How do I know if my Leopard Gecko Eggs are Fertile? | Fertile, Infertile, Growing. ALL! (2021)
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- How do I know if my Leopard Gecko Eggs are Fertile? | Fertile, Infertile, Growing. ALL! (2021)
In this video, we cover every stage of growth your leopard gecko eggs will go through, from laid, all the way through the 8th week, or 60 days of incubation.
We discuss and demonstrate infertile eggs, fertile eggs, and growing embryos to SHOW you the difference and help you discover WHERE your eggs CURRENTLY are in their growth!
Join us inside for another gecko video containing more Leopard Gecko Knowledge to help you LEARN and GROW in your Leopard Gecko hobby PASSIONS! =D =D
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How do I know if my Leopard Gecko Eggs are Fertile? | Fertile, Infertile, Growing. ALL! (2021)
In this video, we cover every stage of growth your leopard gecko eggs will go through, from laid, all the way through the 8th week, or 60 days of incubation.
We discuss and demonstrate infertile eggs, fertile eggs, and growing embryos to SHOW you the difference and help you discover WHERE your eggs CURRENTLY are in their growth!
Join us inside for another gecko video containing more Leopard Gecko Knowledge to help you LEARN and GROW in your Leopard Gecko hobby PASSIONS! =D =D
Check out these other videos by Geeky Gecko Creations!
How long before they Hatch?
ruclips.net/video/RtX9YeJ7GSM/видео.html
Ovulations
ruclips.net/video/gk8gxeIM3y8/видео.html
Breeding
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If eggs start to turn a yellowish color after a few days after being laid during incubation, is this normal? They aren't a stark yellow, but a light white/yellowish color. I did candle them and found what looks like a small embryo in one of them, but the other one is harder to tell. Also, what do you do if the eggs are stuck together? I tried to pull them apart but they were already dried. Also, I feel as though I may have damaged some of the membrane of one of the eggs slightly trying to pull them apart. Could this affect the chances of the egg fertility? Is there a chance for this egg to still hatch? Also, is there a safe way to separate them to prevent any problems from occurring from one hatching before the other or any other problems related to eggs that are stuck together?
Legend ! 👍🏽 you help out a lot !
Thanks Esteban! :D :D
I love your channel! Great info and beautiful Gecko's ❤️
THANKS Rachel! Appreciate your kind words and feedback! :D
Great video, super helpful 👍😁 my female laid 2 eggs a few days ago not in her lay box I provided instead in the humid hide, they were stuck together & 1 was slightly squashed, they are both incubating 🤞🙏
Yeah I had 2 eggs stuck together once laid outside of the humid box, I put little drops of warm water on the stuck parts of the egg to gently get it to separate, you can just incubate them together as well, or try the warm water method but either way, you just dont want the eggs sitting in water too long so only use small drops if you ever try that method :) Good luck and TY for your comments! :D :D
Great rducation.Thank you
Thanks mama! :D :D
Thank you for the video! I take care of my dads gecko's when he is now on vacation. This evening I saw that there where eggs! He has an incubator and I did it the way he said it. But thanks to this video I am going to optimaze the set up tomorrow! 😊
That is awesome! Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment and watch our content! :D
@@GeekyGeckoCreations can I use damp paper towels in the meantime for the humidity? I will get proper substrate tomorrow but it's night where I live so going to the store is now not an option 😅
@@brittverbeek1848 yes u can! :D
My gecko is just ignoring the food I give it , anyone know what I should do she’s also been rly active in this time
dont wrory unless she gets VERY VERY skinny she might be going through ovulations durring breeding season they can loose appetite. Email me pics and ur concern if u have one
geekygeckocreations@gmail.com
I wish this video was out 5 years ago. I’ve had eggs that looked infertile but hatched. I got out the leopard gecko breeding game because I became overwhelmed and had way to many. I started giving away white and yellow tremper albinos, raptors and tangerines. My last hatchling was a white and yellow tremper albino sunglow raptor male. Never thought I would have got that morph, 1 out of 1000.
Wow yeah that is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing! :D
Really nice informative video. Hope u will get what u really deserve for ur utube channel soon.
Thanks Kevin, with comments and support from fellow gecko lovers like you I think it will over time! Thanks again brotha appreciate ur kind words! :D
The first 4 times i got eggs from my female she only layd 1 each time. And now the 2 last times i got 2 eggs each time. But ALL of them are infertile. Ive tryd to incubate them aswell but they start to rot in a week or so. This is from a 2year old female and first time breeder. I even sendt you a clip of my geckos breeding and they had a lock. Ive tryied to put to male in again but the female freaks out and fights him back. Any tipps/help? (Sorry for bad english)
Edit: also non of the eggs look like yours, all mine have not been hard but weak and loose.
