[monremonda]

A while back I posted about finding a C. irianjayaensis egg, well this last Thursday it hatched! Below are some pictures I took this morning. I have two more eggs so hopefully in another month or so I will have two more! I could not believe the size when it hatched, it is at least 5 inches long, and with all the spunk and personality I have come to expect from the adults.

[Pierre]

Congratulations,it looks perfect!

did you do something special with the adults except taking good care of them;housing and feeding them well?
any special tips to induce breeding?

Pierre

[alessio]

great job Mike!

How do you incubate your eggs?

[sikorae]

Oh congratulations, it looks perfect.

[monremonda]

I don't think that I did anything special to get them to breed. I live in So. Cal so I keep them in my reptile room at room temps year round, so they get only a mild seasonal temp change. I have had them together in the same set up for a little over three years, and I tend to leave them alone except for feeding and cleaning. I keep them on ecoearth with lots of hides and fake plants so they feel secure and I make sure that the substrate is very moist year round. They will drink standing water so I always have a dish in there for them. I give them live pinkie mice every once in a while when I have extra, sometimes they eat them and sometimes they don't. Thats about it, this is the first year I got eggs from them, and I got three from the one female and none from the other.


As for incubation, I incubated the eggs in a hovabator at 77F in moist vermiculite, pretty much the same as a crested gecko except that it took like 5 months.

Thanks

[Bowfinger]

NICE! I live in SoCal too and mine look awesome and fat as hell but no good eggs yet for me. Do you have air in your house of any type, as your room temperature might be different than mine. If you get the heat spells and cooling without stabalizing your room temperature with ac or heat then that might be the trick? Do you have highs and lows by chance?
About the mice, I did receive a bad set of eggs after feeding mice so that might be a factor getting the extra nutrition.

[monremonda]

I do have AC and heat. I use the AC to make sure the temps in the house never get above 80 and the heat makes sure that I never get below the high sixties, although I almost never use the heat. During the winter the house stays in the mid 70s daytime and high 60s low 70s nighttime. During the summer the house is high 70s and occasionally very low 80s daytime and mid to low 70s nighttime. I hope that helps.

As for the pinks, I am not even sure which ones ate them, because unlike crickets them would not eat them in front of me, so it could even have been the male or the other female doing that, who knows.

[jackdaniel's]

Congratulations!Could you post pic of the parents?

[monremonda]

here are the parents:

Mom:


Dad:

[WildEyeReptiles]

Anyone care to post weights of their adults? I'm curious to see how they all compare.