Hi everyone,I am super new to this. I bought my son his first gecko pet today from the pet store. The lady told me they were trying to breed a male and female, but assured me that she wasn‘t pregnant. She didn‘t look pregnant so we bought her , brought her home then 4 hours later she laid 2 eggs!What do I do she is in a temporary tank, and we picked up a 20 gallon tonight. Do I move her and the eggs into the new tank or keep them where they are? I have a lamp over the top and a heating pad right under the eggs. The gecko cleared out the coconut dirt and laid her eggs on the glass.I have no idea what to do? I noticed she smashed her eggs overnight but when I held them up to the light I saw veins and the eggs are hard to the touch.
Hold the egg warm and see if it hatches? You could have a mini-miracle on your fingers :) maintain her heat, contemporary food, and water, and openings for contemporary air (however now not enough to get out) to hold her from being harassed.
It depends on the type of gecko. And if you have moved them then it's not great because reptile eggs should be kept still to keep the air bubble in the right place. If they have been smashed then they most definitely won't hatch.
Move her to the 20-gallon cage. If you have not *flipped over* the eggs, they should probably be OK. Put them in damp vermiculite or the like (make sure to keep them the same way up), and either read up on incubating geckos, or take them to a pet store that can incubate them for you. You can keep them in the cage with their mother, though I'd advise putting them in a container (with holes in the lid) sturdy enough that she can't disturb them. Leopard geckos aren't exactly great parents, so you want to keep them separate from her, or she might kill them (accidentally, or by eating them after they hatch). Or, you can leave them in the temporary cage, if you have a heat source for that. In your case, I'd advise taking the eggs back to the pet store you got the gecko from (try to keep them warm, about 80-85 degrees) and let *them* deal with incubation. Call, first, though, to make sure they do that. She may lay eggs again in the near future. Make sure she gets *lots* of calcium (put a dish of calcium powder in her cage). Also, you really want a non-particulate substrate like paper towel or slate for a leopard gecko's cage, though you need something to hold moisture in the humid hide.