Where did you get your incubator, and how much was it. Just wondering for future reference
Mantap om
I just recently found your channel and I love your content! I was just wondering... my leopard gecko he’s about 5 months, he had black eyes with a red slit. And I watched all your videos about genes. Someone said he’s a super hypo albino. Do you think he is because u seem like an expert. I have a video of him on my channel. It’s the only one I have up. If you could let me know if you think he is? Or what you think he is that would be awesome.
Hi! TY so much for ur kind words. I looked at the video. He does look like a super hypo albino, there are 3 lines of albino: Tremper(most common), Bell (2nd most), and Rainwater. There really isnt a way to tell which line he comes from if you dont know his parents genetic info, but if his eyes are all "black" my question to you would be, is it possible his eyes are all "ruby red" look at them in the light and see if the whole eye reflects a dark red, usually Albinos will not have black eyes, but they can be such a dark red it almost looks black. Let me know and we can continue to ID him from there. but he does look like a Super hypo albino, and if his eyes are all ruby red then hes also eclipse :) PS feel free to email me more photos of his eyes directly or message me on messenger :)
geekygeckocreations@gmail.com
My female Named Leo layed 3 eggs last month. Idk if that’s a good thing or not but sadly she layed her eggs 3days before my incubator arrived in the male
3 at the same time or 3 total for the month? Yeah im sorry sometimes we are caught off guard in this hobby but at least u r prepared now! :D
@@GeekyGeckoCreations at the same time. Cause she layed 2 and when I came back in the room from disposing them, there was a 3rd egg so she layed the 3rd one with in a 10min time span of me leaving the room. I watched her lay the first 2. But it got me worried that something was wrong with her cause I got a clutch of 3 instead of 2. Til I saw your video of you saying it’s a Miricale if they lay 3. But ya it happened last month
@@mikeyfulger7449 That is CRAZY! ive NEVER heard that, but always wondered if it would ever happen to me. Here is something ive notivced, sometimes a girl will ahve 2 eggs in her about to lay and ill see 1 or 2 more ovulations dopping into her stomach this tells me it's possible to have more than 2 ovulations happening at once even tho its not the norm at all, and your scenario just really proves that. Wow im really excited for that news, def record that and please if u got any more info on ur observations please shoot me a FB or IG message so i can know who you are and document ur findings! :D
My gecko layed an egg with a embryo on her first ever clutch but the egg was clear I tried to hatch it out but it started to dent within 2 days. Do you think I need a more humid incubator or do you think the egg was never supposed to be fertile?
Hello! This video was very informational and helped a lot! Although I still have a question. My Leopard Gecko has recently laid her first egg. It is definitely infertile, so what do I do with it? Do I still have to incubate it? She hasn't mated with another gecko either. Sorry this is kind of a dumb question. Thank you! :))
Hello, and thank you for your question! I incubate ALL eggs until the prove bad in the incubator. I do this because you never know, some reptiles are known to have fertile eggs even without a male present, this is extremely rare but has and can happen. If you do not care to try and hatch teh baby simply throw the eggs away, without humidty, and accurate temperatures the eggs all die after a couple days so you dont ahve to worry about a gecko hatching out from an egg you threw away you know? If you want to be sure you can take the egg outside and crush it but most people are ok with just throwing the egg away if they dont want it. Now in case you do want to incubate it, here is our video on incubation :) ruclips.net/video/X9cLUKwiYxg/видео.html
My yellow and white bell albino layed 2 soft eggs today. I put them in incubator fingers crossed they are fertile.
Yes! I always incubate everything! :D sometimes they turn out good :)
What happen in the egg? These egg are hatched?
Is there a way we could message you with some pictures and see what you think? I'm so confused on my eggs lol! I thought fertile but not 100% sure!
Absolutely, Instagram, messenger or email me at geekygeckocreations@gmail.com :D
Could you please tell me How long do I keep my male in with my Female? for breeding.
2hrs, 12hrs, 24hrs?
I wasn't going to stay and keep an eye on them, just put in the male and leave for the period of time you say, then Remove the male.
Many thanks in advance for your advice.
