My turtle's hatching! update- He's hatched!
 

just thought I drop a line, my baby turtle Steve is in hatching process, it'll take a few days. Yesterday a piece of shell broke and this morning a claw ruptured the membrane inside that he's enclosed in.
Once he breaks free, or at least sticks out his face, I'll post a piccie.

Here's the latest:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...y/100_1456.jpg

he's so tiny...and so colorful like mom and dad are.

oh! how exciting!

I remember the first time one of the gecko eggs i had hatched...it's so amazing to watch them work their way out :D

congratulations

Yay!! *Clapping* :D

Horray for lil' Stevie! *waves about a flag* Good to know that your lil' turtle is coming out into the outside world. I just want to say...no, I can't, it's too horrible. Oh, may as well.

At least he is finally braking out of his shell :evilgrin: :P I'm sure those pictures of yours will be amazing to look at once you take them :)

Don't you mean he's *sings* Coming out of his shell.... :lol:

Anyways... Yay for the hatching of the hatchlings! (why can't baby turtles have fancy names? :P )

im bumpin this cause i posted a new piccie on the first post. he's half out of the egg!

OMG!! Too cute!! :D

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! :tlove: he's adorable!!!

and a couple of your other eggs look pretty close too...least from what I can see

nah, those eggs haven't completley gone opaque yet, they're pretty early still but the embryos are there and react to light.

Steve's got a foot out! He's got beautiful eyes too. He's strong and working on the shell pretty well and it looks like the yolks gone.
In the words of his name sake, WOOOOHOOO!!!!

ooh

Turtle eggs are different than gecko eggs, then. when my gecko eggs used to look similar to what I see in that picture i usually had a baby the next day :D

Wow...that must be so exciting... I take it you've done this before so I'm sure you'll take great care of the babies...congrats and keep posting pics!!:)

Awww, Buslady! I want him! He's adorable. Congradulations.

Nope, Steve's my first hatchling reptile, not just my first hatchling turtle. I've never incubated anything. I've been trying to icubate Jessie's eggs for 3 years now, since her and Donnie been at it, and nothing until now has finally hatched. I used no fancy incubator, just a deli cup and a warm room.

you can get a size perspective with this shot:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...y/100_1460.jpg

he's tiny!

Oh my god, he's a lil' midget! And I mean that in a good way ^_^ He looks so cwte! Many thanks for the pictures, and many more congrats on your new addition to the family :)

aaannnd another photo, i entered this for a calender contest on a turtle forum

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...babysteve4.jpg

Aw, he's so cute. :) Congrats on your first baby turtle.

Here he is, in his colorful glory...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...y/100_1466.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...y/100_1467.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...y/100_1469.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...y/100_1471.jpg

Awwwwww... lil Steve is so cute. Do we know if it's a Steve or a Stevie? I love it, Buslady. Congrats!

I won't know until he's about a year old; but...this species is TDS - temperature determined sex; going by the lower temps he should be a boy. AND...if you look close, one side has one more scute ... 5 instead of 4.

Mm, I wondered about that; how soon you could tell. I so want a little turtle of my own, I think they are adorable and facinating as all get out!

I have had several turtles in my life...

One red-headed slider that I had when I was 9...we had it for 13 years in an aquarium. Then we moved it to our pond. Sometimes it got out and went on the road...we always had to rescue it.

We rescued a snapping turtle from the highway and put it in our pond.

Then I had a Painted turtle and a Western Box Turtle in my apartment...they were hard to keep because apparently I the cold air got them even though it was warm in my apartment.

2 years ago, I rescued a 30 year old turtle from the road and carried it home. It was placed in the pond with the others...it has not left.

So congrats on your new addition to your family.