My leopard gecko laid eggs about 3 weeks ago. The 1 egg is fertile and the other egg is infertile, the problem with this is the fact that the eggs are stuck together. Is there any way I can take the infertile egg off of the fertile one without hurting it? Thanks for any help.

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My kids:

1.0 box turtle
0.1 red foot tortoise
1.0 red eared slider
5.5 bearded dragons
2.8.6 leopard geckos
2.2 cats
1.0 husband
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Mackzbaby, I have been told that if you are certain the one egg is infertile, you could cut it open and remove the contents so that it doesn't mold. Then use scissors to cut off as much of the old egg as possible. Thats just a suggestion.

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MARSHA

:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

Don't touch or try to remove the infertile egg, leave it where it is, it will cause no harm to the good egg. Even if it gets mouldy it will not cause any harm to the other egg and you could cause more harm by moving it.

I prefer to have the eggs separate and then you can remove the bad eggs, however, sometimes that isn't possible so they have to be incubated as a clump. The bad eggs don't smell too good, and don't look very nice, and mould can develop all around it, but safer just to leave it there, unless you can pull it off very gently and easily without having to put pressure on it or pull too hard and disturb the other egg.

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Hello,

I would go with what Marsha said. (I have done that before.) Slice the bad egg open, remove the embryonic fluids, and then snip off some of the old egg. Some will remain, but will shrivel up. I agree with Rachel that you don't want to force the eggs apart. That will damage the good egg.