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The darker one appears reddish pink by just moving the phone light over it,but no clear blood vessels and chalking was observed in it only whereas the other one shows non of such things and appears some what clear

which of these star eggs are fertile.?? @Neal @Markw84 @chin_lee @zovick

I am having 2 eggs in the incubator showing the exact characteristics as shown in pic but in my case the one which is turned brown started chalking and appears reddish pink when candles and the other appears as the eggs in lower left it didnt showed chalking the eggs I have are of indian...

Thank you so much I felt like something is going wrong

Guys I see a white spot on one egg at the tip which is expanding now it's a kind of circular patch seen on it without candling the portion where the spot is appears whiter then rest of the egg with candling it appears a bright white spot clearly seen but no veins have been seen yet is this...

Yeah even I think so because after laying the eggs she reduced a lot of weight and weighed a bit lighter but recently she has again started to feel a bit heavier

She is eating properly but doesn't defecate properly as I gave her the injection she started pushing but all what she did was passing stools

Yeah she is eating and defecating normally okay then that would the hard feces bcoz I felt the same thing on the male also There is no facility of radiographing her So think you are right

@zovick I gave her 2 injections of the same dose but she didn't passed out any eggs , And they are palpable

@kingsley @Neal @Markw84 @chin_lee @JoesMum Guys I've made incubator but what should be temperature n humidity for star tortoise eggs to hatch and how long is the incubation period..?? how to know they are fertile please help guys

Thank you so much @JoesMum @kingsley @Neal @Markw84 @chin_lee guys all your suggestions helped me a lot and finally we had our first ever clutch of 4 egg 1 came out broken or broke after coming out 1 she broke while setting it up in soil 2 we removed from the nest and I guess there are two more...

Yes yes it's an UVB lamp and she is basking really well thanks @kingsley for advice

Thanks @kingsley I am going to surely try this out but I would like to mention this ad @Neal said to soak her for long I did the same yesterday and immediately after that she refused to eat and become very active n restless started sniffing the areas the whole day but since today she is just...

Yes the male is still trying to mate her but I have separated them it was a min or so they were together the soil is 6 inches in depth and the soil moist throughout its depth and holds the shape when squeezed but it's not too wet and mulky

She basks and just lies around there for the whole day n sniffing around the place in the picture what do you guys say is it normal..?? There is a behavioural change in her as you guys said just like that should I wait for some more days or go for oxytocin as I am worried about whether she is...

In this picture you Could see the slope there where she's being around from last 5 days

she was scratching the area just behind her where the soil is moist than the other spots in the box as the warmth of the lamp is comparitivily less there its a cardboard box of 2ft X 4ft with some grass planted on one side but she is most comfortable with this sight and keeps scratching around...