How is your 09 season going?

[Baoh]

Banded RAPTOR - 2.54g

 

[justindh1]

I have 17 eggs in the incubator right now and only one has hatched. It was the first egg and it poped out at 45 days at 85 degrees, a hypo-snow. Two eggs are going bad and i believe the other 4 from the same female are gonna go bad too, just look it. They are still plump but tunred kinda tannish yellow. I'm hoping that it was cause of the coco fiber i used for the laying box. She was over fifty grams when breed but was still a little thing.

 

[acpart]

I'm hoping we can keep this thread alive through the main part of the breeding season to see how it compares to last season. At the moment I have about 33 eggs in the incubator from 6 leopard gecko females and 1 or 2 (I suspect only 1) coleonyx. I calculate that about 70% of all the eggs laid to date are good so far. I have hatched 4 coleonyx and 4 leopard geckos. One leo has one deformed eye but is doing well. Between Friday and yesterday I got 10 eggs! In about 2 weeks I should start getting hatchlings every few days. I'll keep you posted. Things could still go wrong, but this is feeling better than last season for me.

Aliza

 

[MSMD]

My season is starting out OK. One of the eggs out of the first clutch went bad earlier on. The first hatchling for the year (the remaining egg from that clutch) is a lovely possible Giant/Super Giant solid-eyed Raptor . I've had 3-4 bad eggs or slugs so far. I've gotten about 40+ eggs (?) so far. Out of the first 9 hatchlings so far, 3 had deformities and didn't make it. 2 clutchmates had eyelid deformities and I had the first jaw deformity I've ever had. The upper mandible was hardly existant on the poor little thing. It passed away shortly after hatching, fortunately. The deformed babies I do believe were the incubator containers that got bumped and eggs everywhere, though.....

We shall see about the remaing 40+ eggs and I still have girls that have just started laying.....so lots more to go! :yes:

 

[Baoh]

The first hatchling for the year (the remaining egg from that clutch) is a lovely possible Giant/Super Giant solid-eyed Raptor .

Sweet. What was its weight at hatching?

 

[Jenn]

I have 2 eggs doing very good and ready to hatch any day. I missed one clutch and it dried up, 3 eggs went bad and I have 4 that were just laid a few days ago so im waiting to see how those are doing.

 

[Neill]

First time breeding and first time breedERS. 4 eggs 2 molded and 2 deflated so nothing yet. Have my male in with my 2 girls so we will c this time around if any luck.

 

[lillith]

I'm still waiting for my eggs!!!
:cry2:

I just know she'll lay when I go to my friends' wedding this weekend, I just KNOW IT!

Has anyone ever had to leave for two days with impending eggs?
Is there anything I can do to the laybox to make them safe, just-in-case?

(besides praying and positive visualization?)

I was thinking of setting up 3 boxes, one with vermiculite, one with moss, one with coco fibers...is that crazy?

 

[acpart]

If I'm going away and expecting eggs I move my lay box to the warm side figuring that inside the lay box it won't be as hot as on the floor of the tank.

Aliza

 

[ang3l3s]

4 eggs, 2 molded and 1 deflated, still more on the way, hope i don't lose anymore!!!

 

[malik454]

im waiting for mine to lay

 

[acpart]

As of this afternoon I'm up to 6 leopard gecko hatchlings and 4 coleonyx hatchlings.

Aliza

 

[shadowx362]

Well....I was "superpose to" hatch out 8 geckos this past weekend, BUT only 3 hatched....the rest died sometime during development
thats not the worst part....two of the three had to be put down due to no eye lids.
Last weekend two of 4 eggs hatched and the two that hatched have minor eye lid deformities as well.
I am almost certain the meal worm issue has not been fixed:main_angry:. A lot of these eggs are from proven breeders who i NEVER had a problem with in the last two seasons I've bred them. Not one deformity until now. This is ridiculous!
I guess I'll have to go back to noisy crickets, but I guess it was too good to be true, well at least for me.
I still have 20 eggs in the bator so I hope at least half make it.
On a side note, the ones who have hatched with out a problem are gorgeous!
So I guess thats 35 bad eggs of 65 eggs laid this season, all from different projects.

