Digging up monitor eggs.........

Is fricking hard work LOL
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_1983.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_2000.jpg

She laid 11 eggs with 8 being fertile. Thankfully this nesting (unlike her last clutch) went very well for her. They were laid 16" down on the very bottom of the trough in soil temp gunned at 85.5F

The "proud" parents

Mom
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_1580.jpg

Dad
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...0002-1-1-1.jpg

and my hold back hatchlings from a different female just for fun
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_1866.jpg

Oh they are beautiful. How long is the waiting period now??

Thank you. They take 90+ days to hatch.

Oh wow :O I totally thought you were gonna tell me a hundred and something....lol:rolleyes:

That is not bad at all then!

Congrats, and I really love the enclosure.

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Originally Posted by BPelizabeth

Oh wow :O I totally thought you were gonna tell me a hundred and something....lol:rolleyes:

That is not bad at all then!

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................................... Oh, they can go 120+ . I was just being conservative :D

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Originally Posted by dragonboy4578

Congrats, and I really love the enclosure.

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......................... Thank you, but from the outside its just an ugly cattle trough.
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_1104.jpg

what's your substrate mix?

Sand and dirt.