Re: Iguana eggs

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Posted by Mr. D on May 05, 2001 at 14:35:56:

In Reply to: Iguana eggs posted by Kate on May 05, 2001 at 14:11:22:

I guess my first question, Kate, is exactly WHY you would want to hatch all 30 of these eggs (assuming that they have been fertilized)? If you want to keep one or two for yourself as more pets great, but since you're in South Florida anyway, I'm sure that you'll begin to be over run with wild iguanas within the next two or three years, given everything we're hearing about them down there. If it is so you can show your children "the miracle of birth" - I'll send you a videotape....
As far as hide/nesting boxes go, we just went through this with our largest female, Mel. Despite having a box at her disposal 24/7 well before she began to lay her eggs, she decided to lay them on the top shelf of her enclosure on her blanket where it was nice and toasty. (90+) The first egg actually came while she was in the bath tub. After she had stopped laying for 48 hours I took her outside for some fresh air. When we came back in she jumped up on her shelf and proceeded to lay another egg. Good thing we came in when we did. The point here is that they'll pretty much lay eggs wherever they feel comfortable doing it.

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: I guess my first question, Kate, is exactly WHY you would want to hatch all 30 of these eggs (assuming that they have been fertilized)? If you want to keep one or two for yourself as more pets great, but since you're in South Florida anyway, I'm sure that you'll begin to be over run with wild iguanas within the next two or three years, given everything we're hearing about them down there. If it is so you can show your children "the miracle of birth" - I'll send you a videotape.... : As far as hide/nesting boxes go, we just went through this with our largest female, Mel. Despite having a box at her disposal 24/7 well before she began to lay her eggs, she decided to lay them on the top shelf of her enclosure on her blanket where it was nice and toasty. (90+) The first egg actually came while she was in the bath tub. After she had stopped laying for 48 hours I took her outside for some fresh air. When we came back in she jumped up on her shelf and proceeded to lay another egg. Good thing we came in when we did. The point here is that they'll pretty much lay eggs wherever they feel comfortable doing it.

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