Incubation Question

[cooter]

I have heard females have been moved to male temp to speed the hatch. I am just curious if anyone has moved their male eggs after 3-4 weeks to a cooler female temp?

 

[cooter]

No replies? lol

 

[cooter]

I guess nobody has done it or can answer lol

 

[malt_geckos]

I know that sex is determined in the first 3 weeks...Many people raise the temp once the female sex is determined, to make the colors brighter in the female. I am not sure about making the eggs hatch faster. I breed angelfish as well and I keep the temp high to have a quicker hatch. It may be the same thing with leos. If the temp is turned up past 91 degrees, there can be fatality or "hot" females (females that are acting like males-may be infertile or too agressive to breed)

 

[Pro Geckos]

I would highly recommend not moving eggs either way. Leo eggs should remain at a consistent temp through the entire incubation period. Inconsistent or spikes in temps can kill embryos or cause deformities with hatchlings.

 

[Stitch]

To answer the original question, there is no point to take a male incubated egg and then move it to female temps. This will just cause it longer to hatch.

When it comes to colors and incubation temps, this only becomes an issue when you are working with tremper albinos. No other morph has this issue.

And ditto on what Pro Geckos said.

 

[Baysidegeckos]

Matter of Fact i do, With Females, i keep them in the Female Incubator for a month instead of three just to make sure they are temp sex for Female them move them to the male incubator for the remainder of the time. Some say it causes deformities but out of 200 eggs i got 1 deformed gecko, it was a mack snow and its tail was shorter, but it was not because of being moved from 1 incubator to another!

 

[Baysidegeckos]

But i do it with my albino female as well for the brighter colors and plus i dont like the Brown albinos!

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Moving eggs from a higher temeprature incubation to a lower temperature will make them take longer to hatch, otherwise there is no purpose in doing so.

 

[Baysidegeckos]

I move from Female incubator to male incubator, from lower temp to high temp.

 

[cooter]

Lots of people seem to move female temp to higher temp to speed up process! Would the lower female temp be safer for male eggs after 4 weeks?

 

[Stitch]

Temp spikes are dangerous to the developing fetus. I do not know if the same holds true for temp drops. As mentioned before there is NO advantage to taking male incubated eggs and then placing them in cooler temps. This will just cause them longer to hatch. By keeping them at male temps they will hatch sooner.