Pygmy Eggs! A few questions..

[Tanuki]

Hi, as I was in the process of moving my bearded pygmies to a new tank, the old one had a problem, I discovered three eggs!

I did not find them until the tank was almost empty except for the substrate surrounding them ( about 12x12in).

Then as I was cleaning my other pygmy enclosure, I found three more!

Now for the questions:

1. In the bare cage, should I carefully extract the eggs into a small container with Vermiculite? Or should I add some plants around the eggs and keep them in there until they hatch?

2. Now the three other eggs are in their parents enclosure, and the eggs are pretty far in there. Would it be better in this situation to leave the eggs, for a hatching in the vivarium?

Both sets of eggs seem to have been laid quite a while ago.They look fertile, and large to me, though.

Thank you!

 

[ForrestJungle]

I bet it would help if you could post some pictures and give temps of maybe what they enclosure and ground temps are. that's pretty exciting to just find some eggs! I have wanted some pygmy's for a while now. I am sorry that I could not be of more help.

 

[c81kennedy]

IV had better luck leaving them in the cage if they have been there longer then a few days and having dried up.

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

I've taken eggs out to incubate when they were laid several weeks before I found them. They all hatched! I personally like to have more control over the incubating environment because I've found some eggs that dried out in the enclosures. Plus, I lost a baby that hatched in the enclosure because the mom mistaked it for food and tried to eat it. So I prefer to remove them.

 

[DavidBuchan]

I've taken eggs out to incubate when they were laid several weeks before I found them. They all hatched! I personally like to have more control over the incubating environment because I've found some eggs that dried out in the enclosures. Plus, I lost a baby that hatched in the enclosure because the mom mistaked it for food and tried to eat it. So I prefer to remove them.

Damn, I know you're good Dayna........but you manged to get the eggs in the incubator before you found them? That's some proper Jedi skill you got

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

Eggs that were laid in the cage and then I found them several weeks after that.

 

[Tanuki]

It's been almost 2 months, and they started to hatch!



That's 1 down and 4 to go.

 

[c81kennedy]

Congratulations good luck with the babies.

 

[JimO]

Cool! You've got pyglets!