Hi all,
I need all advices here.
My Sulcata pair have been breeding and so far she laid 6 clutches of average 20 eggs per clutch. Thank god (I hope) she is done for this year. I have 4 clutches hatched at average of 80-85%hatching rate. I incubate them at about 87F with about 80% humidity. Everything seems to be just fine until the 5th clutch just started to hatched last week. The first egg hatched at about 75 days and so far 10 babies hatched, but 5 of them didn't make it through the second day. Some who died, seem to be very weak, smaller and got a lot of egg yolk outside their body. Most of those cracked the shell but didn't make it all out, a few of them successfully hatched but died a few days later. They (5 who died) acted lethargic and eventually died. The other 5 seems to be ok, eating, drinking and moving around. I never changed any set up on my incubator since it always running. The temperature and humidity always showed 87F/80humid. It just broke my heart to see those little guys dies. If anyone have any of this early dead or any suggestions at all, please let me know. I am open to anything.
Thank you so much.
I need all advices here.
My Sulcata pair have been breeding and so far she laid 6 clutches of average 20 eggs per clutch. Thank god (I hope) she is done for this year. I have 4 clutches hatched at average of 80-85%hatching rate. I incubate them at about 87F with about 80% humidity. Everything seems to be just fine until the 5th clutch just started to hatched last week. The first egg hatched at about 75 days and so far 10 babies hatched, but 5 of them didn't make it through the second day. Some who died, seem to be very weak, smaller and got a lot of egg yolk outside their body. Most of those cracked the shell but didn't make it all out, a few of them successfully hatched but died a few days later. They (5 who died) acted lethargic and eventually died. The other 5 seems to be ok, eating, drinking and moving around. I never changed any set up on my incubator since it always running. The temperature and humidity always showed 87F/80humid. It just broke my heart to see those little guys dies. If anyone have any of this early dead or any suggestions at all, please let me know. I am open to anything.
Thank you so much.