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tonight at around 2:30 i went in to check on Bindi who was digging around getting ready to lay her 3rd clutch, after i checked on her, i checked the incubator, and noticed one of bindi's eggs looked a bit weird, i lifted the top and took the container her eggs were in and noticed a small nose peeking through, i was ecstatic..thinking this was the first egg to hatch and I'd have a happy healthy albino hatchling within the next hour...NOT..after about an hour and a half i went in to check on that egg, i noticed it hadn't changed i thought this was a bit weird..but i thought nothing of it..after another 2 hours went back and and it still hadn't changed, i then took the egg out and realized this egg was not due to hatch for another week and a half - 2 weeks, i touched the tip if the nose that was out with a tweezer and got no reaction from the baby, i then proceeded to cut the egg open and take the baby out, i immediately put it into a deli cup with damp papertowl, i then touched it again and its tail sort of curled up..and it seemed as though he took a small breath and blinked his eyes..i was a bit hopeful after i saw this...but..unfortunatly i just went in to check on him and he has passed on, i really didn't expect him to live..but this is just really disappointing...Lily's eggs are due to hatch within the next few days, so hopefully her babies will be fully developed and healthy...this really sucks...
 
Sorry for your loss dan!:(
I didnt even know they could hatch prematurely.
 
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I'm sorry you lost your little hatchling, Dan. I have had many preemie hatchlings over the years, and many more born with their yolk-sac still attached. Fortunately, only one or two fatalities... but it's still disappointing and sad when you have been waiting for so long to see the offspring. Let's hope the sibling makes up for the loss!

I remember one little patternless that hatched about 2 weeks early. I kept her in the incubator for several days on a moist paper towel, and used a small-tipped dropper to give her diluted Hydro-Life and Pedialite. She only weighed 1.7 grams! After a couple of days, her yolk sack came off because she had walked through it, but the yolk stuck to her tiny little toes. I was afraid to handle her and try to get it off because she was sooooo small! Unfortunately, she lost a few toes because as she grew the yolk acted like unshed skin and cut off the circulation.

Long story short... she eventually grew into a lovely sub-adult, and someone absolutely fell in love with her and bought her! Here is a photo of her at 2 weeks of age in a regular 4.5" deli cup just to give an idea how small she was:
 

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thanks marcia

im hoping the ones that should be hatching saturday come out 100% fine and healthy

i was really worried that they were all going to hatch out with some serious deformaties, since the temps did fluctuate a couple times in the first few weeks of incubation, but seeing the premie and noticing that it had no deformaties put me at ease, its very dissapointing, but i like to think of anything bad that happens with the geckos is more of a learning experience for me..even though i really dont know what i've learned from this..yet

this baby was just about fully developed, it just needed to develop its full color and would have been 100% developed.
 
Dan, I'm sorry. It was beyond your control though. I'm sure you'll be hatching some gorgeous babies soon, so don't fret. By the way, I can relate to worrying about deformities. The first thing I always do with my hatchlings is count their toes.
 
Xelda said:
The first thing I always do with my hatchlings is count their toes.
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Me too! They also get a full eyelid check too. After the rash of eyelid-less leos I saw in the forums last year I always have to double check.
 
Xelda said:
Dan, I'm sorry. It was beyond your control though. I'm sure you'll be hatching some gorgeous babies soon, so don't fret. By the way, I can relate to worrying about deformities. The first thing I always do with my hatchlings is count their toes.
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thanks olivia, im sure the babies that should hatch out any day now will cheer me up :)
 
I have never heard of them not having eyelids. thats horrible to they have to constandly lick their eyeballs? Does anyone have any picturesof eyelidless leos. thats something Id like to see. I hope all your leo babys hatch out healthy. you cant save them all.
 
Last season I had a leo hatch (I believe it was on time and not premature) and it looked as if it was dead in the incubator. I pulled it out and it was alive but not looking so good. I put it in my hatchling racks to see if it would do any better in a temperature it could choose. The baby seemed to gasp for air as if it didn't have lungs or they were not functioning properly. It died within a few hours. Anyone else had something like this happen?

Chris
 
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