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My Egyptians last year laid a weird long egg that never hatched after 130 days at 31 degrees celsius. We waited an entire year for another egg and we get the same weird long egg shape which we suspect is infertile again. Don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. It’s cooking, well wait and see.

Thank you for your reply. The incubator has a coil that’s directly beneath the plastic lid. It heats the top air and maybe the bottom by radiant heat. If candling is disruptive I will not do it anymore. The fan hopefully won’t affect the egg. The temperature is now even. I saw the difference...

Hey guys, quick update... I think I've messed up big time I was checking on the egg today, and I found out that the egg hasn't been incubating at 31 degrees, but at 25 degrees. :( The reptile incubator had the temperature probe at the top of the incubator, and there were no fans in there to make...

This is what things look like so far. Day 50. I read development is very slow early on, so I'm hoping to see more growth in the coming weeks.

The egg I posted about is in an incubator at 31 celsius and 60-70% humidity. It measures 45mm long and 23mm wide, which is large from what I've been reading. I've tried to candle it but I can't see very clearly inside the egg. It certainly doesn't look as clear and featureless as it did on day 1...

So i found this in their enclosure today... is it a bad egg?

Ahh I understand :) We try to keep their supply of leafy greens as constant as possible of course. Suppose all I can do now is wait and have an incubator on standby... What are the best threads on this forum that I can re-read about egg laying and incubation?

Thanks for your replies :) What affects this period's length? The temperature? The diet? Maybe genetics? Or the fact that the male has possibly never mated and might fail to fertilise the female? This is my first time attempting to breed kleinmanni, I don't know if rules for other tortoises...

Hey everyone :) I'd had an adult female egyptian tortoise for five years, and I found her a husband last year. I've been spotting them mate several times these last few days and I'm prearing myself for eggs. My question is: how long before I expect to find eggs? Thanks Jerry

Thank you :) I'll take a look

Thank you all for your warm welcomes and replies. Thanks @HermanniChris for your reply, I guess they're T. Kleinmanni then :) what resources for info do you suggest regarding breeding? I've seen a few inconsistencies across the web and I want to do things properly :p

Thank you :) from the Island of Malta

Indeed it did, but it's from 2007, and there were mentions of werneri as a separate species more recently than that So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In all honesty I'm happy with them being either species... as long as breeding is possible

Hello everyone! It's my first post ever in this group :) I hope I could find some help :) So my family came by these two tortoises. According to as much research as I could muster, they're T. kleinmannis, but T. werneri seem to be very similar as well, so I'm not sure which one they are. The...