Star lays eggs

[Tortoise lady]

Hi ,
last night went in to check my Stars to find 10 eggs that she had just finished laying ,
I have put them in a incubator at 31c
is there anything more I should do ,any help would be appreciated

 

[Carol S]

How exciting.

 

[TortoiseWarrior]

Do you have a hygrometer in the incubator? What are you keeping the humidity at?
Congratulations on those eggs. Thats awesome

 

[TortoiseWarrior]

Show a picture of the incubator and your set up

 

[G-stars]

Keep the humidity between 60-80% as well and leave them alone for about 90 days. Did she lay the eggs on the top of the substrate like shown in the picture or did you dig them up?

 

[Tom]

Hi ,
last night went in to check my Stars to find 10 eggs that she had just finished laying ,
I have put them in a incubator at 31c
is there anything more I should do ,any help would be appreciated

Congrats! Read this:

How To Incubate Eggs And Start Hatchlings

I put my eggs in a plastic shoe box with a lid on it and put the shoe box in the incubator. You can drill a couple of very small holes around the top of the container, but not on the lid. I use vermiculite as an incubation media. I mix it in a 1 : 1 ratio with water by weight for Sulcatas and...

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[Tortoise lady]

Show a picture of the incubator and your set up

This is my incubator , I have put them in plastic box’s with a few holes and vermiculite , humidity is between 60-80%
she layed her eggs on top of substrate and had just finished when I found them

 

[TortoiseWarrior]

Congrats! Read this:

How To Incubate Eggs And Start Hatchlings

I put my eggs in a plastic shoe box with a lid on it and put the shoe box in the incubator. You can drill a couple of very small holes around the top of the container, but not on the lid. I use vermiculite as an incubation media. I mix it in a 1 : 1 ratio with water by weight for Sulcatas and...

tortoiseforum.org

I actually use this and it works everytime I come back to it. I just got done using it for

Simple hatchling setup

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[Tortoise lady]

Congrats! Read this:

How To Incubate Eggs And Start Hatchlings

I put my eggs in a plastic shoe box with a lid on it and put the shoe box in the incubator. You can drill a couple of very small holes around the top of the container, but not on the lid. I use vermiculite as an incubation media. I mix it in a 1 : 1 ratio with water by weight for Sulcatas and...

tortoiseforum.org

Congrats! Read this:

How To Incubate Eggs And Start Hatchlings

I put my eggs in a plastic shoe box with a lid on it and put the shoe box in the incubator. You can drill a couple of very small holes around the top of the container, but not on the lid. I use vermiculite as an incubation media. I mix it in a 1 : 1 ratio with water by weight for Sulcatas and...

tortoiseforum.org

Thanks Tom for your advice found it very interesting and took note on your the bit about after they have hatched removing the vermiculite so they don’t eat it

 

[G-stars]

This is my incubator , I have put them in plastic box’s with a few holes and vermiculite , humidity is between 60-80%
she layed her eggs on top of substrate and had just finished when I found them

Does she have a nesting area where she can dig a nest that’s about a foot deep? I have found that eggs laid on top of the substrate are never fertile. But I always incubate them just in case.

 

[Tortoise lady]

Does she have a nesting area where she can dig a nest that’s about a foot deep? I have found that eggs laid on top of the substrate are never fertile. But I always incubate them just in case.

Oh! Right so I should not get my hopes up , but why is that they are not fertile if layed on top of substrate , is it not already decided before she lays them which have been fertilised and which have not