Re: [gecko]Leopard Gecko eggs fertile?

[Julie Bergman]

Hi Andrew, andrew waterson wrote: How do you tell if a leopard gecko egg is fertile? Good eggs look good, then you just have to wait to see if they hatch.    I have around 7 eggs and three are very turgid with a chaulk like layer, I am not sure what the chalk stuff is. the others are somewhat turgid but are not hard.  Two of the not so turgid eggs have not caved in and look ok except for a reddish appearance on one of them. Were they just laid? If you get the incubation medium too moist then leo eggs tend to turn red.   Also is it bad to touch the eggs?   Thanks, Andy I would avoid it. It is hard to be patient! Set them up in moist vermiculite with about 1/2 their tops showing. Then you keep checking them without touching, every other day or so. If they are caving in try spraying them directly. This means either the egg is bad or your medium is too dry. If they mold then either they were bad or your medium is too moist. If they are soft and don't look like a normal egg then it is likely they are no good. When you first start doing this it is trial and error until you perfect the conditions needed for your particular set-up.  Good luck! Julie B.         Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!