It is my practice to never toss tortoise eggs from the incubator until they either explode or collapse. So, seeing too many gnats flying around my house this a.m., I opened the incubator to see if I had some rotten eggs that are breeding gnats. Here's what it looked like:
If you look real close, you can see that the top row of eggs is moldy and collapsing. You can't see the gnats, but the incubator is FULL of them!! But wait...look again at the second row. There were 4 Eastern box turtle eggs, three of which never looked fertile. Take a close look at the second one from the left. Yep...a little guy trying to get out after only 47 days!
The two really white eggs on the bottom are from my biggest Manouria emys phayrei. She never built a nest, but I found these eggs behind her one morning. One of them has a pretty big dent, that's why I put some of the moist vermiculite on it. Then next to them is a new 3-toe egg that I put in there a couple days ago. It looks pretty good too. However the rest of the eggs in there look and smell pretty bad!!
Yvonne
If you look real close, you can see that the top row of eggs is moldy and collapsing. You can't see the gnats, but the incubator is FULL of them!! But wait...look again at the second row. There were 4 Eastern box turtle eggs, three of which never looked fertile. Take a close look at the second one from the left. Yep...a little guy trying to get out after only 47 days!
The two really white eggs on the bottom are from my biggest Manouria emys phayrei. She never built a nest, but I found these eggs behind her one morning. One of them has a pretty big dent, that's why I put some of the moist vermiculite on it. Then next to them is a new 3-toe egg that I put in there a couple days ago. It looks pretty good too. However the rest of the eggs in there look and smell pretty bad!!
Yvonne
