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Hey guys,
In April my female sulcata laid her first clutch of 8 eggs, 3 of which were fertile, the other five went bad after about 3-4 weeks. They remained in the house at about 78degrees for about 4 weeks and then were moved onto my patio under a lamp to stay around 85 degrees or so. I candled them at two months and THOUGHT they were also infertile since I did not see any embryo or vains. Surprisingly 100 days into the incubation I recandled them and behold they were fertile and of course have hatched and are healthy babies.
My issue is that she laid another clutch of 16(one broken/smashed) so 15 eggs in early September. One egg had a small crack indention but the rest were normal. Well now that its a 2.5 months later I've candled them a few times and only the egg with the small indention has obvious embryo development and the others dont show any embryo or vains. I've read some limited sources on diapause so about 5 weeks ago I lowered the temperature for the eggs to 70-72(planning to do it for 30-40days). I haven't candled them since but I plan to turn the temperature back up to the mid 80s-low90s very soon, hopefully to trigger development.
Im slightly worried because although they all have the same weight and no bad smell, the developing egg is obviously WHITER than all the others. Please could you help me to decifer what is going on and if I'm doing anything wrong?
The wierd part is that this happened last time and they hatched out fine at 150-160 days. Is it possible that this is just a normal egg cycle for this female? and if so why would the indented egg be developing way faster than the others?
INPUT PLEASE!!!! thanks
In April my female sulcata laid her first clutch of 8 eggs, 3 of which were fertile, the other five went bad after about 3-4 weeks. They remained in the house at about 78degrees for about 4 weeks and then were moved onto my patio under a lamp to stay around 85 degrees or so. I candled them at two months and THOUGHT they were also infertile since I did not see any embryo or vains. Surprisingly 100 days into the incubation I recandled them and behold they were fertile and of course have hatched and are healthy babies.
My issue is that she laid another clutch of 16(one broken/smashed) so 15 eggs in early September. One egg had a small crack indention but the rest were normal. Well now that its a 2.5 months later I've candled them a few times and only the egg with the small indention has obvious embryo development and the others dont show any embryo or vains. I've read some limited sources on diapause so about 5 weeks ago I lowered the temperature for the eggs to 70-72(planning to do it for 30-40days). I haven't candled them since but I plan to turn the temperature back up to the mid 80s-low90s very soon, hopefully to trigger development.
Im slightly worried because although they all have the same weight and no bad smell, the developing egg is obviously WHITER than all the others. Please could you help me to decifer what is going on and if I'm doing anything wrong?
The wierd part is that this happened last time and they hatched out fine at 150-160 days. Is it possible that this is just a normal egg cycle for this female? and if so why would the indented egg be developing way faster than the others?
INPUT PLEASE!!!! thanks
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