11-09-2012, 10:19 PM | #51 |
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I've been putting the recent eggs straight into the incubator at 28C. None of the summer laid eggs have entered diapause, they're all developing. *18C would do the trick for diapause, I put mine in a cooler bag(no ice pack!) in a cool room. A bit of variation work matter. *Another of my February eggs has started developing after 3 months of cool temperatures and two months back in the incubator so I cant really give you any tips.
I haven't hibernated the three striped. * *I use a water heater at 25C most of the year and I switch this off around December for a month and have the lights further away so they get a cool down.* |
13-09-2012, 06:52 PM | #52 |
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Eggs go in, turtles come out.
Two hatched today with a third sitting it out in the egg. My home is overrun with tiny turtles. |
13-09-2012, 09:08 PM | #53 |
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How sweet is that!
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15-09-2012, 12:03 AM | #54 |
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Note to self: stop incubating on sphagnum moss.
I thought I'd try it as an alternative to vermiculite. The two eggs on sphagnum (3 months old) have a crack running the length of the underside. It hasn't affected the inner membrane but I've switched them to vermiculite. David Kirkpatrick wrote about longitudinal crack appearing a month before hatching but I haven't seen this til now. Doesn't say what incubation medium he was using; just says sphagnum or a dirt/vermiculite mixture. |
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