New breeding year (when to start)

[imbrad2003]

Hi everyone, I am new to the breeding of leo's. I have been collecting some beautiful animals over the last year and a half and I have been growing them up to breeding size animals. Just looking for some advice, when do you start the introduction of the male to the females, what month? I house all of my animals individually and would like to control the outcomes so I know which hets I will get, so I will be using the male to the female introduction then substituting the hide for a laying box. Any other advice would be great.

I will be making double hets (Blizzard x Albino) for Blazing Blizzard.
I have 100% hets breeding to produce Diablo Blanco.
I will also be breeding for double hets (Raptor x Blazing Blizzard) for Diablo Blanco.

 

[acpart]

I put my male/female groups together last week. It's likely that your females aren't ovulating yet. You could try introducing them any time now but if you prefer to let the male overnight with the female and then separate them, you may have to introduce them several times before anything happens. I leave my males and females together for the season. No one is ovulating. One of the 3 males is tail rattling but getting no takers. The others don't look too interested, but they usually don't show overt mating behavior when I'm around (but the females do lay fertile eggs so I'm not worried).

Good luck

Aliza

 

[ImBooBy]

I leave them together all year and already got eggs and more forming so I believe its about the breeding season to start. Have your geckos been cooled? I cool my females in november and turned heat back up recently. My "hets"/morph outcome is very controlled still. I know which males go with which and tubs on the racks are labeled. I can tell which female laid the eggs and I incubate eggs of each female in a different containers.

 

[paintedlizards]

Ditto to ImBooBy....

mine have been paired up and tested out for ovulation already... we have three successful pregnancies and im setting up to put my males back in with the girls later on today.

I have one very agressive breeder, but 'his' female is def. ovulating so heres to not losing atail this year too !