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

    Is fricking hard work LOL



    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

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    and my hold back hatchlings from a different female just for fun

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    Oh they are beautiful. How long is the waiting period now??
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    Lets just say it has advanced to ....way too much to list

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    Re: Digging up monitor eggs.........

    Thank you. They take 90+ days to hatch.

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

    That is not bad at all then!
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    Re: Digging up monitor eggs.........

    Congrats, and I really love the enclosure.
    “I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.”Winston Churchill
    1.0 '10 piebald, 0.1 '10 het piebald, 01 '07 het. Piebald
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    0.1 '11+T Albino Blood, 0.1 '11 poss het. +T Albino Blood

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    Re: Digging up monitor eggs.........

    Quote Originally Posted by BPelizabeth View Post
    Oh wow I totally thought you were gonna tell me a hundred and something....lol

    That is not bad at all then!
    ................................... Oh, they can go 120+ . I was just being conservative

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    Congrats, and I really love the enclosure.
    ......................... Thank you, but from the outside its just an ugly cattle trough.

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    Re: Digging up monitor eggs.........

    what's your substrate mix?

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    Re: Digging up monitor eggs.........

    Sand and dirt.

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