LauRuffian
Perpetual Newbie
Yo. My sweet lavender Kamalah laid 19 eggs in her first ever clutch on 5/28. I found that clutch huge for a first timer! Anyway, the last three eggs out look strange--I thought they were slugs, but candling showed they were fertile. On closer inspection it seems like the shell doesn't go all the way around. I separated the ugliest looking egg and mold (both black and white) have found it. It's still round, though, so who knows. Another egg has caved in and seems to have clearly died. There's a third egg with a bit of black mold (I think it's still good though), but otherwise at least 16 of the eggs are looking great so I'm just chalking it up to loss.
I went by a nearby reptile supply store to get more Hatchrite and showed their main corn breeder pics of the eggs. She said Kamalah ran out of calcium. They see it more in lizards, but it does happen in corns. I've never heard about that happening. Curious; have any of you experienced this and reached the same conclusion?
Here's a picture earlier on. Due to a family emergency, I had to go out of town the day after the eggs were laid and couldn't monitor them and they dried out a touch--I took this pic a few days to help me keep track of them rehydrating. They're much better now and still candling well (well, mostly). The eggs in question with seemingly incomplete shells are the one separated and on the far left and the one still attached to the clutch on the far left bottom.
I went by a nearby reptile supply store to get more Hatchrite and showed their main corn breeder pics of the eggs. She said Kamalah ran out of calcium. They see it more in lizards, but it does happen in corns. I've never heard about that happening. Curious; have any of you experienced this and reached the same conclusion?
Here's a picture earlier on. Due to a family emergency, I had to go out of town the day after the eggs were laid and couldn't monitor them and they dried out a touch--I took this pic a few days to help me keep track of them rehydrating. They're much better now and still candling well (well, mostly). The eggs in question with seemingly incomplete shells are the one separated and on the far left and the one still attached to the clutch on the far left bottom.