critique my eggs, please (Now incl. pipping and popping)

[Anyfoot]

Ed. Does number 4 look like it has lighter color borders between scutes.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Ed. Does number 4 look like it has lighter color borders between scutes.

No. They are all pretty much the same.
It's curious why yours have lighter colored "grout" between the tiles than mine. Since so far the climate has been artificial and can't have been influenced by my tropical location yet. So far yours and mine have had very similar parameters.

 

[Anyfoot]

No. They are all pretty much the same.
It's curious why yours have lighter colored "grout" between the tiles than mine. Since so far the climate has been artificial and can't have been influenced by my tropical location yet. So far yours and mine have had very similar parameters.

I know, I was wondering if it's because mine exited the eggs earlier(too early). But you said your number 4 exited early and has no grout. (grout, OMG, Lol)

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I know, I was wondering if it's because mine exited the eggs earlier(too early). But you said your number 4 exited early and has no grout. (grout, OMG, Lol)

It looks like grout.
These all took about 5 months to hatch
Incubated at 83-84 degrees with high humidity (above 80%)

 

[Anyfoot]

It looks like grout.
These all took about 5 months to hatch
Incubated at 83-84 degrees with high humidity (above 80%)

I've had 106 to 181 days from 2 different females, 80/90% humidity at 82 to 85f and all have the grout look.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I've had 106 to 181 days from 2 different females, 80/90% humidity at 82 to 85f and all have the grout look.

It must be just a genetic thing.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

We'll have to see what the next batch produces. It should be a few weeks away.

 

[Anyfoot]

Where in your incubator do you check humidity. If I put probe right next to an egg on the vermiculite it always reads 90%+.
Think your right about genetics though, maybe it's one of my males.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Where in your incubator do you check humidity. If I put probe right next to an egg on the vermiculite it always reads 90%+.
Think your right about genetics though, maybe it's one of my males.

These were all raised in my closed chamber-turned-incubator. It has a digital humidity and temp gauge velcroed on to the back glass. Probably not dead reliable. But consistent.

 

[Redstrike]

Good looking little runts!

 

[LRTortoises]

I have been wodering why we do vermiculite. Here is a Facebook video from a Redfoot form in Central America. He has amazing Hatch rates and uses a blue plastic or silicone substrate the whole time.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1828660857386910

Not sure if you can see that video.

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[ZEROPILOT]

Good question.
I think it's just because of the way it holds humidity. It gets messy and I've got a 50/50 mix of vermiculite and moss now in my new incubator tubs.

 

[Ekafairy]

I just "candled" all of the eggs again and found that some are truly weird. Some are clear with dark masses. A few no light will pass through at all. Some are still transparent pink or yellow including two that I found to be cracked and leaking.
I removed the two.
Clearly rotten. Both from November.
Discouraged, I did a mini dig outside and quickly uncovered these two HUGE eggs. These are every bit as large as chicken eggs but rounder.

So my red foot played her first clutch of 4 eggs on November 8. On March 13 the first one hatched. Now I've candled the remaining 3,one is so dark I can't see through, one is pinkish, and the other is pinkish but cracked 7 days ago. Thought maybe it was going to hatch. I never candled the eggs before that one cracked. I guess it's toast. It doesn't smell so I was hoping ....

 

[ZEROPILOT]

The ones that stayed clear(transparent) and pink or clear and yellow at that age don't seem to be fertile.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

All of mine that hatched showed very dark or partially dark at that age.

 

[Ekafairy]

All of mine that hatched showed very dark or partially dark at that age.

Thanks. That's what I was afraid of. It is both her and her mate's first clutch each, so I shouldn't be too disappointed.

 

[Ekafairy]

So the pink ones were infertile...man did they stink once open. Today I was rewarded. The remaining egg pipped

 

[Ekafairy]

So the pink ones were infertile...man did they stink once open. Today I was rewarded. The remaining egg pipped

 

[ZEROPILOT]

It's a lot of fun, isn't it?
Mine are all eating ALOT.
And seem to be sturdy enough to go to new homes.
Are you keeping yours?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Yesterday I threw away two more eggs that had cracked, leaked what looked like expanding foam and stunk like a land fill.