My red 'female' turned out to be a MALE and reproduced.

cooper01

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I am so excited about this!!! Yesterday I found three eggs in a tank I thought housed two females. The most exciting part about it is that the male is reticulated SUPER TURBO ULTRA MEGA RED. I hope that all will work out and I will have some hatchling gargs. My question for you is, with the knowledge that I am a PhD zoologist and have read lots about how to incubate and do basic care for the babies, what are some tips that a person with experience may have? I'm looking for anything at all. It would make my day if you guys guided me through this process. I have hatched two leopard babies, but both died. I'm not sure why. I really read and did my research, but for some reason if didn't work. Thank you very much in advance for any help you might have in the matter.

Peace and Love
 

strakey

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During the incubation keep the eggs at room temp and check the moisture once a week. Keep the lid closed but with a few holes poked in top to breathe. Use a substrate like vermiculite with a 2 part verm to 1 part water. They should hatch between 60-120 days. Feed cgd or the garg substitute until they are a 1.5-2 months old then feed crickets/roaches about 1ce a week or so. You should be good then.

good luck

andy
 

StickyFeet.

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Having just hatched out some baby gargs last week, expect incubation time to be close to 100 days if you intend on incubating at room temperatures. Of course incubating at higher temperatures will speed up the process, however having babies hatch out too early just because we want them too can lead to higher mortality rates.

Mine were incubating at a steady 70 for the first 2 months and then bumped up to 72-75 for the remainder of the time due to the weather getting nicer out here. My incubation time was 99 days and the baby garg hatched successfully at 7:40 am and my fiance first saw him at 6:00am with his head poked out.

The baby took close to 2 hours to hatch out completely, but this can vary. Some babies will hatch out right away and some will take their time. It's important to let them be in the egg so they can absorb all of the yolk.

Don't bother feeding the first day as they survive off of the yolk. You can begin feeding Crested Gecko diet, or the 2 part MRPs but I personally feed Clarks Gargoyle diet as it has more protein in it and Gargoyles DO require more protein in their diet. At about 4 weeks old is when I introduce dusted crickets, and I feed them dusted crickets twice a week. It's important to have them established on both, and from my own personal experience, they absolutely flourish from having crickets in their diet.

Good luck! Hopefully they are fertile. Make sure to keep an eye on your female aswell because laying eggs does take a lot out of them and you wouldn't want her to calcium crash, and when she lays another clutch for you, you don't want those eggs to be undercalcified as this runs the risk of babies not hatching out, or babies hatching out with MBD.

Also make sure that she remains at an appropriate weight because if she loses too much weight it can be difficult for her to continue producing eggs, which can/may lead to egg binding.

Hope this helps! If you have any more questions don't hesitate to ask!
 

Lordoftheswarms

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You can't seriously keep a male like that all to yourself! Share some pics!
Just noticed this thread has a disproportionate amount of Canadians on here.
 

cooper01

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at long last

Here are the pics of my boy. He looks more rust colored int he pics than he really is. Many times when I see him he is much more red colored. Hope you like. I am sooooo happy that I have a male. I am incubating the first three eggs now. Have a great day!!!
 

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StickyFeet.

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Oooh Gorgeous boy. I too find it difficult to photograph reds. I have a red boy aswell and it's really hard to capture how bright he is on camera lol. What about pictures of the proud momma?! :biggrin:
 
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