Not mating

[lifeshighways]

okay - silly question to some - serious to me...

I have 6 tanks currently each one holds 1 male and no less than 2 females, most have 3/4 females. (each tank is atleast 40 long)
All of breeding age.
All healthy, huge fat tails!
Ambient room temp is 85
Ambient humidity is 40-50 constant
Each tank has UTH
Each tank has rocks beneath a black light giving them a warm place to heat up their tummy but not too warm
Each tank has two humid hides and one cool hide (i find them in the cool hide more often than the warm hides, they only spend time in the warm hides when they shed)

Not one egg has been born. Not one female even looks preggers and I havent seen one pair mate...

Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

Except for my blizzard tank I have switched out the males thinking they just may not like the girls they had.. nothing seems to work

 

[Royal-City-Reptiles]

a few simple questions.
How old are your females? Where did you get them?
are you sure you have males???

-Nate

 

[lifeshighways]

a few simple questions.
How old are your females? Where did you get them?
are you sure you have males???

-Nate

Females range in age the oldest is 5 years and the youngest is just over a year.

My leos come from every tom/dick/harry that gets a lizard, decides they are too much trouble and tosses them on craigslist begging some poor sap to take them out of their misary. I have ONLY ONE gecko that came from a pet store, and I feel I rescued it as well - poor thing was starving to death when I got it.

Oh yeah... my boys pores are prominant!

 

[Royal-City-Reptiles]

Could be stress, or, some of your females may be bred out, other than that, I cant think of anything...

-Nate

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

You're missing two things...candle light and some Barry White playing in the back ground

 

[lifeshighways]

You're missing two things...candle light and some Barry White playing in the back ground

:rofl::nana::fight:
I am not kidding, someone is coming to paint a mural on my gecko wall that resembles a photo taken of a Pakastan Desert, and I DO play desert sounds on a CD player all day for them... seriously I know I have a serious OCD issue.. everything has to be as close to "real life" for them as I can possibly get.. with the exception that in the wild, they probably dont have some silly human calling them baby names and holding them every day! *LOL*

 

[lifeshighways]

Could be stress, or, some of your females may be bred out, other than that, I cant think of anything...

-Nate

Stress? maybe from me holding them too much? or do you think it's the silly baby names I call them :rofl:

I doubt they are bred out the only 5 year old I have has only ever produced 1 clutch with the one male she is with... I've never put her in w/any other male simply because I dont have any big enough I dont worry her big butt wont eat!

I have friends still getting eggs out of their cages... I thought mating season was over for them?

 

[Uroplatus]

Stress was also my first thought.

Observe times the behavior of the male at the feeding time, is the male dominant he goes fast to the crickets. If he runs with lowered head by the enclosure, the male is suppressed.

Perhaps you should separate the animals first times.
All best for your buggers!

 

[Royal-City-Reptiles]

It's probably mainly the names!
lol

Could be the handling, could be cramped, could be animals that don't get along...

Mating season will be coming to a close in the next couple months! so hurry up and figure out the issue!!

-Nate

 

[lifeshighways]

Ok tonight every one moves... maybe they dont like their cage mates... Then I wont touch anyone for a week... (maybe) and see if it's that...but sorry guys, I am still calling them cute lil baby names!
I want lil baby gecko eggs!!!
I need to try out my new homemade incubator dang it!

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

I would take the males out and put them alone for a week or two. And then place them in with the females that you would like them to breed.

 

[lifeshighways]

okay, I can do that... what's your thought process there?
What will putting them alone for a week do for them?

Okay as I typed that I see how obviously silly that question might be... put a human male alone for a week then place him in a room with three hot females and well... I assume that's what your thought process is right?

 

[Kazska]

:rofl::nana::fight:
I am not kidding, someone is coming to paint a mural on my gecko wall that resembles a photo taken of a Pakastan Desert, and I DO play desert sounds on a CD player all day for them... seriously I know I have a serious OCD issue.. everything has to be as close to "real life" for them as I can possibly get.. with the exception that in the wild, they probably dont have some silly human calling them baby names and holding them every day! *LOL*

Ha ha! What exactly ARE the "desert sounds"? Passing tumble weeds perhaps? :lol:

xxxXXX

 

[lifeshighways]

I'm not sure, it's some "Sounds of the Sahara" CD my mom found for us... you can hear some birds in the background, you can hear what sounds like sand being blown across more sand... you can hear some freaky animals what I can only assume are meerkats? *LOL* I have no idea, when I get home I'll check and let you know the exact name of the CD...

I play a different CD in my Chams cage.. he seriously has a CD player in his cage.. it plays tropical rainforest sounds...

I know i know... I take meds for my illness *LOL*

 

[lifeshighways]

EDIT: Found it on EBAY...

DESERT OASIS - Nature Sounds CD! - Relax/Sleep - Resell - eBay (item 280248768890 end time Jul-28-08 22:21:54 PDT)

 

[Kazska]

EDIT: Found it on EBAY...

DESERT OASIS - Nature Sounds CD! - Relax/Sleep - Resell - eBay (item 280248768890 end time Jul-28-08 22:21:54 PDT)

Ha ha, genius! Thanks for that!

xxxXXX

 

[acpart]

I don't have an answer, just more brainstorming and trouble shooting:

have you checked to make sure your females are ovulating?

do you have lay boxes?

What are your geckos eating? There have been reports of a number of people having poor breeding seasons including females failing to ovulate or to breed and not laying. Anecdotally there may be a connection to feeding of mealworms bought commercially, though there is no proof. Some people have switched their adults off mealworms and seen an improvement in production.

Aliza

 

[lifeshighways]

how can you tell if they are ovulating

 

[acpart]

how can you tell if they are ovulating

Look in the mid to lower abdomen. If they are ovulating there should be 1 or 2 pale pink spots, about the size, color and shape of a pencil eraser. To see pictures, google "gecko ovulation" in images and you'll probably find something.

Aliza