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Although I suspected my 14' female was gravid, I was starting to doubt. It was her first breeding.

Last week, I came home from work, to find her laying. To save on space, I'd still been keeping my albino male (the father) in her cage. Once I saw she was laying, I immediately pulled him.

She laid 21 eggs and all but 2 were slugs.

I was not prepared for a clutch, or I would've bought an incubator.

I'm letting her incubate the last 2 eggs, but they're not looking good. They're still white but a little indented and dried out, it looks to me.

I'm keeping temps in the 90s and humidity between 83% and 85%.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 
Oh well...my previous post doesn't matter anyway.

I came home, from work tonight, to find both of her remaining eggs deflated and starting to rot.

Hopefully, I'll have better luck next year.

Do any of you guys think there's enough time, now, to reintroduce my male albino and see if they'll lock up again?
 
Do any of you guys think there's enough time, now, to reintroduce my male albino and see if they'll lock up again?
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Nah, they're done for this season, although, if they're both in good health it wouldn't hurt to try, but I wouldn't expect anything.

Sorry to hear about the duds. I know that feeling. There are many reasons for it but it can be hard to pinpoint them. "First breeding," on it's own, isn't a factor.

Hang in there!
HH
 
FWIW, (for future reference,) I wouldn't even set my incubator temps in the 90s...let alone cage temps for an incubating mother. Female burms will raise their body temp, and warm the eggs, by "shivering" (looks more like twitching, though). They cannot, on the other hand, do anything to cool the eggs when the temps are too warm.

(Generally, though, I don't recommend breeding if one isn't prepared to deal with eggs/babies :ack2: )
 
I should have specified, when I said temps were in the 90s. The hot side of her cage is 90 - 92...the cool side is low to mid 80s. She just happened to lay her eggs on the hot end of the cage. The female, when curled around the eggs, was twitching, to raise temps. Then, on other occasions, she'd only be partly curled around the eggs, to let them release temps.

And, this wasn't a planned breeding. The male and female had been housed together for aprox. 1.5 years and nothing ever happened before. It was more of a lazy thing, on my part. I had plenty of opprotunities to build the male a cage of his own, but figured "eh, they're ok together" so I just never did it.

Now that the male has been pulled and he has his own cage now, they won't be housed together again, until breeding time.

I'm not gonna bother with putting them together again. I'll just wait till next season, as I'm prepared now. I was just hoping to salvage those two eggs, after the others were slugs.

Thanks for the replies.
 
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