With more than one keeper in the co-op, I am attempting another incubation method.

The day/night temperature variation will be used by Melody, Brad and Harold.

I will incubate eggs at a steady, incubator maintained 87º F - 88º F day and night temperature.

Below is the first cepediana offspring. One week old. #A37, oviposition 3/27/2007, hatchdate 5/7/2007 days incubating 42 days, Incubated at +-87º day and NO night temperature change.

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Pre-summer.
Melody's male is successfully producing eggs with his females.

Harold's female laid dud eggs. She was young and it may be females need to be older to breed.

I have multiple eggs and are due to start hatching in June.

Several people have inquired about joining the co-op. At this point, the co-op is closed which means that only current keepers are participating, agree to maintain complete records, return/replace loaned animals, trade...

The co-op identified another US keeper with breeding aged P. cepediana females. The keeper, Melody, had female cepediana purchased from me a few years ago and had one wild caught female P. cepediana. She was loaned a male P. cepediana from the 2005 offspring.

Harold picked up a female P. cepediana from the program last fall. This year he was loaned on of the mature P. cepediana males from the c-op.

Brad, the other original co-op keeper, now has a male (which replaces...

In 2006, I was lucky enough to be contacted by Brad who had a lone male P. cepediana of breeding age. From my previous years breeding P. cepediana, I had only two female cepediana left. The co-op started with 1:2 animals.

The first year total production was 14 eggs. Surviving juveniles (into their first year) was eight.

The adults prove to be delicate in captivity but the hatchlings are so very sensitive that I don't even count them until as juveniles until reach...

Since summer 2005, two U.S. keepers with Phelsuma cepediana agreed to start a cooperative breeding program.

Co-op goals are :
Increase the number of captive bred Phelsuma cepediana in the U.S.,
Establish husbandry requirements needed to keep this sensitive and delicate species alive, and
Determine incubation methods that result in a good ratio of males to females.

Last known ratio in the US by Christenson: 1 male for 25 females.

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