So as long as the female is ovulating they should pair within 5 minutes. If they dont, then i pull the male and retry a different day. Do you know how to check for ovulation? This is important because geckos usually only breeed during ovulation which happens once a year for the course of about 5 months. That is the window you have to breed your females. That being said, if you dont know how to check for ovulation, check out my ovulation video it will help alot! :) also if you just simply want to pair the male and female together, as long as they each have their own spots to retreat to, and the tank is 10 gallons or larger, you can leave the male in there for overnight I would say So drop him in at 8pm or so, and then remove him by the next morning. Of course you wont know if they bred until the female shows gravid eggs inside her tummy, so this method is hard to know when she is going to lay. Check out this video and tell me what you think and any other questions you have. :)
ruclips.net/video/gk8gxeIM3y8/видео.html
I have three eggs in my incubator right now; one was laid 4 weeks ago and I just collected two this morning from the same pairing (W&Y Mack Snow Tremper male to Tremper Sunglow with blood morph lines) and all are yellow. The thing is, the 4 week-old egg has not dented, and it looks really normal but when I candle it I don't see anything. I see that some of your recent eggs appeared yellow but then have visible growth by two weeks. When is a time to toss eggs out if they don't look good? Thank you!
I actually wait a LONG time and toss the eggs maybe 2 weeks after the clutch mate hatches. Or two weeks after what their DUE date was. So if their due date was 60 days later I would toss them on the 80th day or so if i still see no growth, this is probally overkill but i like to give life a chance! haha
How often should you open the egg tray to exchange new air if it has no holes ?
you never have to open them but i keep all my eggs from one girl in the same girl in one container so it gets opened about every 2 weeks just for the short time that we are adding her new clutches into that same container, does that make sense?
@@GeekyGeckoCreations Yess, Thank youu!
have you ever weighed an egg's progress?
So my leopard gecko layed eggs 3/4 days ago she was being kept with a male. I canceled them and they were fertile so I set them up in the incubator and everything but today I went to check on the temps and I noticed that their were dents in both eggs. What causes that? Will they still hatch?
Dents means that the eggs went bad, or the egg container is low on humidity, check out our incubation video, if you need to, it shows everything you need to knpw about incuabtion ruclips.net/video/X9cLUKwiYxg/видео.html
let me know if you have more questions as well glad to help :)
This is such a good video for leopard gecko breeders. I don't have a leopard gecko, but I do plan on getting a bearded dragon soon and I know from research that they are able to lay parthenogenic clutches, in other words, no contact with a male whatsoever in their life and then, for whatever reason, they will lay a clutch of fertile eggs. I am not planning to breed my bearded dragon, as I don't have the space for 2 adults + babies. At max, I have room for 1 adult + babies. But, if the bearded dragon I get is a female, I will check at these times, possibly more, for fertility before deciding to freeze them or not:
Freshly laid(although, I have heard that you can't tell when they are freshly laid whether or not they are fertile)
3-4 days after being laid
2 weeks after being laid
If I know that the egg was yellow at 3-4 days after being laid and it still looks completely yellow at 2 weeks, I will freeze and then dispose of it, as it's not going to hatch. If on the other hand, I see more and more red at 2 weeks, I'll keep it in there. Since I'd be heating my closet anyway by just a little bit to get my feeder insects into breeding mode(from like 70 degree or so room temperature to 80 degrees where the insects are going to be), I figured that I could just find where the temperature reaches 85 degrees and keep the eggs there in a heated room instead of bothering with an incubator. That covers temperature and then it would just be a matter of checking for humidity and embryonic development.
Since the only way I'd get multiple ovulations in a season is if either she is naturally a multiple ovulator(there are bearded dragons like that that ovulate 2 to 3 times a year regardless of breeding) or she was bred by her previous owner and retained sperm, hopefully, I only get 1 parthenogenic clutch in a year and not multiple if I get a parthenogenic clutch at all. Hopefully, I don't even have to deal with 2 or 3 ovulations in a year, but you know what? I am prepared for anything ovulation and incubation related, so if it happens, I will know what to do.
Very cool! Welcome to the breeding game and your projects sound fun! :D :D
1 question, are eggs still viable if they are soft, by that i mean because the females bedding is kind of moist and she buried them in it. The female is paired.
sometimes i have soft eggs that wind up good, so i incubate EVERYTHING and then over the next couple weeks if the eggs mold and go bad, then u can throw them away, does that help? :)
I have an egg that flipped on accident. The whole thing is dark and red so it’s hard to find which side is which, what can I do?
Dark side up, dark side is most likely the baby forming and so that goes facing up on top :)
@@GeekyGeckoCreations too late now. The baby died yesterday
@@nathanw3471 aw so sorry :( this can happen, even to me accidents, and jsut bad timing/luck, just learn what u can from the situation, grieve, and press forward, keep us updated on ur progress with ur collection! :)
@@GeekyGeckoCreations thank you. I will. The other eggs that hatched a bit ago seem to be doing fine
@@nathanw3471 oh ok thats good :)
One of my eggs was fully red and just collapsed at 50 days . Why did that happen? The other egg that was laid the same day is still okay its solid red inside at day 60 .
Do you know the humidity levels? Collapses can be caused by low humidity. How do you have ur incubation set up if you can explain to me or show pictures? TY. also the collapsed egg, did it have a gecko inside? Did you open it or is it still incubating?
