I knew she would dump

[N2TORTS]

Well ...Elizabeth' ...finally laid again! .... caught her in action this afternoon. 7 nice heavy healthy looking eggs. For her that makes 13 eggs in 6 weeks ! ...woo hoo~

JD~

 

[Tropical Torts]

Holy smokes thats alot of eggs JD! Congrats!!

 

[dmarcus]

Very cool, congrats...

 

[Torty Mom]

Yayyyyy!! Congrats!! She is a busy lady tortie!!

 

[bigred]

Thats great Eggs always make for a good day. Now you dont have to worry about her laying eggs for about a month or so

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Great, congrats.

 

[Geochelone_Carbonaria]

That's amazing, congrats !!!

 

[tyler0912]

Congrats!

 

[african cake queen]

wow! great pics. good luck.

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

Congrats!

 

[Geochelone_Carbonaria]

What kind of incubator and control equipment are you using JD ?

 

[N2TORTS]

What kind of incubator and control equipment are you using JD ?

Mike , last season I bought one of those Exo Terra Reptile Incubator thermoelectric technology...bla bla bla ....the darn thing broke 2 months later ( just stopped running period!) My mistake I bought it online so forget about returning it ( I wasnt a happy camper...I lost eggs due to this ) . So I'm back to the ol' fashion hova bator. Nothing fancy , but I dont like the distrabution of heat design. The heating element is " fixed" therefore area under it retains much more heat. A better design would some how distribute heat evenly over the ground surface..... How about you?

JD~

 

[CT Grim]

Wayyyyyy NEATO!!!

 

[Geochelone_Carbonaria]

What kind of incubator and control equipment are you using JD ?

Mike , last season I bought one of those Exo Terra Reptile Incubator thermoelectric technology...bla bla bla ....the darn thing broke 2 months later ( just stopped running period!) My mistake I bought it online so forget about returning it ( I wasnt a happy camper...I lost eggs due to this ) . So I'm back to the ol' fashion hova bator. Nothing fancy , but I dont like the distrabution of heat design. The heating element is " fixed" therefore area under it retains much more heat. A better design would some how distribute heat evenly over the ground surface..... How about you?

JD~

Mine is kinda homemade, got the idea from a "reptile zoo" in Malmoe;

I use a glass tank with an immersion heater and 3 inch of water, two pieces of standing glass at the bottom, an aluminium grid on top of those where I can put the eggs, and a leaning top so the water dont drip on the eggs.

The immersion heater is set to 29,7 C and this should hold the temperature steady as well as the humidity at 97-98. I now have kind of insulated it all with styrofoam around it, to keep the temperature even more steady.

But I'm not really happy anyway with the immersion heater, I think it is dependant on the temperature in the room. So when the temperature drops for the night in the terrariums, it affects the incubator too. So I get like a temperature drop for about 1-1.5 degrees C during nighttime. I don't know if it's good or bad....?

 

[Yvonne G]

A little off topic, and please forgive me, JD, but Mike: What record are you about to break to be in the record book?

 

[Geochelone_Carbonaria]

A little off topic, and please forgive me, JD, but Mike: What record are you about to break to be in the record book?

LOL ! Yep, this is really off topic. We actually broke the record late this summer in Sweden, and there was an attempt in Hawaii after that to break ours (but that failed). I hope you're not from Hawaii ?

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/video-sweden-strums-its-way-to-ukulele-world-record/