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Egg Help

mathaldo

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I've been incubating this egg and checked on yesterday night. I can see the body and colours, its been incubating since March 7th at around 81 degrees and 81% humidity. It's dimpled and you can see the baby. Is this normal or what should I do now? I should mention the last time I checked it was last night and it didn't look like this.The only thing I can think of is that the egg was under-calcified, but I supplement the gecko's diets with calcium and vit D3. I don't know if this changes anything, but she did lay them in her water dish, but luckily there wasnt too much in here, so I removed them and put them in the incubator. There were 2, and one died about 1 months ago (the egg). I was thinking about slitting thios one open but I'd like to hear some mroe opinions.
Should I slit the egg, or leave it for a couple more days.

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Mat
 
Its a very hard call to make on to assist the baby or not, I don't but that is something that is very hard to decide.

I had 2 hatch yesterday that were incubated at 80 and were laid on 03/20 so yours is a little younger than the ones I just had hatch. I also have a few from 3/17-03/21 that are not showing signs of hatching yet but should soon but none have started to collpase.

My guess is that your egg is just collapsing and should hatch very soon.

Good luck with it and let us know how she does!
 
Wow you can really see the baby, I have never had an egg look like that. I would probably leave it alone too, but see if it is moving first. You should be able to tell pretty easily. I personally wouldn't mess with it unless it started to mold or smell. Maybe someone else has had an egg go translucent like that before.
 
Very interesting. Since you can through the egg shell it’s thin which is a lack of calcium. I’d put a dish of calcium in the tank for the female. Personally I wouldn’t touch the egg. The baby is developing and when it’s ready to hatch it should do it easily. Good luck with it and let us know how everything turns out.
 
I keep a calcium dish in there when she was egg laying, but took it out recently. I'll put one back in now though.

On another forum someone mentioned the egg may be too rubbery for the gecko to get out, how should I address this?
 
warning stay away from the vit d3 in breeders there are a few threads on this in this forum you can search for more info.
 
mathaldo said:
On another forum someone mentioned the egg may be too rubbery for the gecko to get out, how should I address this?
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I doubt it will be rubbery. It should be like any other egg but half or less the thickness. Just keep a close eye on it and make sure everything goes smoothly.
 
I checked on the eggs this morning. It smelled REALLY bad and as you can see from the pictures it's browning, and collapsed a bit more.
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great pic

The shell could very well be thin due to being laid in the water bowl. The eggs can absorb a lot of water and become turgid, and when they are laid like that are usually an indicator that the moisture in lay-box medium was not optimum for the female, or she was a first-timer that was a little confused. Another thing is, that as the baby grows the egg stretches and can become thin, and the shell can get even thinner when it's about to hatch. At any rate, it's a really cool pic... and I would wait and let the little one try to come out on it's own.
 
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