Not having good luck

[MKHerps]

Ok this is the first year for us to breed crestedes. We have three females. All laid eggs in March. Two of them laid two eggs and the other only one. So 56 day later the first little one hatches
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The next night i find it sibling cutting the egg, but hours go by and no gecko emerges from the egg. I no longer see moving. So i finally decide to cut the egg open only to find a dead gecko. I single egg laid also went bad, probablly never fertilized. So i have two eggs left from round one and they are starting to turn black, they also went bad at 60 days. Since all females laid two eggs about 6 weeks after round one. These eggs should be hatching soon all seem to be doing good. Two nights ago we started getting round three of egg laying. Only one female left in round three.

[mlededee]

Sometimes a baby can't make it out of the egg if the substrate is not humid enough or if it is too weak because it's mother was unhealthy or had low calcium reserves when the egg was forming. Make sure your substrate to be moist but not wet--you don't want condensation dripping on the eggs and that your females are eating Repashy CGD and have full calcium reserves in order to avoid this. You can supplement your breeding females with Repashy SuperCal if needed: http://www.pangeareptile.com/store/i...oduct_id=29812. There is a low, medium and high version of the SuperCal--medium is good for breeding females. You can dust insects with this if you feed them or add it in very small amounts to their CGD.

The other eggs that did not hatch may well not have been fertile--it is quite common for the first clutch not to be fertile.

[MKHerps]

Thanks, I will try to increase the calcium. I mixed a 2:1 ratio on my medium. 2 parts perilite to 1 part water. There is no condisation.

[Mettle]

Also, from my experience, some female geckos in their first year of breeding simply have variable results with producing eggs/healthy young. Follow the tips given to you above and you should be good. Anything else is left up to nature to take care of.

My opinion is that if the baby isn't strong enough to make it out of the egg on its own it's probably not meant to be.