Hatchling Day Gecko

[lessthantito]

I have been waiting patiently for my 2 clutches of Phelsuma V-nigra cormoraegrandensis to hatch, and it's right around 45 days now so tonight I was feeding all of my animals and I put some crickets in my Mossy Leaftail tank and looked and there was a tiny day gecko hatchling hanging out on the outside of her tank, this was a complete suprise to me because I had no Idea that there were other eggs much less a tiny gecko I took a couple of pics they are bad but the little one looks pretty stressed

 

[watts501]

congrats !! how small are they

 

[baugh]

Congrats on the hatchling. Is there only the one hatchling? How many more eggs do you have incubating?

It's is a little harder to see the eggs in the V-nigra than most of the other Phelsuma species.

 

[lessthantito]

I only found one hatchling, I have 4 eggs incubating and I looked through both tanks that they are in and I didn't find any other eggs or remains of eggs which was pretty weird to me I have no Idea how old this guy is but it's less than an inch long

 

[lessthantito]

tonight I was doing a little searching and found my hatchlings egg and found out that I might have another little one running around but I also found 4 more eggs so now I have 8 eggs and I am pretty sure they are all viable

 

[Adrn]

Tito,
That is awesome! It sounds like you have a very active breeding pair. Where did you end up finding the clutches?

 

[lessthantito]

in the only place I didn't look which was 2 smaller sticks of bamboo that I did not think they would be able to get inside of I was pretty surprised to find so many eggs, I actually have a breeding trio

 

[NatZoo]

Congratts and good luck!

 

[lessthantito]

so it's coming up on 60 days now and none have hatched they all look good, so anyone here who has bred any Phelsuma v-nigra sp. what was the average time for these eggs to incubate should I be worried or is this a normal amount of time ?

 

[baugh]

I have not hatched any out yet, but mine are right around 55 days.

 

[baugh]

I had my first hatch out today at 58 days. I will keep you posted on how long it takes the rest to hatch out.

 

[lessthantito]

Finally after 83 days I came home and there they were I could only get a pic of one this is a 1 gallon jar it's in

 

[baugh]

congrats. It took quite a long time for them to hatch. I hope they do good for you.

 

[lessthantito]

thanks I was just about to give up on them I still have 6 more that i'm waiting on

 

[jpmarcel]

Hello. I've had 6 clutches hatch out of phelsuma V-nigra cormoraegrandensis this year and they have all hatched in 54 to 55 days. I incubated them at about 80-86 F. These have become one of my favorite day geckos.

Jason

 

[lessthantito]

yes these are my favorite Phelsuma that I am working with. I don't know what happened though I have incubated them insitu with temps ranging for 80-90 f, I am really beginning to doubt that the other clutch that was laid around the same time is even going to hatch