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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! did you do the little egg dance when you found them?

i usually use hatchrite, so i don’t know the exact amount of water you are supposed to add, but i think it is 50/50... ehh, but don’t go by that. the ultimate check is that it is damp, but you can not squeeze any more excess water from it[so squeeze the water out and then you are fine]. you could always check the humidity in the incubator as well, it should be between 95 and 99%, well that is what i keep mine at. and if there is a large temperature fluctuation, don’t be surprised if you do see water droplets forming on the sides of the container. it is normal, but you do want to make sure that the eggs are not touching the sides or the top of the container and that they are about 1/2 way buried. oh and the last thing, you want to open the container once a week for a few seconds just to let in fresh air. also, the eggs will grow as the baby grows inside it, and about a week [maybe two...] before it hatches it will start to look more round than oval...

have you candled them yet?

good luck over the next three months, it will seem like forever, but it is worth it!
[ps: post pics of the parents!!!!!! ]

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yeah that is what it is. it is really the only way that you will know if an egg is fertile or not, but it isn’t required or anything, and some people don’t candle, it is really just personal preference i think. when i first started breeding i went a little candling happy and did it at least once a week to check up on the progress of the eggs. as long as you don’t flip them upside down or shake them really bad everything should be fine. what i do is i walk into the bathroom with the incubator, turn on my pen light, turn off the over head, and sit down on the ground just so that if anything does happen, there is at least less of a chance of the egg cracking, or going down the drain... omg, i can’t imagine...

now i do it once a month if i can stop myself from doing it more often! it is really cool though because as the eggs get bigger you can start to see the little baby inside. it is really neat, i used to take notes on everything that i saw, and that was why i did it once a week. i still take notes, but i only candle them once a month now just to kind of check up on them make sure everything is going the way the others did! lol, but i weigh the eggs too, so i may just be overly surveillance happy or something! or maybe i am just a nerd!

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