Coleonyx variegatus TSD or GSD ?

[Sebastian]

Hi folks,

when reading in the forums people say that C.variegatus uses TSD (temperature-dependent sex determination).
Viets et al.(1994) say that C.variegtaus uses GSD (genotypic sex determination).

So what are your experiences on that ?
Which substrate do you use to incubate the eggs?

regards,

Sebastian

 

[acpart]

I incubate my C.v. eggs along with my leopard gecko and African fat tail eggs (and some garg eggs incubating for male). I usually incubate at about 82-83 so I can get all or nearly all females from the leos and AFT's (and males from the gargs). I think I've been breeding C.v. for about 5-6 years and I don't believe they are temp sexed since I usually get about 50-50 males and females. Of course it's possible that they incubate a a lower temp and I'm actually incubating at the range that would produce a mix. I have also read that they are not temp sexable.
Unfortunately, this season I'm left with 4 males and no more females.

Aliza