Incubating for males

[colinmelsom]

I would like to hear people`s thoughts on incubating for males.As we know many species are heavily skewed for females in captivity.

 

[daggekko]

I don't have a wide range of species hatched yet, but last year I used an incubator for most of the eggs I hatched with P. laticauda and P. pasteuri. All the babies that were incubated in the incubator at 81-83F hatched female. I stopped pulling eggs from my laticauda and let them hatch in the adult enclosure. Don't know what temps the eggs are incubating at but I have started getting males. At the end of the year and through this year I have used the top of one enclosure to incubate. The other eggs get up around 84-86F during the day and down around 70-75F at night. With P. pasteuri I have noticed that some of the eggs stopped developing later on. I have about 9 P. a. chekei eggs and 2 P. s. ladiguensis eggs incubating. I will get back to you later when I find out sexes and if they hatch.

 

[colinmelsom]

Adam its interesting because it seems to be commonly held belief that higher temperatures are needed for males.If this were the case we could get as many males as females.

I had high temperatures in the day time and low at night for mine last year and I have two male borbonica mater from six,however this species seems to be easier to produce males.The other two species that I hatched I had too few young to really comment.

To my knowlege those species that you mentioned are pretty 50:50 in their sex determination.For some reason it seems to be cepediana,guimbeaui,pronki etc.Thats another interesting point.

 

[daggekko]

Yeah I don't know all there is to know about incubating but am aware that you should be able to get 50/50 mix on offspring from the ones I mentioned with a steady temperature. I happen to get mostly female so I figured I would put temperatures to the test!