Hi. Nice video man. Thanks a lot. Can you tell me te size of your containers in size and liters?
Babies is 6 qt. Adults is 12 qt. :)
When is your next video
Whats up brotha. Soon! Ive just been a little caught up with breeding, care, and now i have a Savnanah monitor i am treating for MBD so that is taking priority for the next day or 2 ;/ but stay tuned my friend i will be posting as much content as i can FOREVER :D Thanks for ur support! :D
@@GeekyGeckoCreations no problem 👍
@@GeekyGeckoCreations I bet that monitor is awesome what’s the name
@@rhysmyers6025 No name for now yet, its one of my Savannah monitors, i have 3 but i will have to name them all after this :)
@@rhysmyers6025 :D
Hey again! Sorry for all the questions. So my male and female were living together for a little bit. (I'm not a breeder or anything btw). But after researching a little more, I separated them because of the stress on my female's body. I moved the male out on 4/16. My female has continued laying what appear to be fertile eggs, even without him in there. Is this normal for the female to continue laying fertile eggs after the male is gone? They all still have the little red circle with the dot in the middle. Thank you so so much for all of your replies!
No problem Diggy and thank you for ur support. Yes totally normal. In reality a female only needs to mate with a male one time a year durring her breeding season then she does something called "retaining" the sperm, meaning she keeps it in her body for the full breeding season until she has fertilizaed and laid all her eggs! :D
@@GeekyGeckoCreations Thanks!
@@diggydo4954 NP :D
Exactly what I was looking for. Watching some videos on youtube I thought that if I "candle light" the eggs and they are yellow, they are infertile. I was pretty disappointed that my second clutch of eggs is infertile again ( I let them incubate anyway). I´m glad to see that I have to wait for the pink-ish colour to develop over couple of days/weeks.
Thats great Miro! Yes I ALWAYS incubate EVERYTHING for at least a couple weeks, until the egg molds, or once like 2 months has passed and the other egg hatched already ill throw that one away. But yeah always try to incubate first. Alot of embryos cannot be seen at the beginning stages, it doesnt mean they are not there, they might be there just hard to see, try to repair your female as well is she does lay infertile in hopes that you get more sperm in her :)
@@GeekyGeckoCreations My other female should be laying eggs very soon, she looks like she might burst soon :D I will see if these will be fertile (I will check them after a week or so) and if they are not, I will repair her again. I´m hoping for some super giants from her.
@@MrBabisss7 oh nice! Keep us updated! 😁😁🦎🦎
Oh my, my female finally lay her eggs after 2 months. Crazy right. I have a friend that told me his longest record is 4 months after mating.
same mine was 5 months and this year i just had a gecko pass away egg bound after 3 months :(
@@GeekyGeckoCreations that is so sad. My incubator was delayed due to Covid restriction at my place. I have no choice but to incubate the egg with room temperature. Hopefully everything goes well. Manage to find a place with temperature between 27 to 29 celcius and humidity around 60 to 70. I find it a bit hard on humidity. As I need to on my aircon to bring the temperature within that range but the air condition kill the humidity
@@joechew1412 To hold in humidity use an air tight plastic container. We have something called "press n seal" out here, it sticks to the top and holds in ALL moisture for the durration of teh egg incubating, also u can use small plastic containers that shut compeltely to keep the eggs humid :) hope that helps and u can figure something out, but yes room temp is fine if u can find an air tight container to seal the humidity in! :D
My gecko laid 3 clutches and all but one was not collapse:(
3 clutches over 2 months? Did you ever see embryos? Are you sure they were fertile, and how did you set them up in the incubator? Sorry for ur loss too ;/
@@GeekyGeckoCreations no bout 3 month period. One looked fertile. I have the digital zoomed incubator, closed all the holes and put water on bottom and covered with the foam. Had closed water bottles filled with water laying inside to maintain temperature. Had a digital thermometer on the inside on top of plastic container. The container had hatch rite and an egg holder. Closed container with a few holes for breathing
@@trisha2286 and the container had water in it or no because hatch right doesnt require water correct? Are you sure ur male and female bred?
usually denting means infertile OR too dry. I dont use any holes in my egg containers when in incubator. U did a good job having an thermometer on top of the container, what temps were u incubating as well? PS - sometimes girls jsut lay bad eggs and its not ur fault, but i want to help you diagnose this to see if impovmentes could be made
@@GeekyGeckoCreations I'm pretty sure they locked on two separate ocassions. Temp were 79-80 range. I have a Male and female black nights that Ive only paired with each other. It's the female's first season (probably a factor?)
Good vid thank you lad
THANK YOU! :D
Very educational!
Thanks hunny bunny bear! ;P
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