My tortoise has only ever laid eggs on the surface, most of which have produced perfect little torts! So definitely keep them and see what happens. Good luck!
hey YT!
Your torts are adorable!
my parents have indian stars in malaysia too, the climate is pretty much perfect for them to be outdoors all year round, something you might want to consider when they're bigger and making a mess of the house! :)
welcome to the forum, looking forward to...
Have you tried candling them? At this age there should be a little tortoise formed inside if they were fertile. Definitely get rid of the rotten ones, or wait for them to crack before you get rid of them, just to be sure.
Goodluck!
hi! sorry, i just read this. only one out of the four hatched, i posted about it here; http://www.tortoiseforum.org/Thread-Egg-pipped
(s)he's now 3 months old and a little brat at that :)
Thanks everyone, he (or she) is quite the active little fella. I assume his shell will straighten over time as his shell hardens? I'm so scared i'll squish him.
Ok, one more! Promise I'll leave him to soak up the rest of his yolk sac in the dark after this haha.
He's finally here!
I put him in some water to try to wash off any sand he had stuck to his yolk sac and then put him on damp tissue and stuck him back into incubator for him to absorb the rest of his yolk sac. Is this correct? Is there anything else I should be doing?
Here he is! :)
Thanks again for everyone's congratulatory words as well as advice. The little fella is taking his sweeeeet sweeeeeet time, as if 159 days to pip wasn't a long enough wait. There's a hole in the egg where I can see the occasional foot, sometimes a nose as he spins in the egg. Can wait til he's...
Hey all,
After a 159 day wait, my sole surviving Indian Star Egg (surface laid and first time mum) has finally pipped!
I did some research but I'm ridiculously eggcited that everything I read has gone out the window. Do I move the pipping egg to a tub with moist paper towels, or shall I...