Quad egg incubation....

[Buddyboy]

Recently bought a pair of quadricornis and our female laid last week.
Eggs are currently in a home made incubator, resting on vermiculite and at a temp of 70F....

Is this correct or how should we go about incubating these ???

 

[laurie]

Welcome & Congratulations, I was so excited when my baby quads started hatching. You have your set up just like mine but I kept my temp at 68 the whole time. I think 70 should be fine. Let us know and pictures of your quads would be great.

 

[Buddyboy]

Thanx laurie....glad we got things right as it seemed almost impossible to find much info on these until we found this forum.
How long, roughly, before we might expect them to hatch ??

Ps..popped a few pics up in the photography section there

 

[Chase]

Did these eggs ever hatch?

LPR08

 

[Buddyboy]

https://www.chameleonforums.com/first-irish-cb-quads-55705/

Managed to hatch out 8 eventually though lost 8 dead in shell unfortunately. She has recently laid another 16 and am going to try the SIM incubation container this time to see if this helps to prevent any dead in shell cases

 

[kinyonga]

Congrats on hatching them! They sure are cute!

The ones that didn't make it...were the babies fully formed? Where their tongues hanging out? How moist was your substrate?

 

[laurie]

Thanks so much Buddy, i do love baby quad pictures. Glad those 8 are doing well for you. Better luck with the next 16.

 

[Buddyboy]

Yes, fully formed but no tongue hanging out.......these 8 hatched over 3 days and I started to remove them soon after hatching as they were very lively at birth and more than willing to climb over the other eggs and knock them. Perhaps this let out too much humidity as opened and closed 8 times, also this amount of disturbance may have set back hatching in the others.

 

[Chase]

What temps did you use?

LPR08

 

[Warrix642]

Congrats! Good luck with your babies and new clutch!

 

[Buddyboy]

What temps did you use?

LPR08

Incubated at a constant 70F, heating from above instead of my normal base heating in homemade incubators

 

[Chase]

I have about two weeks left until I get Quad eggs. I am trying to find a place that is constantly 70... Having a hard time.

LPR08

 

[Buddyboy]

We actually had to put a heatmat and thermostat on ours to hold a steady 70F here as our winter temps are so low, lol......

 

[Chase]

What did you use for an incubator? It says home made, what did it look like?

LPR08

 

[Gazzatino]

thats great...did the female dig a hole to lay eggs?