gestation period for tokay

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zarko

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is gestation for females similar to leos something form 19-25 days?
i have my female with the male for 5 days. he was singing like crazy, she was reacting in here terrarium. i put them together and song stopped or radically decreased. i saw some vibrating and courtship stuff but never seen actual act.
after 5 days i have separated them cause i don't want him to disturb the female. she acts realy good in here own enclosure. so i am wondering if something happen how much do i have to wait.
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Ophidiophile

Ophidiophile

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I'm far from an expert having just bred Tokays for the first time. I received a pair of calico (!) tokays that were in fairly bad shape back in February of 2008. After one year of rehabilitation and keeping them separately, I introduced them into a single larger cage for the first time in mid-February 2009. I don't know when exactly they bred, but my female laid her first pair of eggs on March 24, 2009. So there's a little bit of guesswork here but I'd say gestation was probably somewhere between 30 and 40 days. She laid just a single egg a few days ago, which is roughly 20 days after the first clutch. The single egg is quite a bit larger than either of the eggs in the 2 egg clutch. All eggs look good and I've left them in the cage adhered to the piece of cork bark under which they were laid. Both male and female engage in quite a bit of egg guarding - it's really fascinating to watch. Again this is my first time breeding tokays so your mileage may vary! :D
 
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Ingo

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The normal gestation period for tokays is longer than for leos. In most cases its 6-8 weeks. The shortest time between two clutches were five weeks for one of my tokay females.


Ingo
 
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zarko

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i have got first eggs this season !!!
i found them in shoe box that i use for female to hide...it is easy to transfer here that way to male's terrarium.
there are 2 big white eggs that i am going to leave in terr. even dough i can put it in incubator on 28C, reason is that if the gekko get born(i did not know how to spell heach !!! ) they will run a round free in incubator and i dont want that!
 
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