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Would like to hear your experience/opinions from multi clutch hatches. Purely from incubation temps or does genetics play a role? What has been your experience?
beautiful.Hes like a designer tortmy Steven has split scutes so he has 16 scutes instead of 13. he seems healthy, happy and he's such a cutey.
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Wow!!!!~ We have been hatching out the aldabra species for many years and less than one percent we produce have any split, extra, divided or double scutes. We have tried many incubation methods with a few variations and found that a consistent steady safe temperature with full term incubation produce the heaviest and healthiest hatchlings. I have heard many opinions and theories as to what causes this, my overall thoughts is it is influenced by temperatures during the incubation process.
~ One of the most interesting opinions i have heard was that this was influenced during a certain early phase of development within a small window when a higher temperature is present!
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I had about 4 split scutes one year from different mothers. Then I realized that my toddler was messing with the incubator and the temps were up to 89F for about a week or so. Since then, I have had only one split scute with incubation temps at 83-84F.
ALDABRAMAN, those are some incredible looking Torts!
Are split scutes not good? I like them, i like them a lot actually...