[Graham_s]

After being too disorganised in previous seasons to make a notes of incubation methods, I have managed to make a fairly detailed set of notes this year.

If anyone has made notes with the following information then I'd be very interested to see them:

- Species
- Date that eggs were laid
- Hatch date
- Calculated incubation duration
- Sex of hatchlings (where possible)
- Incubation temperature range (day & night temps)
- Incubation method
- % Humidity (if possible)
- any other interesting observations

The notes that I have made this season are more or less along these lines, and it has been interesting to see patterns occuring as the season has gone on.

If you have some data I could use, then I'd greatly appreciate it! Either post it in this thread, PM me or email me, whatever is easiest!

If I can gather enough information, I want to compile it all into a single spreadsheet and study the results.


EDIT: If you are not from the UK or North America, please be specific when mentioning dates, as I don't want to make massive errors!
Just for clarity (at the risk of stating the obvious...), North America write: MM/DD/YYYY, in the UK we write: DD/MM/YYYY
If you are from North America or the UK, I will assume that your dates are written as demonstrated above unless otherwise stated.

[pakinjak]

I might have something around the end of November, since my first clutch is due to hatch around there, but please do share if you get a good amount of data.

[Graham_s]

I certainly will share it if I can get a useful amount of data.
If that turns out to be the case, then maybe I can persuade Luis to put it on the UIC

[BonnieLorraine]

I've got three clutches in the incubator now, I'll let you know the data for mine as well when they hatch.

[Graham_s]

Thanks I look forward to your contributions.

It will be interesting to see if similar methods and conditions produce similar results with numerous breeders.

[uroplatus99]

Uroplatus guentheri
Laid 4-23-2011
Hatched 8-14-2011
Took 113 days for both eggs in the clutch
Can't see sex
Temps where around 70-72 with swings plus and minus 2 degrees F
Incubated over moist perlite in dry bottle caps filled with perlite in a deli cup, in a Hovabator
100% humidity if I had to guess in the deli cup!


Uroplatus guentheri
Laid 6-4-2011
Hatched 10-10-2011 and 10-12-2011
Took 128 days for one and 130 for the other
Can't see sex
Temps where around 70-72 with swings plus and minus 2 degrees F
Incubated over moist perlite in dry bottle caps filled with perlite in a deli cup, in a Hovabator
100% humidity if I had to guess in the deli cup!


Uroplatus guentheri
Laid 7-12-2011
Hatched 11-9-2011 and 11-10-2011
Took 120 days for one and 121 for the other
Can't see sex
Temps where around 68-72 with swings plus and minus 2 degrees F (Getting colder here so the basement is getting down to about 65*, incubator got as low as 66* at one time)
Incubated over moist perlite in dry bottle caps filled with perlite in a deli cup, in a Hovabator
100% humidity if I had to guess in the deli cup!

[Graham_s]

Thanks Silas
Any one else?

It would be particularly useful to have some more information for U. sikorae, U. guentheri and U. finiavana.

[miguel camacho!]

Going on 120+ days on one of the undescribed species of Uroplatus (cf henkeli?), I hope I don't have much more than a month to go, but I'm seeing some pretty clear silhouettes in the first clutch. Temps were kept around 70-72F during the daytime in the summer, down to 68 overnight, now getting more fluctuation and probably slightly warmer temps (easier for me to monitor the cooling but not the wintertime heating situation...wall-mounted heating unit).

[rhacoboy]

- Species - U. S. Sikorae
- Date that eggs were laid - 7/9/2011
- Hatch date - 10/16/2011
- Calculated incubation duration - 76 DAYS
- Sex of hatchlings (where possible) - I believe they are a pair, not 100% sure.
- Incubation temperature range (day & night temps) - 68-72 F
- Incubation method - Eggs directly on dry superhatch, dry superhatch was placed in container with damp/saturated spaghnum moss. Placed in large container with two small holes.
- % Humidity (if possible) - 80%

Hopefully I can share some Pietschmanni information with you guys very soon.
All that I have for Pietschmanni right now is I had one egg pop open at 6 1/2 months and the animal died inside the egg before it fully emerged.

[Graham_s]

Great, thanks for the data! I have noted it all down.

I hope you have some hatchlings from those eggs soon, Mike!