A Fully Recovered Agnes

[Brad Ramsey]

Here's my little sweetheart after 3 days of food, water and calcium.
She has made a full recovery (talk to us again in 30 days!)
She had a couple of days of trying to work a bit of dirt out of one of her eyes, but lots of misting has corrected that.
Her eggs are big and fat and white, incubating at about 70 degrees f. in the closet.

-Brad

 

[joefarah]

she is looking great!!!

 

[Kent67]

Her eggs are big and fat and white

What to say? What to say? LOL

Well, glad to hear the Mrs is doing just fine. I'd bet she lays on the first day she starts digging next time. Have you seen a pic of the father yet?

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Not yet.
Josh is going to send me pics this weekend.
I hope he's pretty

-Brad

 

[RhettusMaximus]

fem

o wow, i thought i read in an earlier thread that she was just cycling eggs, so she was impregnated. Very cool, looks like you'll have a bunch of babies on your hands in 5-6 months

 

[kinyonga]

Good to see she's recovered!
Don't forget there could be left over sperm!

 

[Nicodemayo]

Call me a noob if im wrong but dont veiled eggs incuabte in the high 70's? Very good looking female though.

 

[leoman]

cool

Its always good to know every thing is going to be ok

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Call me a noob if im wrong but dont veiled eggs incuabte in the high 70's? Very good looking female though.

I have read a pretty wide range of temperatures people incubate veiled eggs at. I think this may have to do with the disparity of time to hatch (6 to 10 months).
They are on the top shelf of a closet in our bedroom on the second floor. My idea is that as the weather gets better, the temperature will rise a few degrees in the incubation container.
I would rather incubate longer at a lower temperature and I think starting them at 69 to 70 for the first couple of months is fine.
Thanks for the compliment on Agnes ... I agree!

-Brad

 

[bucky]

Lol,she looks like an agnes in the first pic,im glad to hear shes doing well.

 

[Eric Adrignola]

Watch out with the closet. I did the same thing when I was in Raleigh. It's the most reliable method of incubating veields, in my experience, but it has flaws. During the summer, the temps in our 2nd floor got very high during the day. In the 80's. So, the eggs started in the low 70's, but when they got in the 80's in the summer, the eggs hatched prematurely, and their eyelids didn't fully develop (they weren't completely sealed in the front - very weird glimpse into how chameleon eyelids fuse during development. Seems they form just like other lizards - open up "normally" with two distinct lids, then zip up form the sides. Of course, this is assuming that what happened was a simple interruption of normal ontological processes, and nothing was changed from the normal developmental process aside from the time of hatching...) Never happened to be before.

Funny thing is I know people that incubate near 90 degrees, and they dont' have deformed babies. Just tiny itty bitty ones. The increase int emp triggered a very early hatch (for me) at 6 months.

Normally, incubated in the lower to mid 70's, my animals hatch at 8 months. And they hatch out huge. Last clutch was eating 1/4" crickets from day one.

The rason my closeti n Raleigh was flawed was that most of my clutches hatched i the winter - but the last one there hatched during the summer. The temps got high in that room during the summer - even in the closet.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Eric,
Thanks!

I have a digital probe in the container and plan to monitor temps closely as the weather gets warmer.
I have cooler places in the house to move the eggs to if the closet gets too hot.

-Brad