HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!

[tyler19]

I NEED SOME HELP!! I just got back to my room to find my male mating with my female!! what do i do?? how long till she lays eggs?? ADVICE PRONTO!!!!! and please dont move this thread:main_no: no one every responds under the breeding thread. I need ot know what to do.the male and female are both of age and propper weight. :main_thumbsup::main_yes::main_rolleyes:help??

 

[fOOlsgOld]

Start knitting little cardigans?

Taken from hkreptiles.com (not endorsing them, just the fastest place I could find to copy/paste from )

"The female will lay eggs between 2 to 5 weeks after the first mate. Place an empty cricket box inside the viv with half damp Vermiculate. You will notice the female climbing into this and start digging. Hopefully soon she will lay her eggs there. If you dont place such a box into the tank you may find she will lay her eggs into the water bowl. Once you notice the eggs have been laid you need to remove them ASAP into an incubator. Leopard geckos sex depends on temperature. If you incubate the eggs at 80-82F almost all of the geckos will be female, at 84-86F they will be half and half and around 88-90F they will almost all be male. 90F and above will produce a hot female which mean they are very aggressive and very hard to breed. Depending on incubation temperatures, Leopard gecko eggs will hatch between 45 to 60 days."
Were you wanting them to mate in the first place? If so you should do more research now, before she lays, as to what you need to do to keep the eggs.

 

[Grinning Geckos]

Not sure why you're in a panic..that's what male and females do when they get together. If you've had them together for awhile, I'm more than willing to bet they've mated before, and you just happened to catch them this time.

Assuming she's fertile (because she wouldn't be too receptive to him otherwise), she should develop eggs and lay in 2 - 4 weeks. Make sure she had a nice humid hide (on the warm side!) availible with moss or other cushy substrate in it. You don't want her to hold eggs because of a lack of a good place to lay them. She'll continue to lay every 2 - 4 weeks unless you do something to make her stop (reduce then stop feeding, then cool her down for several weeks).

If you REALLY want baby leos (sounds like you weren't expecting this), then check out Albey's site for some good incubating tips. Otherwise...just toss the eggs. Think of them as chicken eggs (sorta). They won't hatch unless you try to make them hatch.

My advise... keep her well fed, and move the male out.

 

[AntMan612]

You don't want her to hold eggs because of a lack of a good place to lay them. She'll continue to lay every 2 - 4 weeks unless you do something to make her stop (reduce then stop feeding, then cool her down for several weeks).

Interesting... I didn't know it was possible to stop the egg laying process. Could this be risky unless knowledgably supervised? Then again, so is breeding, egg incubation, and hatchling care...

 

[Grinning Geckos]

Yes, what I wrote was just a very brief description...doing it wrong can cause problems. It's useful to know for young females that start to ovulate too early/small. It can also be used for breeders that are wearing themselves out.

 

[AntMan612]

That's wonderful information; there's so much to learn in this hobby!

 

[Grinning Geckos]

I just realised part of what I wrote is a bit confusing, so just to clarify...females will stop laying at some point in time, you don't have to make them stop...it's just something that you can do if you really don't want them to produce eggs.

 

[cwazy]

just a touch of common sence... if you dont want mating to accure... SEPERATE... just tossing that out there... *shrug*

 

[leonut]

just a touch of common sence... if you dont want mating to accure... SEPERATE... just tossing that out there... *shrug*

lol i agree.

did you not realize they were different sexes or something?

 

[GatorGirl286]

i was wondering that myself. if you did not want them to mate then why did you keep them in the same tank? lol

 

[LeapinLizards]

I think guys, that Tyler was not surprised by the fact that they were mating, but more by the fact that they were mating NOW lol. I think a lot of people get into this, before really planning it all out...reading up about egg developement, etc. It's a learning process, and I can understand how your first eggs can be scary, heck, when I found my first ones I walked in the gecko room after waking up early and about had a heart attack trying to mix the perlite! I'm sure Tyler knew that male + female = mating and babies lol.

 

[AntMan612]

Birth Control vs. Abstinence

...females will stop laying at some point in time, you don't have to make them stop...it's just something that you can do if you really don't want them to produce eggs.

Since they might be gravid for 3-4 months after only one mating, it might be better to use the cooling technique as long as the associated risks of lower temperatures (improper digestion) is not worse than the risks of being gravid (e.g., egg binding). Either way, I think extra attention is required.