Breeding season's started :)

[DragnDrop]

While doing the feeding rounds tonight, I noticed one of the females digging in the laying box. So just for the fun of it, I checked in all the female enclosures .... and ended up with 10 clutches of eggs!! I hadn't even heard or noticed any of them digging other than the patternless albinos. I guess that means it's breeding time :)

[Clownfishie]

Woohoo, congrats Hilde! :D I just put my males in with the girls on the weekend, so hopefully things will be getting crazy over here soon too!

[Blazin]

Hey that rocks! Good to hear someone has some eggs. Keep us posted.

[drewlowe]

These guys and gals are soooo easy to breed and half the time you don't even notice until there are eggs.

My girls did the same thing to me last year. One was digging so i decieded when she was finished i would get the eggs. Only to find out i had 5 good clutches all right next to each other. That was a great surprise.

congrats can't wait to see the baby pics.

Jamie

[DragnDrop]

I'm tickled pink - two more clutches yeterday. :)

So far there are 8 eggs from my PA male x double het PA females, so I just might have some PAs growing in the incubator. The rest of the eggs are from my carrot-tails and baldy tangs that I got from Urban Gecko last year.
I'm really getting impatient now, and it's at least another month to go. Some of the eggs I found were probably 2-3 weeks old already, and there's that one clutch that Santa brought on Christmas morning.

:)

[matt_winter]

Wow that is very good news!! Congradulations, and i hope to see some pictures in the near future of the hatchlings.

[TheRedDragon]

Congratulations! Good luck with all those eggs! :)

[OhioHerper]

i was just wondering about breeding leos.
How do u sex a young gecko still with the stripes?
What kind of breeding set up would i need?
Can i breed a albino with and regular colored leo? What is the chance for albino hatchlings.
How large do they ahve to be before they breed?
And last but least how do i incubate the eggs and care for the hatchlings?
thanks

[PaulBar]

Breeding already? The days haven't even started to lengthen significantly yet. Are you turning up the daylight light cycle already? Or the heat from infrared bulbs at night? Or are they just starting to breed on their own? After all, here in Toronto its still the dead of winter. I would think March would be better to start them off. But maybe I am wrong. Let me know.

Paul

[PaulBar]

Ohio Herper.

Buy a book. Its better than having us write one for you.

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[KelliH]

Congrats Hilde! My breeding season always starts really early too. I have a ton of eggs incubating and have already hatched 6 babies! I'll keep my fingers crossed on your patternless albino project eggs!

[DragnDrop]

Originally posted by PaulBar
Breeding already? The days haven't even started to lengthen significantly yet. Are you turning up the daylight light cycle already? Or the heat from infrared bulbs at night? Or are they just starting to breed on their own? After all, here in Toronto its still the dead of winter. I would think March would be better to start them off. But maybe I am wrong. Let me know.

Paul

My leos get only room natural light, no bulbs (their heat is with UTH's). I've always had them start around this time of year, it's all their own doing, no manipulating on my part. The thing is I usually notice some digging as my first clue to check for eggs. This year I didn't hear or see any of the girls digging until the incident I mentioned in the first post. The others must have been quiet or did it in the dead of night while I was sleeping (just to throw me off, I guess :) ) The last eggs of the season here are usually early to mid May (at a clutch roughly every 2 weeks), though a newbie female might stretch it to July.

Breeding in captivity doesn't depend as much on outside weather as it has to in nature. As long as the captives are getting all they need, they time it their own way. My females were done laying around May or June last year, spend all summer pigging out fattening up again, rested up from around early September to early December, at which time they started eating me out of house and home :) Eggs by New Years isn't that far out of whack on that schedule.

Like I said, I never induce breeding, they decide, though I do keep the males in the groups fulltime as long as they all get along (and I've only had one male ever that had to be removed, the other groupings worked fine all year).

[PaulBar]

Thanks for your reply. I can understand breeders in Texas due to their southern climate would have an earlier breeding season, start but I was under the impression that here in Toronto breeding would start in Mar and go to July.

I guess though we are already in Feb so time flys I guess.

I am going to start lengthening their daylight light cycles gradually and give them some night heat and lets see what happens.

Thanks for your advice.

Paul

[Wilma]

its still winter for my girls, I only have three girls of breeding age but I am looking forward to putting them with my super hypo carrottail male from urban gecko for a few cuties this year :D

Hilde, expecting anything really fun this year? :D

[mikem]

yipee! caught mine in the act just a couple minutes ago! this is my first season breeding, and i'm excited. all i did was seperate them for about a month, then put them back together with a heat lamp, and there you go. i have my male in with 4 females, so i'm going to be over run with geckos! but that's okay, i'm prepared.