hey guy need some advise with the Tokays

Atomic Geckos

New member
i have like 5 random tanks like 120 bucks and theres a expo on the 12 so i want to get some tokays to fillem wanted advise for breeding so from what i know they fuze there eggs to stuff and they take like 120 days to hatch /???? people dont say much like temp but i think its a little long for eggs but idk wanted any advise
 

billewicz

New member
i have like 5 random tanks like 120 bucks and theres a expo on the 12 so i want to get some tokays to fillem wanted advise for breeding so from what i know they fuze there eggs to stuff and they take like 120 days to hatch /???? people dont say much like temp but i think its a little long for eggs but idk wanted any advise

Hello and welcome to the Tokay section of the Forums. I would be pleased to help you out with some of this but I'd like to ask you to do a couple of things first.

Your questions are readily answered already in several older threads that would be worth your while searching & reading. There's a bit of a jump from ground loving desert Gekko to vertical tropical Tokay. So please take a little time and enjoy the wealth of information here.

So that was the first request. The second is, as you might have already guessed, some of the most experienced Tokay breeders here would find it much easier to converse with you if you use something closer to the Queens' English.

Good luck and all the best,

Michael's Tokay Hoard @:

www.billewicz.com
 

Atomic Geckos

New member
ok can do yes i aculy was looking and reading treads here on GU i had plans for the tanks coco husk and peat moss as substrate with 3 inch PVC pipe sections misting sistum for each tank , 4 inch heat stripes(flexwatt) on the sides what is your idea about the setup ? also do you keep your geckos in pairs trios or seperatly and add the male when you want to produce babies ? like i do with leos and fat tail geckos
thank you '
Max
 

billewicz

New member
Sounds good so far. You may end up adding flexwatt across the bottom as well. This will help keep the humidity up from the misting on the substrate. Your tubes should be almost vertical, leaning up against foliage and such.

Actually I've had some success with a 1.2 or 1.3 in Leos but not with Tokay. Trios never seem to work because of competition between the females over the male. They will eat each others' eggs and can break each others' back as well so pairs work much better to a point.

By the way, sibling females can usually be kept together until adulthood.

Now let's go back to pairs. Breeding season starts in late December/January and rocks through June. Pairing up in December usually works well. If you are using imported wild caught females, you should pull your males after the 2nd set of eggs. (End of February-ish) She may still lay another set or three even after he's gone.

The danger here is that the WC female will be in danger of egg binding thought to be from kidney failure. Although this can happen in captive bred girls as well, it is not as common. And yes, we've all seen some females that can crank out 10 eggs a year without issue.

The problem here, over time, is that the female never gets to build her reserves or grow while the male just gets bigger and bigger. I'm actually at the point of 'retiring' some of my bigger males because they are just too strong for a girl less than half his size.
 
Top