incubation medium are you using and how did you calculate the water to add to it? What sort of incubator are you using? I would suggest turning the temp down to 84, and open the tub up to allow air exchange and check to see how moist the medium around the eggs is, a short time out of the incubator won't hurt them at all. I recently lost 17 eggs out of a 19 egg clutch because the female laid them in the wrong place and they dehydrated too much, I tried to save them but I think it was too late, I have 2 that are doing really well now though. the usual reasons for them denting this early on are, infertile eggs, drying out, and the incubator temp fluctuating without you realising, I've had that problem myself.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:26 am    Post subject: incubator Reply with quote

Dracowoman2 wrote:
How have you got the eggs setup? ie are they in a tub with a lid and then inside the incubator? What incubation medium are you using and how did you calculate the water to add to it? What sort of incubator are you using? I would suggest turning the temp down to 84, and open the tub up to allow air exchange and check to see how moist the medium around the eggs is, a short time out of the incubator won't hurt them at all. I recently lost 17 eggs out of a 19 egg clutch because the female laid them in the wrong place and they dehydrated too much, I tried to save them but I think it was too late, I have 2 that are doing really well now though. the usual reasons for them denting this early on are, infertile eggs, drying out, and the incubator temp fluctuating without you realising, I've had that problem myself.


Hi i have them in a homemade poly fish box the eggs are in a plastic tub with no lid with vermiculite just damp that when squeezed no water drips out also i have a small tub with water in at the side of plastic tub all the eggs are not touching each other they dont seem to have gone yellow yet but 1 or 2 of them had and shrunk to nearly flat.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Has this female laid eggs before? Sometimes the first batch can be infertile, but the following clutches are fine. Its likely that the two that have shrunk are not going to make it, if the turn yellow get them out of there so not to affect the others. Il PM you my setup thats worked for me for beardie eggs. I used 81F because allow the temp in the setup was 83, the temp in the actual box of eggs was slightly higher so at 81 in the setup the temp inthe box should be good.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:09 am    Post subject: eggs Reply with quote

tigerbaby2k wrote:
Has this female laid eggs before? Sometimes the first batch can be infertile, but the following clutches are fine. Its likely that the two that have shrunk are not going to make it, if the turn yellow get them out of there so not to affect the others. Il PM you my setup thats worked for me for beardie eggs. I used 81F because allow the temp in the setup was 83, the temp in the actual box of eggs was slightly higher so at 81 in the setup the temp inthe box should be good.


yes this is her first clutch so your probably right
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

I would put a lid on your egg boxes this will help to keep the humidity up.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:49 pm    Post subject: pic Reply with quote

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http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll295/roeder1969/100_0003.jpg

here is link to pic
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