Cutting Eggs Like BPs.

[mlededee]

Well at first we had read that the eggs hatch at 76-80 degrees and a 60-80 day incubation time. So I use a frige/freezer as an incubator for bps. The temps in the freezer above my fridge stayed around 80 degrees. There was no heat in the freezer section, but the heat rising for the fridge were getting to hot i found them at 82 on some days. Deciding this was the cause of the eggs not hatching we moved the eggs to a shelf in the room. Still was having problems with the eggs not hatching.

Any eggs that were in the incubator with high temps would have been affected by the heat they received. A few hours of excess heat can be enough to kill a baby in the egg, cause deformities or other problems. Moving those eggs to cooler temperatures might not have any affect on those eggs, only those that were laid and placed into the cooler temps from the start would totally benefit from those proper temps.

After talking to others on this forum we decided the food was the cause of the geckos not hatching. The females may not have been healthy enough. I also seperated my males from the females at this time. This was our females first year breeding could it be due to that?

A healthy first year breeder female should lay healthy eggs with babies that have no problems hatching. She may lay one or two infertile clutches before she starts laying fertile ones, but beyond that all of the clutches should be good. If you have a female that has been laying for a long time with no break and is getting depleted, her last few clutches may go bad due to the fact that she was not healthy enough when the eggs were developing and being laid.