Lizadore
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Okay so my parents are redoing our back yard and last weekend while moving a pile of dirt they ran into 5 Turtle eggs. One of the eggs was accidentally cracked open in all the dirt moving and out cam a teeny tiny turtle. Before my mom could stop him, my dad put the little guy down in the marshy like creek behind our yard. Next they decided to incubate the eggs mostly because they couldn't put them back in the pile they just moved. After a little help from me we have a make shift incubation thing going on. Its still pretty hot out so they are in a bin that has holes in the lid with lots of moist dirt sitting outside (we keep the house at 70 which I know is to cold to bring them in side when we don't have a heat source for them). After a few days our dog was really intent on the box of eggs and it turned out that one of them was hatching, something I didn't think would happen because the eggs were moved and turned and there was no way of telling the top from bottom.
So now we have three eggs and a Hatchling. Let me start with the eggs. Two days ago one of the eggs started to look like it had cracks in the shell and then a small crack appeared and has some clear goo out side of it. and today they same thing happened to another egg. When watching the two eggs with tiny cracks they seem to be moving of vibrating more so. I can not tell if this means they are going to hatch on their own, if I should help them, or what is happening. I am just really worried that they wont be able to hatch if turned wrong.
On to the hatchling. We did what ever web site said to do and removed him from the dirt and put him in a container with moist paper towels until he finished sucking up his yoke. now we have him in a ten gallon tank with eco-dirt and little plants with the moss you can get for reptiles over top of the dirt and a fairly large compared to the turtle, yet still easy for him to get out of water dish-thing. We put him in he went straight to the water swam through got out and disappeared into the dirt. We were expecting him to do that, but now we haven't seen him, even slightly and I am worried that he is not eating or drinking. I know it says everywhere that they sometimes don't eat when absorbing the yoke but how long until they do eat? Should we try to give him veggie now along with other things? Any help in this aspect would be great!
We are planing to release him and the others if they hatch after they sewer company has finished their work behind our yard. Our creek comes up from a bay of water, it is where their mom came from and will be perfect for them once all the work is done and we do not have to worry about them being hurt cause they don't move far when the guys come through and cut down the path to the sewer hatch.
The eggs before I took over with making sure they were in good moist dirt (this doesn't show the lid which has holes). Also this was before the hatchling. Showing the belly before moving to the big tank.
Him compared to the mini meal-worms which we got for food along with pinhead crickets and pellets.
The tank set up. (we have changed water dishes since the picture because that one leaked.) The little guy in the tank and the last picture before he went poof.
So now we have three eggs and a Hatchling. Let me start with the eggs. Two days ago one of the eggs started to look like it had cracks in the shell and then a small crack appeared and has some clear goo out side of it. and today they same thing happened to another egg. When watching the two eggs with tiny cracks they seem to be moving of vibrating more so. I can not tell if this means they are going to hatch on their own, if I should help them, or what is happening. I am just really worried that they wont be able to hatch if turned wrong.
On to the hatchling. We did what ever web site said to do and removed him from the dirt and put him in a container with moist paper towels until he finished sucking up his yoke. now we have him in a ten gallon tank with eco-dirt and little plants with the moss you can get for reptiles over top of the dirt and a fairly large compared to the turtle, yet still easy for him to get out of water dish-thing. We put him in he went straight to the water swam through got out and disappeared into the dirt. We were expecting him to do that, but now we haven't seen him, even slightly and I am worried that he is not eating or drinking. I know it says everywhere that they sometimes don't eat when absorbing the yoke but how long until they do eat? Should we try to give him veggie now along with other things? Any help in this aspect would be great!
We are planing to release him and the others if they hatch after they sewer company has finished their work behind our yard. Our creek comes up from a bay of water, it is where their mom came from and will be perfect for them once all the work is done and we do not have to worry about them being hurt cause they don't move far when the guys come through and cut down the path to the sewer hatch.
The eggs before I took over with making sure they were in good moist dirt (this doesn't show the lid which has holes). Also this was before the hatchling. Showing the belly before moving to the big tank.
Him compared to the mini meal-worms which we got for food along with pinhead crickets and pellets.
The tank set up. (we have changed water dishes since the picture because that one leaked.) The little guy in the tank and the last picture before he went poof.