Help! What should I do

[adamb94]

Over the holidays my female was getting really large, I didnt think it was much, but once I came back the person who was looking after them said she had got really skinny. So I finally found the eggs she had laid, about 60 of them. Really white. So I am now running around crazy. What should I do....

 

[Miss Lily]

It depends wether or not they are fertile! Has she been mated at all? If not then they are probably infertile so you can just bin them. Females can cycle a second clutch from retained sperm from a sinlge mating.

 

[pssh]

Are they fertile?

 

[Chris Hill]

Get a tuper ware, some terbrickulite or how ever u spell it and stick it in ur closet for 6-9 monthe if you wanna keep them or find some one who wants them they should be kept at about 68 degress or so for the first 2 monthe them bumbed up to 73ish after the 4th month you can up the temp to 75 you should hatch around 6 to 7 months

 

[adamb94]

she was with a male so i believe they are fertile.
ive heard that the more white they are the better the possibility of being fertile.
i did just as such..i hope they are fertile, its worth a shot.

is potting soil ok for the eggs

(my question mark doesnt work)

 

[kinyonga]

You need to get them set up quickly so they don't dry out or take on too much water if the substrate where they were buried was too moist.

You need a couple of shoebox sized plastic containers with lids. Put two tiny holes in the lids. Fill the containers about half full of the coarse vermiculite that has been barely moistened. (Other substrates have worked for other people, but IMHO this is the best.) To test for moisture of the vermiculite, take a fist full of it...if you can only squeeze a drop or two of water out of it then its should be right. I only fill them half full to leave "head room" for when they hatch.

Make small dents in rows in the vermiculite with your thumb and lay the eggs in the dents trying not to turn them as you move them from where they are laid. Put the lid on and put them somewhere dark where the temperature is in the mid to high 70's.

 

[adamb94]

well i did a finaly count...58. i was close.
i guess time will tell now.
how often should i mist it