Help!! Cant find the eggs!

[PatrickT]

My terrarium is pretty big and problem is one of my females laid eggs. I cant dig them out ir would ruin evrything...So they will most likely hatch inside it.

Are they safe from the adults? I know many gecko species dont eat their young, but some do. so please give me some info.

[Minkness]

They might get eaten, but they might not. Keep an eye out. Babies are ysually really good at hiding because they are so small.

[chairman]

You have crested geckos, yes?

They will absolutely eat their young.

You can sift through the dirt to locate the eggs. Try not to rotate them and put them in your "incubator" laying just as they were in the dirt.

I've stopped breeding my geckos for the time being but when I did, I allowed my daughter to dig up the eggs and put them in our incubator when she was 5. She was very careful but had the occasional egg shift, roll, even had one drop. Every egg hatched out a healthy baby.

[PatrickT]

well we will see, maybe they will make it.

[Minkness]

I have had friends who have large set ups eith males and females and they just let them breed snd lay and they never look for the eggs. They just pull the babies as soon as they see them. Again though, they may get eaten if you don't have enough hiding places for small babies.

While gentleness is always a must, rotation does not affect the embryos like in snakes. Just throwing that out there.

Also, it is best to incubate at rokm temps. This will produce larger, healthier babies that will develop some large crests when they grow up. Incubating an egg too warm will speed up the time it takes them to hatch, butthey will be much smaller and can lack crests.

Good luck. And honestly, if you are breeding, you should have a seperate area for the females. I keep mine in a tank all together and instead of a planted ground, I keep dishes with about 2 inches of dirt. I can remove them and check them easily without dustriying the rest of the cage.

Also, males and females should be kept separately to prevent agression, stress, and over breeding.

[PatrickT]

I have a group of one male and 3 females. The tank is heavily planted and really huge. Its 1m high and 0,8 m wide and long. I will see what happenes when they hatch and hope i find them.

[Minkness]

I'm familiar with your set up. It's pretty awesome. I would still suggest seperating the male. Hood luck ever finding a baby in that huge of a tank. It may be hald grown (or eaten) before you ever know it exists lol.