Incubating Eggs Together

[Jayrhamlin]

Well now I've gone and done it. I have "inadvertently" mated my bearded dragons. It's a long story but basically I had a lamp fixture blow out in one of my in wall enclosures and had to pull the enclosure out of the wall to fix it. I removed my male beardie who had been brumating for 3 months and placed him in one of my females enclosure overnight until I could get a new fixture. Apparently the scent of the female was enough to wake him up as I caught them "in the act" yesterday afternoon. I did have plans to breed them but not for another couple months. Anyway on to my question . . .

I am expecting a BP clutch in a couple of weeks. By my calculations it's possible that I can end up with beardie eggs while the BP eggs are in the incubator. If that happens, is it possible to incubate the eggs together? I am reading that beardie eggs need lower temps (low 80s) but I have also seen people that incubate @ 87. Does anyone have experience with this? I need another incubator don't I?

[blackfish707]

I have no clue, but I'm excited for you!


Hopefully someone will be along to answer your question, soon.

[Jayrhamlin]

Sorry to revive this old thread buy can anyone shed some light on this? I'm thinking of incubating @ 86 which is the lower end for balls and the higher end for BDs. Any thoughts?

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[MarkS]

I've done it. Incubated both ball python and bearded dragons together. I had my incubator set to 88 degrees. I DID put the BD eggs on the bottom shelf which is typically a hair cooler but not by that much. They all hatched.

[Jayrhamlin]

That's awesome thanks for the reply. My BP laid 10 seemingly healthy eggs this morning. I have then in the Bator at 87.5

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