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[GeckoLass]

Hi everyone
My leopard gecko laid 2 eggs in her moist hide this morning but i have never had eggs before and i don't have an incubator. I have marked the top of the eggs and removed the eggs from the hide and put them in a small food storage tub with vermiculite which i wetted and squeezed the excess water out, i laid them in without turning them and closed the lid and put them in my other viv with my younger lone gecko as i feel there is more space in his.
I don't know if i have done this right or not?
Or if i need air holes in the small tub?
Can someone please advise me what to do i want to give the eggs the best chance possible i worried i ruin their chances.
Please help
Thanks Gemma
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[Just A Beginner]

Short of having an incubator, that is about the best you can do!

I'd nestle a thermometer in with the eggs, so you have at least some clue as to their incubation temperatures, if I were you.

Plus, you could do with putting a few small holes in the egg tub, but eggs don't have very high 'breathing' rates, so just lifting the lid every couple of days would be plenty of fresh air for them (though they will need more and more oxygen the closer they get to hatching). Making too many holes will make the humidity inside the egg box drop and present a danger of drying out.

Best of luck with them, you are in for the waiting game now. I'm only waiting on three eggs myself at the moment, it always seems worse the fewer ggs you have
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[GeckoLass]

Thanks so much my mind is at slight rest now i am searching frantically for a poly box to make my own incubator would a strip thermometer be ok like the ones for aquariums I'm pretty new to all this i really hope yours hatch well and healthy what morphs are the parents?
Gemma
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Altogether i have a zoo of 45 scaley's and slimey's
and 6 furries
And i LOVE em all

[Just A Beginner]

One of the glass in-water aquarium thermometers is what I use. You could use a stick-on one, it will still tell you the temperature, but you might want to stick a cut out bit of plastic bag to the back, just incase a hatchling digs around it, so it won't get stuck. It'll stop vermiculite and humidity ruining the stickyness so much too.

Getting little geckos unstuck from sticky things isn't fun, as a few people on here could tell you!

I'm actually waiting on African fat tail eggs, from a normal stripe x albino mating. The oldest ones are due late next month. Can't wait!!

I hope yours incubate well too and hatch out healthy, happy and hungry!
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[GeckoLass]

brilliant thanks I'm sure iv got 1 somewhere fingers crossed their ok just a waiting game now
Thanks for all your help.
I'm sure you'll have some beauties hatching soon
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Altogether i have a zoo of 45 scaley's and slimey's
and 6 furries
And i LOVE em all