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Old 30-05-2012, 12:31 AM   #1
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Default Sparkling Eggs

These seemed to be more sparkly than usual. Looks like Fairy Dust sprinkled all over them! Anybody else find this with their eggs?

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Old 30-05-2012, 01:40 AM   #2
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Yes I've found that quite often. It was also mostly with Spur-thighs.

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Old 30-05-2012, 10:44 PM   #3
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You are right, it is the Spur Thighs!
Obviously ours are the only ones, or there would have been more replies?
Any ideas on what happens? Must be something in the calcium. Do you know anyone who has researched the minerals of the shell?
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Old 30-05-2012, 10:57 PM   #4
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If the tortoises are as pretty as the eggs looks like a good thing :0)
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Old 31-05-2012, 11:54 AM   #5
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Any reason for that then?
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Old 31-05-2012, 02:30 PM   #6
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They look abit like Christmas decorations
yeah they do...shame they get all smashed up when they hatch...
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Old 31-05-2012, 04:53 PM   #7
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My tortoise laid her first clutch last year and 4 out of her 6 were just like yours she is an Ibera.
They are beautiful looking eggs arn't they
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wow,sparkly eggs never seen torts eggs like these before,best of luck hope they are all fertile,makes my torts eggs look boring,i'm incubating five horsefield eggs at the moment.
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My tortoise laid her first clutch last year and 4 out of her 6 were just like yours she is an Ibera.
They are beautiful looking eggs arn't they
Interesting. Do you think they were over calcified and did they all hatch?
The fact is my Ibera's batch were only just 20 days from the previous, so they didn't really have time to be over calcified.
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I never had much trouble with sparkly eggs hatching.

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