Dead or Alive? Detailed Turtle Egg Candling and inspection of eggs. How to tell Fertile vs Infertile
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2022
- Learn how to tell if a turtle egg is alive, what an infertile egg looks like, are dimples or dents normal for turtle eggs, and much more. Learn how we do egg check ups and how we manage our turtle eggs here. This video applies to almost all aquatic turtles. Soon we will see these eggs hatching and watching the start of these baby turtles time with us. If you have any questions please post them in the comments below.
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My turtle laid eggs over the weekend while i was at my moms... unfortunately they were all in the water :/ hopefully i found them in time.
Keep us posted
How are they doing??
Our red eared slider laid 9 eggs June 19th outside in their habitat. 10 days short of 4 months and one is hatching. He is taking his time coming out. 4 days so far and he is almost ready to leave the shell. QUESTION: I have searched and searched for an answer ! Do you have ANY idea why one of the eggs has grown to the size of a golf ball? Actually a little bigger! Two others have continued to get larger as well. I watched her drop them from on top of a rock about 5 inches to the ground. Miraculously none of them broke and I collected them right away. I do see blood vessels in most of the eggs but why in the world would an egg itself keep getting so large?
No idea, very interesting, keep me posted
Thanks for the cool vid!
How moist do aquatic turtle eggs need to stay while they’re incubating? I have 2 eggs I rescued, keeping them in moist sand but don’t know whether to cover over/slightly bury. Their bottoms are moist and the tops white/harder.
Thanks!
Cliche answer… it depends. Eggs dry out fast, are they in a sealed container? Is a fan blowing air over them (not good). What species is the turtle? Usually for RES, Diamondback terrapins and most turtles humid is perfect but water itself will limit gas exchange as the embryo develops. High humidity and moist sand. I bury mines half way or just above of the egg looks like it’s drying out anytime during incubation. The last half of the incubation I try to not bother anything at all. Are u using incubator?
Thank you, that’s super helpful! I’ve moved them to a sealed container with vermiculite in a temp/humidity controlled styro cooler. A bit easier to control than the aquarium setting I had it in. Thanks again!
(Oh, and they’re cooters!)
Big ones :) love them
@@PursuingTheKing i’m having the hardest time regulating the humidity in my DYII Styrofoam cooler. How do you do it? I keep opening the top of the Styrofoam cooler a little bit when it gets too humid in there. They are in a Tupperware container within the cooler with water at the bottom and a heater.
Had sea turtle eggs which I threw in the garbage in a plastic bag. The hatched just fine in warm mexico.
how long till u can see blood vessels. mine have been laid for 14 days. eggs look good but dont see veins yet
I copied my reply to your other post here, thanks for being part of the Shell Squad.
"First sign is the egg shell is usually white after a few days if fertile. Start of small red lines can usually be seen around 2-3 weeks. After 4-6 weeks the pink blood vessel lines should be easily seen from a distance. If there are no blood vessels by 2 months there is a very good chance the eggs are not fertile unfortunately. Time will tell, good luck my friend."
@@turtleyshelltastic thank you so very much
my egg has this yellow viscous fluid on the outside, I assume they are leaks from inside, but there aren't any visible cracks. Is this a bad sign?
I would think so, hard to say without seeing it.
Hy...I got 2 turtles at my home of different species. And the female laid two eggs. One egg in march and the other egg in April. I took the eggs from water and put inside some sand and kept in my home. I don't know anything about turtle egg hatching. One of the eggs have water inside but the other doesn't have it. Does it mean the eggs are dead?
Hard to say without a picture. I think normally there is a group of eggs. If only one egg laid possibly the turtle needs a nesting area or a nesting box or they can become egg bound.
This is great, but could you please tell how far along the eggs are? Thanks!
This looks about 3 weeks :)
Thanks!
What’s the black line for and what do you do if the turtle keeps moving the egg
The black line is so I know which part of the egg was laid up. If I turn them over they will die.
Hi. Today my turtle laid eggs and it laid 2 but 1 was eaten and the other is safe but its slightly bend in way can it be fertilized..... and after the egg laid, will that time only ,will it show whether in future it will get fertile or not?
Plz do reply...