Breeding and incubation?

[My geckos have tails]

Hey everyone I had a few questions about breeding cresties. I purchased a female crested last night and she will be arriving on Tuesday next week. I have heard that you should put more than one female in the cage so she doesn't get over whelmed and what I was thinking I could do is just put her in with the male for a week then take her out for a week. Would that work?
Also I will be incubating in a circular cooler with about an inch of water at the bottom and so PVC pipes as a stand to raise the eggs out of the water. The cooler keeps a steady temperature range of 69 to 71 degrees F

P.s. the gecko will not be breeding till she is heavy enough witch will probably be next season.

 

[Miss]

Do you know the weight of the crested gecko you are buying? If she will not be breeding weight until next season then you have lots of time to read as many care sheets as possible on breeding etc. There are a lot of them available if you spend some time researching on google.

Males can harass the females during breeding season, which is why many people choose to house them separately and periodically introduce the male.

I incubate my eggs at room temperature in damp vermiculite.

 

[My geckos have tails]

Yeah I know I have lots of time to research because she's like 23 grams. I was just wondering what everyone here does

 

[MdngtRain]

I put them together in large (40g or larger) heavily planted vivs for the duration of the season, unless I notice stress or aggression in one or both of the geckos. I have not yet had any problems doing this. I remove the male at the end of the season, and he will be housed alone until the next season's intro's happen.
I incubate with repashy's hatching medium (can't think of what it is off the top of my head, but it looks a lot like aquatic plant soil). I do it in tupperware that has some holes, but it is kept at room temp (fluctuations and all) in the reptile room. I mist about every 3 or 5 days, depending on the ambient humidity here in sfl. I have not had any issues since moving down here, but when I lived in CT, I used to let the eggs incubate int he soil, since I had better lick with that (just have to watch for hatchlings like a hawk). That is just me though.

 

[mikew1234]

I used to house trios year round. I rarely needed to separate individuals, and aggression was always minimal. Never had any geckos stress out too much, and if I felt there was a large weight loss, which was rare, I would remove that gecko for a short period of time until the weight was back up. I would add calcium to the food as well as a small dish of powder, which they did use. Weekly rotations will end up stressing both geckos as they will likely not acclimate to each other.

As for incubation, I used hatchrite incubation medium in 8 oz deli cups. I originally used a drawer in a dresser, but eventually moved up to cheaper incubators when I had too many eggs to fit. As long as you keep a small temperature gradient (2-3 degrees at most in each direction) at a lower temperature (68-70) they should hatch in 75-90 days. Higher temps will work, I've used temps between 68 and 78 with success. The higher temps cut incubation to 45-60 days, but the babies are noticeably smaller, and in my opinion, they grow slower as well.