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Scott W · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject: Glauerti - eggs failed

Oh well I can join the Dead In Shell glauerti club now Sad

Still got a couple of other clutches, plus a few pairs have been mating this week, so fingers crossed for next batch.
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JStroud · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject:

Sorry to hear that mate, must be gutting. Anyone have any idea as to why this keeps happening?
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Thomas Shanta · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject:

:xGutted mate,. It can be very frustrating this reptile keeping at times.

Scott W · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject:

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JStroud · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 4:27 pm Post subject:

Cheers Paul Wink

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peaches · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject:

Damn shame Scott, fingers crossed for the rest.

goldenburm · Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject:

mate sorry to hear that, how close were they to hatching!?!?! Did they break through, or slit the egg, is there an egg tooth on them, if not did they drown in the egg, due to this??

sorry just curious!

Peter
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Scott W · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:37 am Post subject:

I would say that they should of hatched a week perhaps earlier, it's hard to say, I know of some that hatch at 100 days others much later, these were at 180 days!

Could of been the low temps, too much water, not enough water but personally I think the eggs were doomed the moment they were laid. I tend to think that good eggs hatch bad eggs don't, they just die off at various stages of incubation.

I think I'll increase calcium supplements for the adults and do everything else the same for the next batch.

These particular babies were Dead in Shell, I had cut a bad egg open weeks ago and it had a partially formed baby inside (still alive), so I thought the eggs just needed more time. I then had an egg start leaking fluid a few weeks back but decided to leave that to 'nature'. This egg finally started to look real bad so I cut it open last week, again there was a live baby inside very weak looking with a curved snout. this lead me to leave the last two eggs to see what would happen. I only cut them open as they had sunk in a lot and I could not feel any movement inside.
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Rickeezee · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:41 am Post subject:

keep on trying mate, you'll get there in the end! Sorry about this clutch not working out.
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