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#20279
Adam_A
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Baby dragon 
| okay i had one remaining egg left that had not hatched yet and the the day before yesterday liquid in the egg came out so i thought the lizard was about to hatch. nothing happened for a day and a half and today i cut the egg open to find a baby dragon in the egg w/ its sack still aatached to its stomach? is there any thing i can do at all? i have the baby still incubating in the incubator and thats all i really could do this is really heartbreaking for me to see a baby lizard like that so if someone could please help me out it would be great thanks. |
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12/21/03 6:45pm
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#20312
Jewel
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Message To: Adam_A In reference to Message Id: 20279
Baby dragon
what a bummer. i’m not a pro, but no one else has answered yet thought i’d make a suggestion. i would try not to open incubator very often to cut down chance of any organism getting in since it’s first line of defense is gone, but definetly would keep the substrate you have it in moist not directly on the embryo but around it. just keep it in the incubator and hope for the best if i’m not mistaken i beleive i read somewhere that this highly lessens their chances.:(
good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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12/21/03 9:20pm
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#20327
Blue eyes
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Message To: Jewel In reference to Message Id: 20312
Baby dragon
| Yes, you shouldn’t cut the egg. I have never read of anyone being successful with cutting an egg or helping a baby out. |
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12/21/03 10:00pm
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#20547
Adam_A
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Message To: Blue In reference to Message Id: 20327
Baby dragon
| well the only reason that i did is because i thought the baby would be dead. but now i dont know how i can tell if it is alive or not is there any way? If there is what is the best thing i can do for the baby? Thanks for all the help |
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12/23/03 12:04am
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#20589
Blue eyes
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Message To: Adam_A In reference to Message Id: 20547
Baby dragon
| Well I guess all you can do is watch and wait. Sometimes they look dead because they sleep so deep. If it does make it I would keep it by itself because if it is weaker than the others it may get picked on. Let us know what happens. |
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12/23/03 10:13am
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#20654
Drgnldy
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Message To: Adam_A In reference to Message Id: 20547
Baby dragon
| I can tell you from my own experience. We had 1 egg out of a 21 clutch that didn’t hatch on time. 5 days later still no hatchling. We candled it & could see it was still alive, gave it a couple more days & still it didn’t hatch...so we opened the egg & incubated it even longer. Eventually we pulled it out of egg & continued to incubate. To make a long story short, it died 7 weeks later. We got it pretty much to complete health, but it never really had the strength. I wonder now if it would have been stronger if we didn’t mess with it & let it hatch on it’s own time. According to the books, if the hatchling doesn’t break the egg 10 days after the others to break it for them. I know that this really doesn’t help. I think eventually every breader goes through this and all you can do is do your best through trial & error. |
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12/23/03 6:56pm
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#21091
Adam_A
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Message To: Drgnldy In reference to Message Id: 20654
Baby dragon
| Thanks for all of yalls help but unfortunately the lizard wasnt alive it began to grow mold on it i think it has something to do w/ the egg it wasnt like a normal egg it was veiny and kinda pinkish does that mean ne thing. You propably figured out this was my first time doing this its my females also.But thanks again! |
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12/26/03 10:57pm
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