Another species hatched on the S.I.M.

[Gregg M]

Cool little beardeds bred by my friend Billy...

 

[robin]

woooo! awesome! i am waiting for mine in the mail gregg

how many species is that now?

 

[Gregg M]

So far the species that hatched....

Leopard geckos
Crested geckos
Gargoyle geckos
Yellow ackies
Blackhead monitors
Green Iguanas
Bearded dragons
Bybrons geckos

Animals currently being incubated on the container...

Condros
Fat tail geckos
Ball pythons
Hognose snakes
Gilas
Mexican beaded (Heloderma horridum alverezi)
Corn snakes
Albino and normal carpet pythons
And a few other species I can not remember... LOL

 

[robin]

wow, have there been any deformities? (not than what might be considered normal) or egg deaths?

 

[BalloonzForU]

SWEET!! Congrats to you and John both on your success.

I just reaized I'm going to need to order a lot more of those after I get moved to MI. Maybe Ken can add Spotted and Childrens to that list for you!!

 

[whkrazyk]

How has the hatch time been, I remember hearing something bout the SIM might be able to shorten the time of incubation, has this been found true?

 

[acpart]

I don't own any yet, but will soon. Now that I'm seeing a closeup --do you think micro-gecko hatchlings would fall through the grid?

Aliza

 

[Gregg M]

Robin, so far there have been no deformities and the only eggs that have not hatched on the S.I.M. were infertile eggs... Every egg that was viable hatched without issue...

How has the hatch time been, I remember hearing something bout the SIM might be able to shorten the time of incubation, has this been found true?

So far in most of the species hatched, the incubation time has been cut by a somewhat significant amount... The beardeds hatched in 50 days when the average time this particular person has been hatching has been 65 to 75 days...

Our Black head monitors and Ackies hatched 10 to 20 days earlier than the clutches incubated in a substrate...

John, myself and a few other large breeders feel that the shortend incubation time along with well developed, strong hatchlings, is due to the egg taking in more oxygen and not being smothered by carbon dioxide... The carbon dioxide the egg gives off drops away from the egg where as if it were burried in a substrate the carbon dioxide would surround the egg...

As far as micro gecko hatchlings falling through the grid goes, the grid holes are 5 mm... The bibrons geckos hatched in the SIM did not go through the grid and they are tiny hatchlings... Their eggs are smaller than pictus eggs...

 

[Ehatcher]

i think you meant no deformities gregg? Congrats on the success the containers are having. Ill be putting my order in, in the coming months

 

[robin]

so even though they are hatching earlier they are coming out just as large and healthy as if they had stayed in a longer period of time?

 

[Gregg M]

None of the hatchlings have hatched with even a yolk sack... We have been noticing that our hatchlings hatched on the SIM have been even more robust in some cases and better starters...

Thanks for the correction Eric... LOL

 

[robin]

ok cool, i am waiting for mine gregg LOL

 

[dprince]

AWESOME!! Lookin' good, Gregg!! :main_thumbsup:

 

[Haroldo]

Gregg, has anyone attempted to incubate hard-shelled eggs in your container? A good number of species I keep lay hard shell eggs, so I wonder how they perform. Does the supported grid fit snug against the sides of the container? Additionally is it possible to order a container with an even smaller grid size? I work with species that hatch out this and smaller:

Using your containers might simplify the design of an incubator I want to build...

 

[Gregg M]

Damn thats a tiny gecko Haroldo!!! LOL

Bibron hatchlings are only slightly larger than the gecko you posted and they also lay hard shelled eggs. So to answer the question about hard shelled eggs, it has worked 100% so far but the only species that lays hard shelled eggs we tested it on so far are the Bibrons...

The grid fits snug... There is no gap between the grid and the walls of the container...

We have not designed a smaller grid... We feel that the 5mm holes are still small enough to keep tiny hatchlings from getting down to the substrate from what we have seen so far... The Bibrons were small enough to get through the grid but they all stayed topside...

I guess if you are that worried about it, you can tightly stretch a nylon stocking over the grid and then add the egg bars... We have never tried anything like that though but I do not see why it would not work...

Using your containers might simplify the design of an incubator I want to build...

We are in the middle of designing an incubator spacifically for a number of our containers... My partner and I are still working things out... If everything pans out the way we want it to, we will have another product to offer besides a larger python size incubation container, at a very reasonable price...:main_thumbsup:

 

[sk8ergrl927]

Gregg Ill be getting mine in November. Hehe

 

[crestedgeckogirly]

Just ordered mine! Can't wait to try it...my winter breeders are just starting up.

Thanks!

-Andrea

 

[Lothario]

that a cool oncubator

 

[darkridder]

Can you adjust the width of the dividers so there is less or more space?

 

[Yamori]

Another S.I.M success hey, Great job and pics too. Cute little dragons, although the Military dragon (Ctenophorus isolepis) is my fav.