cooling down leos

pkrtech

pkrtech

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Leos will moderate themselves as long as they have a gradient in the enclosure from 90-95 - 74-78. Adjust your hot side and if the cool side is too hot then you need a longer enclosure or you need to shorten the contact area your UTH is touching the enclosure.

IF the room they are in is hotter than 78, that would be a tough one. Not sure what people do in those situations.
 
acpart

acpart

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I don't know if brumating is the answer or not (I saw your other post). I did brumate most of my geckos last winter, mostly because they got themselves started and I just helped it along. I have had a much better breeding season this year (60% better) but I can't say for sure that the brumation is the cause because I changed a few other details. ALso, my geckos that didn't brumate laid just as well as the ones that did.

If you want to try brumation, it will be related to the temperatures to an extent. In my opinion the idea is to be attuned to what is going on naturally with the geckos and to help it along. I live in New England so there is a marked seasonal difference in the light and the ambient temperature. I find that some time in Sept. or Oct. the geckos start eating less. Some of them last winter started sleeping on the cool side. That was my cue to gradually over a few days reduce the temperature on the hot side to maybe somewhere in the 70's (I turned down the thermostats but didn't turn them off). I continued to offer water, but didn't feed the geckos from about mid-November till the beginning of Jan. If I had seen geckos pacing the cage in hunger I would have fed them, but the ones brumating just slept most of the time.

I keep my males and females together during the breeding season but always separate the males from the fall (whenever I sell enough babies to free up tank space) to mid Jan.

The other things to look at (which I changed since last season) are supplementation (I changed from rep cal products to Repashy) and incubation temp (I was incubating at the low end and raised it a bit so it wouldn't get too low). I assume that you're incubating the eggs till they are moldy and shriveled in case.

Aliza
 
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