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SHvar
06-15-05, 07:35 PM
This is great, I cant believe that little girl laid these 5 big eggs..
Red ackies, woohoo!!!http://shenderson1.photosite.com/~photos/tn/3092_1024.ts1118873109000.jpg
oliver
06-19-05, 06:50 PM
sweet
Jeff_Favelle
06-20-05, 01:25 AM
AWESOME!!!!!
Steeve B
06-20-05, 05:00 AM
Too much ventilation will make unstable incubation.
Be careful you deserve to hatch these, pleas don’t take my word on this, ask those who hatched this specie before.
crocdoc
06-20-05, 07:55 PM
I'd agree with Steeve, those holes in your egg box will kill those eggs rather than help them. Get a sealed box with 1:1 perlite/water by weight and open twice weekly for air exchange. Add a small amount of water once a week if the eggs start denting, wipe off excess condensation from the walls if they do the opposite and blow up like golf balls. That's about it.
SHvar
06-20-05, 08:38 PM
Beardies. Im gonna cover a few more of them yet. These are tougher eggs and thicker, than ackies. About 2 plus times the size also.
crocdoc
06-21-05, 01:06 AM
I'd cover all of them, but that's just me. Ackies don't have as long an incubation period as lacies, but if I had holes like that on my lacie egg containers they'd be dried husks long before they hatched. Even if there were only one or two still open, the rest covered over.
SHvar
06-21-05, 10:17 AM
These are tougher eggs than the beardie eggs, thicker, a larger. When I incubated beardies I experimented with the amount of ventilation in the egg boxes. These egg boxes were used with other reptiles for over 10 years in 2 other collections, but for the incubator I adjust the ventilation depending on need. Recently these same boxes hatched beardies, cornsnakes, turtles, and other colubrids. The difference in incubation times from what I gather on these to beardies is another month.
Im hoping this works.
V.hb
06-21-05, 03:18 PM
Take Dk's advice. He gave me advice not long ago and my clutch is doing great. Due to hatch in about 2 weeks. I use the same method as described by him above. You'll find ventilation and high humidity kills the eggs very quickly or takes them to full term with no hatch.

Good luck and congrats!