Deja vu.

[Anyfoot]

It's happening again .
Last 10 homeana hatchlings all seem to be thriving.
Thought I'd look over my eggs as I expected one of the redfoots to pip by now. Guess what, there is a hingeback Pipping. Shocked again. There are 3 clutches that were laid within 2 days of each other, clutches of 3 , 3 and 4. 2 eggs blew and 1 looks naff. So 7 maybe's. The last 10 had a diapause and then at 28.5°c. These did not, straight to temp at 29.2/29.5°c. The egg that has pipped took 110days. We shall see if it turns out ok.
I've tried to take a photo of the Pipping egg next to the most recent egg I've put in to show how much they expand. It hasn't worked. But they seem to get huge compared to when they are layed. Is this because I'm putting them in damp coir and covering with damp moss. I have a lid loosely laid on top of this tub within the incubator, so its super humid in that tub. Not dripping wet but very very humid.
The next clutch laid I need to weigh and measure the eggs from start to finish.

 

[Carol S]

Congratulations!! Hatchlings are so cute.

 

[Anyfoot]

This one is upside down. Do I just leave it?

 

[N2TORTS]

Very Nice .......I do flip it up-right myself ....it might turn around again ....but "nothing wrong with a little help" the one amazing thing still to this day is a wild born tort going through the madness of actually making it out of a buried nest. None-the -less.....Two Thumbs up! ^

 

[Anyfoot]

Very Nice .......I do flip it up-right myself ....it might turn around again ....but "nothing wrong with a little help" the one amazing thing still to this day is a wild born tort going through the madness of actually making it out of a buried nest. None-the -less.....Two Thumbs up! ^

Thanks Jeff. Will do.

 

[Anyfoot]

If it's going to happen, guaranteed it will happen to me.
Just got home from work(nightshift) and the little guy still in same position looking dead. No reaction when I touch it. So opened the egg to find this. It moved it's limbs, but can't tell if it was the weight of me moving it about forcing limbs to move. Both fully formed. I've put them in brooder in incubator.

 

[Anyfoot]

@HermanniChris can you point me in the direction of that thread showing how you split twins please. Looked high n low. Thanks

 

[Anyfoot]

@HermanniChris can you point me in the direction of that thread showing how you split twins please. Looked high n low. Thanks

Found it Chris. Thanks

 

[Ellen & Toby]

Wow! That's amazing, it had never occurred to me that you could get twin torts. Hope both of them are ok

 

[Anyfoot]

Not really sure what's going on here. They are both still lifeless but one has its eyes wide open now. Maybe just muscles relaxing.
Either way they are dead or we are seeing them still developing but without the shell. The yolk is way bigger than what 2 normal yolks would be.
I'll just leave them be and make sure they don't dry up. No siblings are showing yet which could be a sign of being premature, but then again.......

 

[HermanniChris]

Congrats. Hope they make it. Here's the link to the video I made when we separated out twins. They are thriving today and now living outside with the adults.

 

[Jacqui]

Hmmmmm.....

 

[Anyfoot]

Hmmmmm.....

What you thinking @Jacqui.

 

[Jacqui]

Any more signs of life?

 

[Anyfoot]

Any more signs of life?

I've been at work all night, finish in 2hrs. Will look first thing when I get home. I noticed this egg expanded quite a lot, there's another in this clutch that's the same size too. Not sure I'm liking this twin malarkey, it's fraught with danger . I'll bet there only about 10g each.

 

[Anyfoot]

Any more signs of life?

Just checked them, they are dead, other ones eyes opened now. Think I can smell them turning. No signs of the rest of the clutch hatching.

 

[Jacqui]

Dang

 

[Ellen & Toby]

That's a shame

 

[cdmay]

Not really sure what's going on here. They are both still lifeless but one has its eyes wide open now. Maybe just muscles relaxing.
Either way they are dead or we are seeing them still developing but without the shell. The yolk is way bigger than what 2 normal yolks would be.
I'll just leave them be and make sure they don't dry up. No siblings are showing yet which could be a sign of being premature, but then again.......

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I wrote an article for the German turtle magazine Schildkroten im Fokus a number of years ago on how to separate living TRIPLETS. If you check my older posts on this forum I wrote a bunch of stuff about them here too.
The short version was that they all survived and were thriving...until I used horticultural sphagnum moss in their enclosure that had been treated with pesticides. They all died within a week or so.
Making mistakes is how you learn, but that was a tough lesson.

 

[Anyfoot]

I wrote an article for the German turtle magazine Schildkroten im Fokus a number of years ago on how to separate living TRIPLETS. If you check my older posts on this forum I wrote a bunch of stuff about them here too.
The short version was that they all survived and were thriving...until I used horticultural sphagnum moss in their enclosure that had been treated with pesticides. They all died within a week or so.
Making mistakes is how you learn, but that was a tough lesson.

Thanks Carl, I'll have a look for the thread. Do all twins/triplets use the same egg sack?