You should be able to see something at about 4wks. Although I have never had the opportunity yet. Lol. Yes increase humidity to %90+
Home's hingeback eggs
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So I will put them in the incubator and add sphagnum moss.
Yes. You need to monitor the temps and humidity still.
I don't know how people I'm climates that rise above incubation temps deal with it. I guess some sort of cooler system.
When I tried 28C temps rises to 35, so I removed the heater. Apparently it still rises to about 29.5-29.9C, now the three eggs are in but the humidity is 89%. Is there something wrong with the third egg or is it because it was laid about a week later?
. Why does the temps rise by itself?
. Why does the temps rise by itself?
If you are getting 29c without heat it will rise when you add heat. I'd just leave them there as long as you don't have a cold spell you will be OK.
Good to know, but what about the third egg? Does infertile eggs also incubate and (expand?) like fertile eggs?
I don't know, just incubate them all and see what happens. Take notes of your observations so you learn.
I tried to candle the eggs, I don't see anything on the 1st and 2nd egg, someone said that the first two have chalked. The bottom is dark for the third egg.
Egg 1
Egg 2
Egg 3 (notice it is dark at the bottom)
Egg 1
Egg 2
Egg 3 (notice it is dark at the bottom)
Ive not had a fertile homes egg yet so I can't comment on that. All I can day is , keep incubating.
Okay, hoping for the best. Anyone knows how long it usually takes for them to hatch?
Around 120 days.
Cool. See what happens. Be good if you could get your own herd of homeana going. You have the space.
I forgot to mention. Have you looked into starting your own wormery. Free food for torts.
What's a wormery?
It's basically a box you put your organic waste in so worms can live and breed in it.
We used to have them for fishing. Best way was grass clippings and newspaper.
For your torts I wouldn't use newspaper though. In my compost bin at the moment there is a lot of grass clippings and apples from the Apple tree. There's hundreds of red worms and slugs in it. It needs to be wet. Google wormery. You can buy them but best making your own. A friend of mine just had 4 wooden pallets nailed together to make a box. Filled it with grass, vegetables peelings and newspaper. He got kilos of worms out of it for fishing.
You could make a box lets say 50cm cubed with a lid of old wood. Leave gaps between the wood latts for air,rain fall circulation.
When it is fully established you won't run out of worms. Just keep feeding with organic matter. (Veg peelings).
Should be ok for me, how deep should it be?
Anything from 50 to 100cm. You need to make sure you can reach in to the bottom of it to collect worms, but also you should mix it up from time to time so your fresh organic materials get mixed in.
