[kenya_1977]

The older female elok that Marcus and I brought back from Malaysia laid her eggs in transit on 4-9-06. The first one just hatched today 9-8-06. Temperatures have been wide ranging from 64 to 78. The last few months they've been in the mid 70s range, only the first month in the 60s. This week I increased the medium moisture to hopefully spur hatching. Looks like it worked.




The first of the two eggs have hatched out perfectly. I look forward to the second either later today or tomorrow.

It's great to see so many successful hatchings of these guys.

[Afelinus]

Wow,considering that those eggs were laid in transit,and all that they went through,GREAT JOB.Look very robust and well formed.

[Hazpat]

wow beautiful colors

[Bowfinger]

Very nice babies...looks like eloks hold the cyrtodactylus trait of having amazingly vivid babies.
That incubation time wow, looks like temps are playing somewhat of a role in time?

[Palex134]

gorgeous! Elok are amazing! The hatchling looks like a L. lugubris adult, with a P. androyensis hatchling, along with an R. chahoua!

[kenya_1977]

I might have been able to have hatched them a bit sooner had I moistened the vermiculite earlier.. but I definitely think that a flux room temp incubation will lead to a much longer incubation time, and I'm more than happy to wait on them. I would feel uneasy about one that hatched in less than 3 months. I looked at Leah's posts and felt that this was appropriate.

They are very boldly colored hatchlings. They do not really differ that much from the adults.

Thanks guys.
C

[kenya_1977]

The second one hatched out just as perfect as the first yesterday. I didn't take a shot of it because it still had it's shed.

[Reptiluvr]

Hatchling elok are quite unusual and beautiful. 5 months time to hatch? Wow. I get anxious with 60-90 day hatch rates. 5 months might put me in a looney bin.

[kenya_1977]

I thought waiting this long for hatchlings would drive me crazy too, but I've found that the time flies by and I'm just happy to see a healthy gecko. I've seen my share of stuff hatching too soon, and they just aren't as healthy.

These guys hatching out reminds me that it's been 5 months since I was in Malaysia.. it doesn't seem that long.

[oscar]

congrats! great to see more species being hatched successfully.

Scott