Leopard Gecko Blog

Last week I determined that my RAPTOR female was gravid. Her belly was big and I could see 2 eggs. I put her back together with Henry, the RAPTOR male. They had been together for a week in early January.

After making sure the egg-laying hide (lay box) had sufficient moist coconut fiber, I turned the incubator on.

Sunday night Lemon Drop was in the lay box digging. But Monday morning she was out walking around. I removed the lay box and carefully dug around finding 2 nice white eggs.

Set up a fresh Rubber Maid container with 60 grams of pearlite and 48 grams of water (1:0.8 ratio by weight). This is the leopard gecko incubation method recommended by Albey. Placed the eggs in and put in the incubator at ~82 degrees.

Hopefully they are fertile and there will be 2 beautiful RAPTOR hatchlings in 7-8 weeks.

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I know, I’m a bit late with the “Happy New Year”. I’m also a bit late with an update to this blog.

Well I’m back and planning to make more frequent updates in this new year.

Well, the geckos are doing great. Growing and getting more beautiful. I guess I never finished the story of the young female that laid a couple eggs. The eggs were infertile. I incubated them for a few weeks, and the second clutch of eggs as well. But all the eggs eventually shriveled up. She didn’t eat for a while and I was worried but eventually get her appetite back and has gain weight.

The pair of Bell albinos that I bought at the reptile show in Manchester, NH in September may not actually be Bells. I tooks some pictures with closeups of the eyes and posted them on GeckoFourms.net and the consensus was that they were probably both the more common Tremper albinos. I will probably need to cross the male to a known Tremper female and to the female that I bought as a Bell. In the future I am not going to trust breeders at shows unless I know of there reputation beforehand.

Breeding Season 2010

I plan to start breeding Leos this season. I bought a used incubator so I am all ready. I just need breeding pairs.

Many of the Geckos I bought after August ‘09 will not be ready to breed for a few more months. However, my RAPTOR pair are 9 months and are large enough now. So I put them together last week. The female, Lemon Drop, didn’t seem interested and so they have been separated until I determine that she is ovulating.

That is all for today. I promise to write more frequently and provide some interesting articles.

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