please help urgently!!!!!!!!

[lauraberwick]

my mother has recently purchased a bearded dragon and to our amazment tonight she has laid 15 eggs after advice from a reptile shop we have upturned a small plastic box and filled it with sand cuttin a hole in the side for her to crawl in shes crawled in and laid her eggs but now were stuck on what to do as neither of us get paid for another few weeks so is there any advice on how to save the eggs without going out to buy an incubator or isit just not worth trying?

[toastie]

where are you? if you live near me u can use my incubator

[lauraberwick]

unfortunatly nowere near u as we live in stoke-on-trent thanks for the generous offer

[tomb87]

i got an incubator but i live in manchester so thats a fair distance aswell.

[tomb87]

go on mybeardeddragondragons.co.uk/breeding it tells you how to make an incubator from a polythene box

[Paul B]

If you have an airing cupboard you can try putting them in there about 18" from the cylinder.
As a newbie i reared my first batch 100% in the same way. Temp around 86f
In an air tight tupperware box in a damp substrate or damp toilet roll for tonight / tomorrow.
Your local reptile shop is sure to have an incubator that is probably empty at the moment. (I know mine is) Try them tomorrow.

P

[lauraberwick]

thanks for the advice will tell my mum put em into the airin cupboard and go to the pet shop tomor

[ginnerone]

Not to put a downer on things but do you realise how much it will cost once these little munchers have hatched IE food, seperate viv's when they out grow eachother/bully smaller ones ETC and then there is the problem of re-homing them? it aint cheap infact it's very expensive, sorry if i'm preaching to the converted but you don't have a signature so i were'nt sure if your aware of the cost and time this will take

[spudsgirl]

I am inclinned to agree with ginnerone as said it is costly to hatch eggs and keep the hatchlings till such time they can be sold and more so when you have no experience in doing this. The most humane way of dealing with an unwanted clutch is to put them in the freezer hun. Sadly sometimes the cost far outways the gain and the time you will have to put into it.

I am sorry hun for popping on the thread and telling you such things but if you live with your parents hun and do not get paid for a few weeks then I would seriously suggest freezing them. They might not last the night in the airing cudboard and the eggs should not be turned or moved at all if possible you will prob find they will go a yellow colour and stick together.

[jools]

Fraid I have to agree with ginnerone and spudsgirl. The market is flooded with beardies and it is almost impossible to even GIVE them away at the moment. Sorry to put such a downer on your eggciting news.