Premature baby in normal clutch?

Thank you for more info.

I appreciate you are in a predicament regarding the geckos being separated. Although I have no idea what an entertainment aquarium is. Sounds to me like a business, if this is the case and it is the business that is not caring for the geckos and eggs - this is in most countries a violation and can lead to extremely SEVERE consiquences for the business. Keeping male and female geckos together all year round is unsafe, esp one on one ratio.

Obviously if it a co-workers pet then not much can be done.

Do you happen to know the age and weight of the parents to these babies. I ask because the dad in the pic looks too small to be breeding, I know sometimes pics can be misleading. But given you said one female is laying tiny eggs, might be an indicator that she is not ready to breed due to low weight.

As much as I truly admire you trying to help and taking the eggs in. You are only enabling this behaviour to continue, resulting in a lot more issues further down the line.

Your colleague / work must face the consiquences sooner rather than later. There are far too many healthy Cresties on the market right now and selling/moving on potentially unhealthy Cresties is a risk as you don’t know they won’t be bred.

It is a violation, in most places, to continuously breed reptiles without consideration of their safety, just as it is for dogs & cats. I’d suggest you read up on your local laws and report the mistreatment of these reptiles before it is too late for them.

As for morphs/traits, we’d really need closer and fired up pics to say for sure, but you have a mix of partial Pinstripes, pin dash, low Harlequins, Dal spots and bicolours

The seperate baby is certainly a spirited creature :grin: looks to be a harlequin, partial pinstripe with portholes.

I can try to mark which one is which but I’m heading out now so would need to do later sorry. But as said fired up pics would be better

Sorry if my opinion comes across strong. I’m just very passionate about reptiles