Male:Female ratio in breeding groups

[Tony C]

How many females can a male Leo be reasonably expected to breed? For my main group next season I want to group a male RAPTOR with four females, three Eclipse poss het Tremper and a Patternless Stripe het RAPTOR, is this too large of a group, or should they be successful?

 

[MiamiLeos]

sounds good to me, i wouldnt go larger than a 1:5 ratio though.

 

[ReptarNDukeNukem]

To me the ideal ratio is 1:3 but never go higher than 1:5 because the male might get a broken pelvis(joke lol) but he will probably stressed out.

 

[herpencounter]

To me the ideal ratio is 1:3 but never go higher than 1:5 because the male might get a broken pelvis(joke lol) but he will probably stressed out.

You sure? :main_laugh: :main_rolleyes:

J.

 

[StatikStepz]

To me the ideal ratio is 1:3 but never go higher than 1:5 because the male might get a broken pelvis(joke lol) but he will probably stressed out.

LoL.

Dude, u can put a male with 30 females if you want (obviously not all females in the same tank, but move the male around from tank to tank), and he will be just fine. A male leopard gecko will "knock up" as many females as you put it with. He deff. won't be "stressed out" after just 5 females... maybe like 20 or 25, but deffinately not 5... he'll readily welcome 5 lady friends into his life, lol.

 

[mynewturtle]

Most of my groups are 1.4, or 1.6. Depends on the male for how many females I let him breed. If he is a smaller male I generally want him to have 1.3 or less, if he is a big proven breeder male I won't hesitate to do 1.6 - 1.10 depends on the male.

 

[spykerherps]

I would say as long as the male stays healthy and of good weight continues eating he can breed any number of females, well not any number but I would safely say 10-20 depending on how you do it. I usually only put my males in with individual females for copulation. and I have also found that the females do much better individualy. Even in small groups with 3 or 4 females or even 2 you will have a dominant female and a hierarchy. A lot of times with the females at the bottom of the totem poll not doing as well as they should with eating and weight gain between clutches. also if females are kept together and lay at the same time you may not know who the eggs belong to and if such things as deformities in the hatchlings arise it will be more difficult to pull females from your breeding projects.

For example
I had a line of trempers a few years back that after one of the females third breeding season she developed what was like a hernia with her eggs and then became egg bound. shortly after I ended up losing two of her daughters to similar egg problems. needles to say I stopped breeding anything related to that female tremper.

 

[Tony C]

Great, thanks everyone.

 

[Imperial Geckos]

with my fat tail geckos i do a 1.1 ratio..i just cycle the male around like i would do with ball pythons..and so far all the female that have been with males are ovulating and doing great.

 

[adam&nikki]

right now i have a 1:1 and a 1:3 next year they will be both 1:3 when my new ones get to be breeding size