Re: [gecko]Dented hard-shelled eggs

[Mark van Ijzendoorn]

Hard shelled eggs are soft when they're being laid and harden up very quickly. If there's a dent in the egg very short after laying, the egg dries up and the dent remains. You can do nothing about it and it useually is nothing to worry about. I've had many dented hard shelled eggs and out all of them came healhty hatchlings. (the hatchlings did't had any dents either :-) ) So just put them in an incubator and don't increase the humidity, as that may damage the eggs.   regards,   Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: oyarsa To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 5:59 AM Subject: [gecko]Dented hard-shelled eggs Can anyone tell me what it means when hard-shelled eggs are dented after being laid? It seems the majority of eggs produced by my spider gecko are dented. Not too long ago, one of these dried up after a few weeks. It got to about 3 or 4 days of development but stopped. I don't know if this is because of the dent or because of some other factor. Today, both of her new eggs were dented. For a soft-shelled egg I'd just increase the humidity but I don't think dents in hard-shelled eggs pop out the same way.   My only other thought was that the female didn't have enough water before she laid the eggs.   Does anyone know what causes this?   Mike