How to deal with turtle eggs

After the black turtle lays eggs, first determine whether they are fertilized. Unfertilized turtle eggs can be discarded directly. If fertilization is successful, prepare fish tanks, heating rods, sterilized sand and other tools to prepare for hatching turtle eggs. The water temperature suitable for black turtle eggs to hatch is between 28 and 32 degrees, and the humidity is between 80 and 90%. The hatching time is generally around two months.

How to Dispose of Black Turtle Eggs

Black Turtle Eggs How to deal with

Not all black turtle eggs can hatch into small black turtles, but the condition must be that they have been successfully fertilized. It is impossible to tell whether a newly laid turtle egg is fertilized or not. In the next 24 to 72 hours, check whether there are white spots inside the turtle egg. If there are white spots inside, it is a fertilized egg, otherwise it is not.

How to deal with black turtle eggs

For successfully fertilized black turtle eggs, you need to prepare a half-meter-long fish tank and place it in a well-lit place such as a balcony. Place a heating rod at the bottom of the fish tank, and then pour five centimeters of water into it. After sterilizing the sand, pour clean water about three centimeters deep.

How to deal with black turtle eggs

Then bury the turtle eggs, the depth is not required. After burying it, turn on the heating rod, raise the temperature to 28 to 32 degrees, and wait patiently for the turtle eggs to hatch. For different types of black turtles, the hatching time of turtle eggs will vary, generally around two months.

How to deal with black turtle eggs

During the incubation period, turtle eggs cannot be flipped casually, and human intervention should be minimized. The turtle owner needs to do one thing to ensure that the temperature is stable and appropriate, and the other is to maintain the ambient humidity at 80~ 90%, so the turtle eggs have a higher chance of success in hatching. As for unfertilized turtle eggs, they can be discarded directly.

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