How does it feel?

[Next Level Geckos]

alright, breeders, how did it feel when you saw that first hatchling hatch :main_huh:

 

[LeapinLizards]

I couldn't talk.

We were watching the Olympic games, and I (like I had done every night for months) went in to feed the other leos, and check on the egg. I opened the Hova to find a teeny tiny little black and white thing backed into a corner and just screeching at me.

I remember yelling for my husband...something like "Da..Da...Dann...Dannnyyyyy!!!!" lol. and scurrying around to find all the things I had compiled for the new baby's little tub.

That feeling got me hooked, and I'll begin my FORMAL breeding project this season

 

[paulnj]

Words can't discribe the feeling I got finding the first gecko(any animal for that matter).

Overcome with joy and excitement to say the least. I still get that feeling to be honest.

 

[supperl]

Like hot applepie^^ noo just a joke it is awsome and if your first one gave you a MSB indeat of a Bell with a 50%50 you are already much more happy^^

 

[shadowx362]

Well It was an amazing thing to watch, to say the least! It was just so entrancing that my eyes were glued to the baby coming out! I remember getting all exited and thinking "Wow, I cant belive I hatched a gecko!!!!!............" You know its very hard to describe, maybe how you feel when your about to go on a roller coaster. The stomach tingling feeling.

That is how I remember it, and it happens every so often still

 

[Sturt]

I wasn't expecting to see it when I did. I opened the box to find one hatched and scurrying around and one halfway out of the egg. I let the other one finish, and attempted to move them to the rearing container.......


AND THEY SCARED THE BEJESUS OUTTA ME!

NOTHING prepares you for your first screech.

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

After having literally every one of my first eggs fail over several months, when I opened the incubator and saw two little black and yellow babies, I held the deli cup in my hands, sat on the floor, and cried like a baby with joy.

 

[Lady_Kiya]

I am excited to start breeding myself. ^^

 

[dprince]

It's one of the most amazing feelings in the world. I was excited beyond belief, and amazed that I had played a tiny part in bringing this gecko into the world. :main_yes:

 

[lillith]

The way I described it to my dad:
"It's like having a plant seedling that was struggling suddenly thrive and bloom, times a hundred. It's like Christmas felt when I was 5 years old and everyone was there and I got the My Little Pony Show Stable."

You really can't describe it properly, I don't think. Awe, relief, amazement, joy, elation, anxiety all rolled into one. But mostly joy. I mean, you know you didn't do it *all* yourself (since you can't lay gecko eggs, lol), but it is quite captivating and enthralling to know you helped something "become".

For me, I went to go check on the eggs, and when I saw the first egg, I thought, "oh god, it's collapsed!! No wait!!! It's empty...where's the baby? OMG THERE IT IS!!!

And y'all can see my annoying first baby post elsewhere around here, if you look.

 

[geckoboy16]

after coming home from a weeks vacation, i looked into the incubator to check the temperature. I see two little orange geckos looking up at me. I was so excited and immediately took pics of them lol.

 

[rubym]

I was amazed. It was 4:00 am and my husband was getting ready to go to work and as always he checked our egg and yelled for me to get up. I would have been mad to have been woken up 3 hours earlier then I had to be but under the circumstances, I got over it fast. I was surprised that he was 5 grams. The egg seems so small to have something so large come out of it. #22 was just as exciting for me as #1 was. I am ready to start a new season....I think.

 

[Gregg M]

The first time I woke up to a cage full of baby gaboons I was like, "oh crap, how am I going to get all of these thing out of the cage and how am I going to feed them all??" LOL...
But the first time I seen a baby leo hatch, it was a really good feeling... Leos were the first reptiles I bred that needed to be incubated... It is always a great feeling to know you did something right... Hundreds of hatchlings later it is still a great feeling...

 

[Lena]

I was leaping around like a school girl calling everyone into my room to watch my geckos mate.. Imagine what my reaction will be when the eggs come.. And then when they hatch!

I'm so excited.. This thread isn't helping!!