incubation info.

[hskrborn71]

I know this has been answered i seen awhile ago but now i cant seem to find it. I know that if you incubate at about 80 degrees you will get mostly females. My question is when you raise the temp to 89 degrees has anyone noticed a difference in the sex ratio? Also i was wondering at wht incubation day do you switch to 89 degrees to get brighter colors i think i read it was around 30 days but im not sure. Thanks for any info you guys might have on this.


Bill

P.s. also i was wondering if leos really need a humid hide when in a rack system I know some of the top breeders dont use them i was just curious on what other people thought about this.

 

[Allee Toler]

80F is mostly females. 89F is mostly males.

All geckos need a humid hide. When I see them going into shed I just mist down their tub for the night, then dry it out in the morning.

 

[acpart]

Some people, who want brightly colored females, start the eggs at 80 and after a few weeks, when the gender is set, slowly raise the temp to 89. Other people avoid this, feeling that it leads to deformities. I have seen no reliable data about this.

I only keep hatchlings in racks and I don't use a humid hide because it's pretty humid in there (and the tubs for the babies are pretty small). I do watch them carefully as they go into shed and mist if needed.

Aliza

 

[CountGecko]

Some people, who want brightly colored females, start the eggs at 80 and after a few weeks, when the gender is set, slowly raise the temp to 89. Other people avoid this, feeling that it leads to deformities. I have seen no reliable data about this.
Aliza

I think rapid fluctuation is the cause, If you start at lower temps and slowly introduce them to higher temps I'd imagine it wouldn't cause damage. However most likely in the wild they would have some small degree of fluctuation do to night and day temps.