Witnessed Coleonyx variegatus Mating

[JaimeC]

Ok, yup, I saw them doing the deed......so now what? I have had and bred over 10 different species of geckos, but it has been so long and I just got back into keeping them. My main projects at that time were Leo's, Fat-tails, Bibrons, and even the tiny Stenodactylus Petrii. I have not had Bandeds, let alone raised babies! I know the eggs are tiny and the babies are tiny. I have a little container for a humidity chamber/nesting site. When can I expect eggs? My larger female actually looks a little gravid (?)

Thanks in advance

 

[acpart]

I would imagine it will be a few weeks. My C.v. has been laying eggs since October! The first 2 hatched on 12/25 and numbers 19 and 20 hatched yesterday. I actually wish she'd take a break, but she still seems to be in good health.

ALiza

 

[JaimeC]

Hi, ok thank for the info......wow thats a long time to be laying! So whats the size of the eggs and babies when they do hatch? And what do you do with so many babies??

 

[acpart]

The eggs are about 1/4-1/2" and the babies when born are about 1"-1 1/2". I keep them in 6qt tubs in a rack. They eat 1/8" crickets but grow quickly and can handle 1/4" crickets pretty quickly. I can usually sex them by about 4 weeks. I'm sure hoping I can sell them at the next few reptile shows!

Aliza

 

[JaimeC]

OMG!! Thats teeny! Wow.....well, I sure hope I get some eggs and do good with them. They sound adorable and fun! Thank You for the info

 

[c.brevis]

Congrats on the baby gecko making! You should be able to see the eggs in the abdomen if you put her in a clear deli cup and look from below. That's when you know it's getting closer.

I don't know if others have had this problem but my issue was always getting my banded geckos to lay their eggs in the moist box. I've tried boxes with damp moss, with vermiculite, with damp soil and they just never consistently laid eggs in the box. They use it all the time for sitting in or egg laying but I would also find eggs laid outside and desiccated. What I started doing was putting my gravid females in a shoebox with damp vermiculite as a substrate so that whenever or where-ever they lay, they will go straight into the incubator in the shoebox. I then put the female back in with the group. It worked for me for a long time.

 

[perenquen]

The eggs are about 1/4-1/2" and the babies when born are about 1"-1 1/2". I keep them in 6qt tubs in a rack. They eat 1/8" crickets but grow quickly and can handle 1/4" crickets pretty quickly. I can usually sex them by about 4 weeks. I'm sure hoping I can sell them at the next few reptile shows!

Aliza

I just want to mention, that hatched C. variegatus is 1 - 1 1/2 inches long excluding the tail, total length is about 2 inches or slightly more (5 - 6 cm, mine sometimes even up to 6,5 cm)

they are quite easy to raise