 

[Baoh]

Well....I was "superpose to" hatch out 8 geckos this past weekend, BUT only 3 hatched....the rest died sometime during development
thats not the worst part....two of the three had to be put down due to no eye lids.
Last weekend two of 4 eggs hatched and the two that hatched have minor eye lid deformities as well.
I am almost certain the meal worm issue has not been fixed:main_angry:. A lot of these eggs are from proven breeders who i NEVER had a problem with in the last two seasons I've bred them. Not one deformity until now. This is ridiculous!
I guess I'll have to go back to noisy crickets, but I guess it was too good to be true, well at least for me.
I still have 20 eggs in the bator so I hope at least half make it.
On a side note, the ones who have hatched with out a problem are gorgeous!
So I guess thats 35 bad eggs of 65 eggs laid this season, all from different projects.

It would potentially be a simple matter to determine if only someone knowing the chemical identity of the contaminant would name it.

 

[Zynx_Keekeio]

I have 1 denty fertile egg, but i wouldn't consider myself a "breeder" more a hobbyiest.

 

[acpart]

I guess I'm about 1/3 to 1/2 way through the season and I can now say that for some reason this is the best yet. As of tonight I've hatched 23 leopard geckos and 5 banded geckos. The leopard geckos are from 5 breeders. I have about 48 eggs in the incubator, mostly leos,but a few bandeds and 3 AFT's. Last season about 60% of my eggs went bad, but I hatched a season high 41 geckos. I think I'm on pace to hatch at least 60 leos this season.

I am doing a few things differently. It may not make a difference, since I know there are people who have done nothing different and are having a worse time this season. Here's what I've changed:
--incubator set at 82 instead of 80 and there seems to be less temp fluctuation
--large zip loc of water in the incubator instead of a small cup of water
--geckos supplemented with Repashy's calcium plus instead of rep cal and herptivite
--perlite dumped and re-filled after each container's eggs hatch

I hope things go well for everyone else also.

Aliza

 

[Sidviciouser]

~21 hatched and healthy
2 preemie - doing well
~8 infertile
~8 lost due to rookie mistakes

2 ladies still laying

Highlights:
Mack Super Snow Albino
Mack Snow Albino
Super Hypo Mack Snow (i think)
SHTCT
Tremp albinos
Jungle

I hope everyones season goes well!

 

[lindy]

Last year was my first season with one first year female(jungle tremper) X normal het tremper. she laid four eggs out of those four two had "problems" (tremper and normal)and the other two were great(trempers).

This year I have a first year female normal about 2 years old with the same male as above. She is on her 5th clutch and I have hatched out four so far. 3 snows i believe(grey with black bands) and one high yellow all healthy and screaming.
Hopefully towards the middle of summer i will have two more girls bred (the ones from last years clutch)to my raptor and hopefully get some raptors next year.

I feed roaches as my main staple with an occasional mealworm or super worm.
Last year i feed mostly mealworms with some roaches and suppers.

I also have my incubator up to 85 as less temp changes if lower since we dont have air contioning and the house gets up to 85 degrees during the day.

 

[ElapidSVT]

season is going great. i'm using vermiculite for the laying and incubation medium. i have been reusing the same vermiculite all season in the laying boxes and have not changed the vermiculite in the incubation containers. most eggs have hatched on schedule, only 3 culls this season and minimal egg loss during incubation.

it's been a great season so far and only halfway through!
w00t

 

[acpart]

I started this thread back in April in the hopes that my season and others' as well would be better than last year. My last leopard gecko egg hatched this morning, though I still have 2 more coleonyx eggs cooking and don't know for sure that they've stopped. I have been pleasantly surprised at how well things went with the leopards; if anything I'm going to have a chore selling the offspring.

Here are my stats:

92 eggs laid by 6 females
75 live hatches (about an 85% hatch rate!)
72 surviving hatchlings including 3 with very mild deformities

In addition, I hatched 4 of 8 AFT eggs, and 12 coleonyx out of about 36 eggs.

I hope other people have been fortunate this season.

ALiza