[rdj52785]

My uroplatus, though this will be my first year trying to breed commonly reach 60 F at night. I try to keep them from 65-72 at night, but this is often difficult. I use a space heater and probably need to get a second in the reptile room, but I've noticed no ill effect what so ever, and if anything, I think the drop in temps for winter is so important, that I'd rather go lower than risk to small a drop. Though I ould think the light cycle is the most important aspect of brumation. I keep 1.1 henkeli and 2.2 Lineatus

[Jackp308]

Thanks , great feedback everyone. Uroplatus seem to tolerate a lot cooler temps then I imagined overall.
As for the breeding and cooling, Im going to need at least another year minimal to actually monitor my success or failure rate in my methods to document accurately. Im almost confused to go with their seasons or mine. My sikoare and lineatus are in full cycle at the moment, mating or laying eggs every 20 days now. I'm finding eggs every week. That is another topic though. They just started doing this in NOV. which makes me believe they are on Madagascar's schedule still. Lots to learn and I enjoy reading all of your posts.

Have a good day
Jack

[pakinjak]

I hear ya, man. I keep reading where folks are pairing and heating their geckos back up, and I still haven't started cooling. I just got my first fimb eggs last week, and both of my laying females were imported this year so I'm trying to ease them into our seasonal cycle. I'll be interested to hear how it all goes for you, since I'm having a similar experience.

[Harley_Davidson]

hmmmm after reading all this it seriously makes me think maybe I should move my sikorae back into the living room. Right now they are in "Lizard Lodge" my spare room and when I leave the door closed it gets warm in there. I check their thermometer and it never seems to read above 75 regardless but if they were out in the living room its a bit cooler even out there.

What do you guys think? Also that way I could enjoy them all the time....LOL

[tristan 92]

I think that if you want to change the cycle of your animals, you have to do it on a long-term period.
I prefer keep my animals on the same cycle ( nearly ) that they have in madagascar, I've my cold period between july and october, and during the winter, I start the big breeding season, with also a big variation of humidity when it's really cold, I mist them once a day whereas they have 4 to 6 times during the breeding season.

Here is an example of the variation of temperature and humidity on the average for Madagascar, this is NOT the temp you have to use, just an example which reflect the global variation of malagasy climate.
Also, it's really different depending on the montagne, the altitude and place where you are in Madagascar.
For example, Temperatures in Montagne d'Ambre (in the north) don't show big variations, but there is still a big variation in humidity level.
On the East coast, some forest in altitude can be really cold during the malagasy winter.




PS : It's really hard for European to understand everything without Help, It would be so nice if there was only ONE way to give temperatures
Maybe we can use Kelvin degrees ?

[tristan 92]

(I used this graph not because they are better than the two on the first page, just because it shows temperatures in °C )

The thing you have to do for your animals is to respect the seasons, if it's too cold for your breeding season, you can had a 25W spot above the tank, but the thing that you have to respect is that you have to be carefull with humidity and cold. Like for every animals, it can be bad for them to have low temperatures and an important humidity.