Eggs

jon_without_h · 02-01-05, 11:23 AM

Hey all
I was wondering what temperature you have to keep eggs at when you are inqubating. I heard you only need room temperature but i didnt knwo if that was true or not. And if you keep the eggs at a higher heat then would they hatch faster? I want to pick up one fo the deep red crested geckos at the toronto repitl show in febuary and then i want to breed them to try and get some more. Do you know if crested geckos are more expensive when they are the different morphs?

Thanks a bunch

Jon

Buddha · 02-01-05, 11:28 AM

I was told around 80 but Im still a noob

peterm15 · 02-01-05, 11:30 AM

i cant answer anything else but do a google search for breeding cresties and itll tell ya..

and yes morphs are quite a bit more expensive..

HeatherRose · 02-01-05, 11:41 AM

The nicer they are, the more they'll go for... in my experience plainer ones (they're still nice though!) go for about $80 while fires and such go for $120 - $140 or more...that's just for hatchlings though.

I incubate mine at about 79-80 degrees and they usually hatch in 60 days or less.

jon_without_h · 02-01-05, 11:52 AM

thats awsome... so you will probably be seeing me posting some morphs around summer time then. Thanks

little_dragon_ · 02-01-05, 01:17 PM

78-80 is a good temp for nice and big
hatchlings. At 82-85 they will most likely be male and much smaller hatching at around 55 days.
I'm not exactly sure if these are correct sex dependent temps but I think most geckos incubated at lower temps are females.
However I purchased 2 crested geckos incubated at 76 for 74 days and they both turned out male so I guess it's a gamble!

Deep Reds are hard to come by and I don't think you'll find one less then 150.

DragnDrop · 02-01-05, 02:01 PM

My crestie eggs stay around 68F, absolutely no higher than 72F. They can easily take 3 months or more to hatch, but they are big babies, not a drop of yolk left, they've made use of it all. They hatch healthy and ready to tackle the world. I've seen some hatch from eggs kept around 80-83F which are way smaller than what mine are. They also have lots of yolk left in the shell, so chances are they hatched a bit too early due to the heat. The Rhac book by de Vosjoli, Fast & Repashy mentions the 'warmer' eggs hatch out smaller geckos, and males can be slow to develop their external parts. I've also read that the warmer hatchlings that end up female don't breed well at first, something akin to the hot leopard females.

CDN-Cresties · 02-01-05, 06:59 PM

My eggs are kept between 73-77 degrees. They usually hatch between 72-78 days.

little_dragon_ · 02-01-05, 08:02 PM

My Air temps fluctuate between 74-80,
I just had two cresteds hatch out today at 70 days. I'm not to sure what the temp of the vermiculite is I bury the eggs half way. I will check the temp tonight.

Manitoban Herps · 02-02-05, 01:41 PM

Your better off having the egg stay at room temperature. I don't think it's worth trying to give the eggs more heat to make them hatch faster, it's just to risky and you would get perfect babies if you kept them cooler but it would take a month longer

jon_without_h · 02-02-05, 02:12 PM

Yeah i am not in that big of a rush to start having little ones running around/ I still have to go out and buy my male and female and breed them together. So it will be a couple months before i even have the eggs. Do i have to do anything to take care of the eggs when i get them? Like do they have to be kept seperate from the parents or can i leave the eggs in with them?

concept3 · 02-02-05, 05:20 PM

Agreed with dragndrop here, I use an hovabator so I keep mine at a constant 70, but low seventies will usually give you bigger healthier offspring/

little_dragon_ · 02-02-05, 08:18 PM

I disagree with the claim that a crested gecko incubated at 70 is healthier then those incubated at 74-80. My hatchlings have never left an unabsorbed egg sack behind and have all been healthy with a fast growth rate at the above temps.
Crested gecko hatchlings incubated at 70 degrees are bigger there's no doubt in that but I believe it's just prolonging their hatch date. Naturally a baby is not going to stop growing.
70 is a very low temp and it doesn't guarantee females. I've puchased geckos incubated at 70 thinking I would get females but I ended up with 2 males.

Allen Repashy recommends 77-81.

concept3 · 02-02-05, 09:43 PM

their has been no proof on temp sexing cresties as of yet.