Babies!

[Neal]

My Sri Lanka babies are back to 100%. I actually think they are better than ever. They are for sure a lot more active throughout the day. I have been keeping them in the incubator every night and it seems to have helped them out a lot. Here they are:

My hatchling leopard still walking the enclosure by her lonesome. I checked the eggs tonight and it looks like one will be ready to go tomorrow.

 

[JohnathanO]

Beautiful tortoises

Good to hear that the Sri Lanka babies are doing good. Your Leopard looks great, how many more eggs do you have left?

 

[Neal]

30 something, I had a couple explode and she's still laying so I haven't bothered to count. The oldest clutch is almost 150 days now.

 

[ticothetort2]

Glad to hear that the incubator did the trick!! Can't wait to see some more little leo's keeping her company!

 

[Tom]

Cool. Glad the stars are ok. Wow, 150 days. Don't give up. I just re-read the Fife's Leopard book and it says that sometimes even babcocks have a diapause that needs to be broken.

 

[Neal]

With all those stories we heard at the conference I won't be throwing away any eggs. Richard was telling me he has a lot of babcocki's that incubate for 6 months or more.

 

[coreyc]

That's great ot hear your Star's are doing good hopefully he will have some company soon he or she looks great

 

[gummybearpoop]

150 days ain't nothing.....there was a radiata egg that took over 500 days to hatch!

Neal, I am glad the stars are good and I am glad you didn't sell them!

 

[John]

they're lookin great neal keep me posted.

 

[CGKeith]

Glad to hear the Stars are doing better.

Congrats on the Leopards, keep posting pics. Everybody likes to see baby pics.

Wish I had room for couple of them.

 

[ChiKat]

Aww nothing better than hatchling pics Thanks for sharing!

 

[onarock]

I could imagine the sunken feeling when you found them in that condition. Glad to hear that they will be just fine. Hows it going with the one that is supposed to hatch any day now?

 

[laura808]

aw! they are all so beautiful and you are lucky to have such awesome (and now healthy) torts! Please post some pics of the soon to be baby when she/he hatches!

 

[Neal]

Thanks guys. The new one just pipped tonight, she should be through tomorrow sometime. She was a clutch mate of the one that has already hatched and incubated at the higher temps closer to the top of the incubator so should be a girl as well. Hopefully I will have pictures tomorrow.

 

[onarock]

Thanks guys. The new one just pipped tonight, she should be through tomorrow sometime. She was a clutch mate of the one that has already hatched and incubated at the higher temps closer to the top of the incubator so should be a girl as well. Hopefully I will have pictures tomorrow.

Lets see some pics of that incubator

 

[Neal]

MR-148. Not the most popular, but I really like it. The containers towards the top are at 89.7, the ones on the bottom are 85.6 so the ones in the middle are in between those two temps. The top right corner has my two stars sleeping, and there's a container towards the bottom that I keep the leopard baby in. I keep the container on top of the incubator outside during the night cause I don't have enough room. The 3 eggs in there are all fertile so they don't seem to mind the temperature fluctuations. 33 eggs including the ones on the top, and I have a nest that I left outside.

I'm out of school and not working yet so I have all sorts of time. Any other requests, lol.

 

[Az tortoise compound]

You gotta love a pic of a full incubator Congrats!

 

[gummybearpoop]

Nice incubator Neal

 

[Neal]

Nice incubator Neal

Maybe someday I'll have some Astrochelys Radiata in there!

 

[gummybearpoop]

Nice incubator Neal

Maybe someday I'll have some Astrochelys Radiata in there!

..and Geochelone Platynota & Elegans! I wish I didn't sell my platynota!