2 Redfoot Tortstork Instahatch Eggs!

[Beasty_Artemis]

Holy cow!!!! I just recieved my 2 Instahatch Eggs (redfoot tortoise!) In the mail! Woot!

 

[wellington]

Keep us posted

 

[VegasJeff]

Is that an incubator? How long it take?

 

[Chubbs the tegu]

I was so close to ordering from them. Such a cool idea. Definitely keep us updated! Good luck

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

That's the " Little Giant " incubator

 

[MichaelL]

Nice. By the way, I have that same incubator. It keeps a stable temperature, but the temp it says on the digital thing is inaccurate. You need to have a thermometer inside, on the bottom to know the true temp.

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

Neighborhood even had a power outage the night before! Of course it would be the only one for the whole year....sigh. I will be remembering to get myself a generator in the future. But no worries, because everything was fixed up early.

 

[Billna the 2]

Keep me updated !

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

Nice. By the way, I have that same incubator. It keeps a stable temperature, but the temp it says on the digital thing is inaccurate. You need to have a thermometer inside, on the bottom to know the true temp.

Oh damn! I will go set one inside right now!

 

[Toddrickfl1]

Congrats, your in for a cool experience. Took mine 5 days to Pip.

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

Congrats, your in for a cool experience. Took mine 5 days to Pip.

Good to know!!!!

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

Any advice or suggestions?

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

Holy smokes!!!! My bf walked up to ask when they are going to hatch. I rolled my eyes, looked over, and one is pipping!!!!

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

The egg in the back has a small hole now! It was more open....well have to wait and see!!!!!

 

[Toddrickfl1]

The egg in the back has a small hole now! It was more open....well have to wait and see!!!!!View attachment 292122

It took mine about 24 hours to completely hatch once it pipped.

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

Wow one of mine cannot wait to hatch out. This morning, half of her egg's shell is cracking off. Every time I peer in again ( which is like every 30 minutes at most!) there are more pieces of shell shattering and starting to break away.

 

[Toddrickfl1]

Wow one of mine cannot wait to hatch out. This morning, half of her egg's shell is cracking off. Every time I peer in again ( which is like every 30 minutes at most!) there are more pieces of shell shattering and starting to break away.
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So Eggciting!

 

[Chubbs the tegu]

Wow one of mine cannot wait to hatch out. This morning, half of her egg's shell is cracking off. Every time I peer in again ( which is like every 30 minutes at most!) there are more pieces of shell shattering and starting to break away.
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Cant wait to see the lil dudes

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

So my second redfoot egg pipped while I was watching just now this morning! So cool! The other baby is super vigorous this morning. Sticking her face and shoulder out every few minutes.
I'm having really good results with the "The Little Giant" incubator in my reptile room. Obviously with the temps always pretty stable in there, I'm not struggling to maintain even temps inside the incubator to much. But I cannot keep my eyes off of the thing. And then I keep forgetting my dumb phone to take pics. Eye roll....
Also I have my 3 different styles of thermometer/ hygrometer to double check everything right and left. Temp gun helps alot.

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

Question :
Can fast movement when I'm peering in through the windows startle the babies during hatching?
When I spot movement, I just freeze trying not to distract her from her mission!