Infertility Issues.

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Alright, I have been trying many things, but I really think my male leopard gecko has fertility issues. My patternless has laid 5 clutches of infertile eggs at this point, and my albino hasn't laid any at all. I have separated the albino and fattened back up my patternless and reintroduced her back to my tangerine, but to no avail.
What can I do to possibly jump-start his libido? Is there a vet test than can test whether or not it's a problem with him or not? Any special food like pinkies maybe? Would actually introducing him to a fertile male possibly do something? Not let them fight or anything, but let him smell what a real man is...?
Also, if something does finally work and they start producing fertile eggs, can I extend my breeding season an extra month or two?
Thanks for any advice.

 

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The biggest question is whether your male is not mating with the females or whether he is mating but is infertile.

Are you leaving the females in with the male, or just introducing them for a night or a few hours? If you're only keeping them together for a little while, maybe you should consider a longer term "cohabitation".

If you think the male isn't "doing the deed", one trick that works sometimes is to put poop from another male in this male's cage hoping he'll get territorial and do his thing.

It's always possible that he's not fertile, though I don't know how common that is. The only way to discover that is to either breed him to a proven female and see if she produces fertile eggs, or breed your current females to a proven male and see what happens.

If your females are first-timers, they may also just not have gotten the hang of it yet. There is a great variation with first timers. Case in point: I have 2 female first-timers (within a month of each other in age, both produced by me last season) paired with the same male. One has laid 22 eggs in 12 clutches, 11 of which have hatched (I think 2-3 have gone bad). The other has laid 3 clutches. The first clutch hatched but only 1 baby survived (the other was tiny with a huge amount of yolk left), the 2nd clutch went bad and the 3rd was laid only a week ago.

As far as whether you can "extend the breeding season", you can breed as long as the females are ovulating and that's up to Nature.

Good luck,

ALiza

 

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I have him living in there with the female, he has been living with her for a year or so at this point. I have never personally seen him do the deed either. I guess I can try separating them and reintroducing them to see if I can see them doing the deed.
The only problem with finding a fertile male is I don't know anyone personally in the NC area that has a male that I can try with my females, or borrow poo from. haha.
Thanks for the thoughts. I hope I can find an answer...