Question for all of you that have actually bred these lovely little geckos. Where do yours usually deposit their eggs? My female just went from bloated to almost painfully skinny overnight. Since she's in with a male and has been for several months now it seems likely she just laid. However I can't for the life of me find any eggs on any of the cage furniture. I assumed they being small arboreal geckos would stick there eggs to the side of something. Am I wrong, do the go down to the ground and bury them like Rhacodactylus? Any insight/experience is appreciated.
E. Agricolae egg deposition
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bjoern rolfes
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Hi,
my female lays her eggs in the potting soil in my plant pot.
i have a piece of cork bark over the soil ground. under this the eggs are mainly half burried. so you can see the top off the eggs.
my last clutch was totaly burried so i had to search.
For the floor of the viv i use sand so that the female wont lay her eggs there.
regards
björn
my female lays her eggs in the potting soil in my plant pot.
i have a piece of cork bark over the soil ground. under this the eggs are mainly half burried. so you can see the top off the eggs.
my last clutch was totaly burried so i had to search.
For the floor of the viv i use sand so that the female wont lay her eggs there.
regards
björn
bjoern rolfes
New member
i can tell you only in degree. it was 27 °C took like 48 days but one juvie died directly after hatching. the other egg i opened 3 days later dead in egg.
but the incubation time is 37-48 days. moist incubating substrate like vermiculit oder perlit (don´t know if these are the english names too)
so you soil has to be moist but dont put water on the eggs. i would search carefully for the eggs an put them in the incubator.
good luck
but the incubation time is 37-48 days. moist incubating substrate like vermiculit oder perlit (don´t know if these are the english names too)
so you soil has to be moist but dont put water on the eggs. i would search carefully for the eggs an put them in the incubator.
good luck
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sciteacher
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Incubation temps?
I'm curious about incubation temps and length of incubation. I had my first E. agricolae hatch yesterday after an incubation of about 77 days (which seems rather long based on the numbers above). The other egg in the clutch had started to discolor and collapse quite some time ago. I eventually cut it open and found a partially formed youngster. I am incubating these eggs just like my rhacodactylus eggs (fluctuating room temperature). With my rhac eggs, I find that the late season eggs go much longer due to lower temps in my reptile room, but still hatch out large, healthy offspring. I still have 2 more agricolae eggs in with the rhac eggs, and am a bit worried that my temps are too low for them. During the summer, my reptile room usually reached temps of 80 - 82º (27 - 28C) during the day and dropped down to 73 - 75º (23ºC) at night. Now as things have cooled down, my room temp. holds pretty steady in the very low '70's (22ºC) day and night. I know from experience that the rhac eggs will do fine under these conditions, but am curious as to whether this sounds like a problem for the agricolae. Anyone have any thoughts? Do I need to go warmer, or will they just take longer to incubate and hatch like the rhacs?
Gary Hamann
Ridge and Valley Reptiles
I'm curious about incubation temps and length of incubation. I had my first E. agricolae hatch yesterday after an incubation of about 77 days (which seems rather long based on the numbers above). The other egg in the clutch had started to discolor and collapse quite some time ago. I eventually cut it open and found a partially formed youngster. I am incubating these eggs just like my rhacodactylus eggs (fluctuating room temperature). With my rhac eggs, I find that the late season eggs go much longer due to lower temps in my reptile room, but still hatch out large, healthy offspring. I still have 2 more agricolae eggs in with the rhac eggs, and am a bit worried that my temps are too low for them. During the summer, my reptile room usually reached temps of 80 - 82º (27 - 28C) during the day and dropped down to 73 - 75º (23ºC) at night. Now as things have cooled down, my room temp. holds pretty steady in the very low '70's (22ºC) day and night. I know from experience that the rhac eggs will do fine under these conditions, but am curious as to whether this sounds like a problem for the agricolae. Anyone have any thoughts? Do I need to go warmer, or will they just take longer to incubate and hatch like the rhacs?
Gary Hamann
Ridge and Valley Reptiles
van_veen456
New member
I'm not very experienced with agricolae eggs (only my first year of breeding)
I incubated most of my eggs between 25,5 and 26,5. The animals that hatched from this where 4.1 and the took around 60 days to hatch.
After that I turned the incubator down to 23,5<>24,5. I lost 3 eggs and hatched one youngster. (unsexed so far)
I've got a feeling that agricolae eggs can endure low temperatures, but not to low. I for one will try to incubate them around 24,5 to 25,5 next year. I have a weird feeling telling me that below 24 is a bit dangerous. I know that there are more then enough breeders using temps below 24 celcius, but I'm just not sure....
My rhac eggs are doing fine at both temperatures. They are growing steadily at 23,5
@bjoern
37 to 48 days sounds to me like a very short incubation. Do you know the sexes of the animals that hatched?
I incubated most of my eggs between 25,5 and 26,5. The animals that hatched from this where 4.1 and the took around 60 days to hatch.
After that I turned the incubator down to 23,5<>24,5. I lost 3 eggs and hatched one youngster. (unsexed so far)
I've got a feeling that agricolae eggs can endure low temperatures, but not to low. I for one will try to incubate them around 24,5 to 25,5 next year. I have a weird feeling telling me that below 24 is a bit dangerous. I know that there are more then enough breeders using temps below 24 celcius, but I'm just not sure....
My rhac eggs are doing fine at both temperatures. They are growing steadily at 23,5
@bjoern
37 to 48 days sounds to me like a very short incubation. Do you know the sexes of the animals that hatched?
bjoern rolfes
New member
Hi,
no sexes were mentioned in the article i have.
Greetings
no sexes were mentioned in the article i have.
Greetings