Incubator temperature and humidity

kazjimmy

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Why am I always get the sulcata baby hatch out on 75 day when I have them place on high humidity incubator? 88f/80%

Any one have this problem?

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Yvonne G

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My leopard tortoises take 5 or 6 months to hatch at 88F degrees. I'm tempted to set the heat up a bit for the next batch.
 

kazjimmy

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My leopard tortoises take 5 or 6 months to hatch at 88F degrees. I'm tempted to set the heat up a bit for the next batch.

My hatch method were very old school. Some will hatch out 6-7 days later. Someone told me they already using the aim temperature to every sign eggs by using small led to the eggs. Just like hatch a bird or chicken. Maybe you can try that out to reduce your hatch time.
 

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What do you mean by "problem"? What is your concern?

I have extremely accurate and stable temperature and humidity in my incubators for TSD studies. Proportional thermostats and higher end, redundant thermometers/hygrometers. For my sulcata eggs, they always hatch at 82-88 days. This year's were done at 89.5° and 85%-90% humidity. 84 days to hatch with no scute abnormalities at all.

You have something different going on with a 75 day hatch, I would check your thermomters' accuracy and/or daily spikes in temperatures. Do you monitor temps with sensors and reading every 5 or 15 minutes to see what is actually happening during the course of a day. You will be surprised over simply looking at a high/low a few times a day. Do you get any extra/abnormal scute hatchlings?
 
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