Nephrurus breeding

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Pitbullgeckos

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Some questions if you have the time and energy:

Got two levis levis females digging for some days in the nesting boxes. When I say digging it´s an understatement, it´s like removing most of the sand in the boxes and spred it out all over the tubs......
Should I bring back the sand in the boxes our should I just let it be?
For how long should they be digging? Im worried about eggstocking if they do not dropp their eggs. Last time they digged for a week more or less.

The females copulated just some 14 days ago, to me it seams like very fast. Is this normal?

Do you let the breeders copulate before every egglaing or just once per season?
 
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kanopy

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I advise you to put back some humid sand in the box if there is not enough in it. I would say there shoulb be at least 4cm deep in it in order your female feel confortable. Just do it in letting her the more quiet she can be.
The shorter time I have seen between mating and laying is 21 days, the longest time was 30 days but they always dig a few days before, so nothing to worry for you.
I always introduce the male in the female enclosure to mate and remove him when things are done.
Hope that helps,
Fred
 
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Pitbullgeckos

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Thanks Fred!

About copulation, do you let them copulate several times a season or just once?

With my Uros I let the males in in the beggining of the season and thats enough for the rest of the year and about 6 cluthes.
With F.pardalis (chameleons) the female needs just one shot and thats enough for the rest of her life to produce fertile eggs.
 
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kanopy

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That is quite impressive the information about F.pardalis, I was not aware.
That is not the same with the N.l.levis (for the sake of them).
With one mating, the female can lay 3 or 4 clutches, sometimes less, sometimes more. You can introduce the male another time, depending on the number of clutches the female has already laid, but in that way she also may lay too much in the breeding season. So that is a decision you have to take with the general health state of your female.
Just during that period offer them enough and well supplemented food.
Fred

Pittbullgeckos said:
Thanks Fred!

About copulation, do you let them copulate several times a season or just once?

With my Uros I let the males in in the beggining of the season and thats enough for the rest of the year and about 6 cluthes.
With F.pardalis (chameleons) the female needs just one shot and thats enough for the rest of her life to produce fertile eggs.
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Riverside Reptiles

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I don't even use nesting boxes for my levis females. I just let them dig in their enclosures and lay wherever they choose. I keep them on sand that's deep enough for them to tunnel all over the place. As said above, they'll start doing some serious digging a few days before laying. But don't mistake that for just normal digging. Keep in mind that levis just plain like to dig.

As for copulation, I've done it both ways (just once per season and multiple times per season) and I find them much more productive when bred to the male several times per season.
 
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Ira

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Riverside Reptiles said:
I don't even use nesting boxes for my levis females. I just let them dig in their enclosures and lay wherever they choose. I keep them on sand that's deep enough for them to tunnel all over the place. As said above, they'll start doing some serious digging a few days before laying. But don't mistake that for just normal digging. Keep in mind that levis just plain like to dig.

As for copulation, I've done it both ways (just once per season and multiple times per season) and I find them much more productive when bred to the male several times per season.
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Ethan,
my levis tunnel extensively as well, when the female drops her eggs, is the sand from her digging around obvious enough to know when she's laid her eggs in one of her tunnels?? Or can you see them by looking under or on the side of her box?
 
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Riverside Reptiles

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Ira, because I keep them alone, I know exactly when they were bred and so I tend to have a pretty good idea of when they'll lay. The females tend to stop eating a few days before laying as well which is a good indicator. The other good indicator is if they're out and about digging tunnels during daytime hours. And yep, I can usually see the eggs through the sides and/or bottom of the box to tell where the eggs are to dig them up. They usually dig all the way down to the bottom of the box.
 
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Pitbullgeckos

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This is good stuff, thanks a lot!

I have not been doing this for long but with the softskins (levis, laevissimus, etc) the females tend to shed a few days before. Could that allso be a sign?

I´ve been breeding reptiles for many years but I must say the nephrurus are cool. I have not been having this fun for years. And this site rules!
 
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Random

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i keep mine on around 4cm of sand and they lay in their substrate where their happy with the temp., and moisture level - which usually ends up under the water dish which makes collecting and checking for eggs really easy - you will know when they lay - mine are in 3 foot tanks but upon laying will digg up more than half the enclosure so makes it very identifiable when they lay.
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ori

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Hello,
to the N.levis levis - first time breeding females can dig up to one week before laying eggs. I observed, that with every other clutch is time between start of digging and eggs laying shorter. My experienced female dig only two days.

Females usually lay eggs every 21 days, but last season one female laid after 16 days...I lowered amount of food and she prolongated period to 20 days.

Best,
Ori
 
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Pitbullgeckos

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Ken!
How it works I do not full understand except that the female stores the sperm somehow. But there are many differenses between geckos and Furcifer, one is that the egglaying goes on for about a year and after thet the female is gone.

Anyone intrested just go to my home page; Welcome To Blue Chameleons
Enjoy!
 
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