P. pictus problems

[El Gecko]

i was wonderin' if anybody has any ideas/tips for me on pictus geckos. i have tried to breed them before, and this is how it generally goes: the female gets eggs, lays them, i take them out of the cage and put them in a incubator where they sit on film canister tops in damp sand. now for the dilema: i have only had one egg hatch--ever! sometimes a weird fungus grows on the eggs, sometimes the eggs turn black, and i am completely comfused. any ideas? thanks in advanced.

 

[Leland]

p.pictus

I have been breeding paroedura pictus for about 5 years now and I have had great success hatching out many different and new "morphs" over the years. Here is how I breed them. You need a male and female that are of prime breeding size (15-20g)...Put them together and they will breed, there's no stopping it. Seperate them after approx. 1week and give the female a lay box with damp vermiculite in it...She will deposit her eggs in this box and you can dig them up when she lays them. Make the eggs with a simple black dot on the top when you find them in the box, this will help you to know what position to put the egg in once you've removed it from the lay box...I incubate on vermiculite (damp, not wet) at 84'F and the eggs almost always hatch around 55-60 days...Babies are housed on coco-fiber in a 6"x6" plastic square container until they are two months...At this point they are moved to a plastic square container that is about 8"x8" and slightly taller and they are now offered tiny mealies as well as crickets...Good luck.