Eggs of 08!

Found my first G. spengleri egg of the season on April 30th. The egg was already banded so it might have been a couple days old. So far it looks good and I am incubating it at room temperature.

On the same night, after I discovered the spengleri egg, I looked in the incubator and noticed two of my Eastern box turtle eggs were cracked. I thought they must have dried out since I already gave up on them ever hatching. After further review, tiny little eyes were looking back at me from the eggs! These eggs were laid in water, during semi-hibernation and never looked fertile. Some started molding and I pretty much just left them in the incubator out of laziness. Surprise, surprise! This just shows that you should never give up on eggs until they go bad. There are two more eggs left...so we will see what happens! I'll try to post pics of the new babies. This is my first time hatchling this species!