Nothing like a little encouragement-

[nicks]

I opened up the incubator and found 20 baby geckos walking around yesterday morning with this one working her way out. She is a little blazing blizzard with her two albino and one normal sibling with her.

Here she is after I pulled the others our.

This is a little male tang, he only had his head our when I found him but by the time I had my camera out he had almost fully emerged.

Nick
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[Kristi23]

Very cool pics! Congrats!!!

 

[bitterbeauty]

Wow 20? I would have jumped up and down and then paniced! lol

Congrats

 

[fallen_angel]

^^^ LOL same here I am just very curious and don't mean this in any bad kind of way.. With that many eggs together, how do you not have problems with hatchlings turning the eggs? I am just wondering because we had 6 eggs together once, and only one baby hatched at the time. He turned all of the eggs over, and of the remainging five eggs, only 3 made it

Awesome pics nonetheless!

 

[gage]

awsome lol 20 in one day how many leos do you got

 

[nicks]

We produce a lot of geckos and we normally keep about 10 eggs per cup. If you mark the eggs so you know which side is up it is easy to turn the eggs back right side up after pulling out any that have hatched. We wouldn't have room to incubate them if we only did two per cup. The only time to panic is when ordering crickets we have baby geckos almost every day with the most in one day being 28. I don't know how many we have at this point LOL.

 

[Halley]

That's pretty cool! How do you know which baby hatched from which egg?

 

[fallen_angel]

We produce a lot of geckos and we normally keep about 10 eggs per cup. If you mark the eggs so you know which side is up it is easy to turn the eggs back right side up after pulling out any that have hatched. We wouldn't have room to incubate them if we only did two per cup. The only time to panic is when ordering crickets we have baby geckos almost every day with the most in one day being 28. I don't know how many we have at this point LOL.

I see, we did mark our eggs and re-positioned them.. there was also a lot of temp. fluctuation when this happened to us, so perhaps that is what hurt our eggs, rather than the actual turning incident. I wasn't sure which problem it was, or if it was both. But so it seems like eggs can get turned and really not have too many problems as long as they are found soon enough. Thanks

 

[paulnj]

my 20 a day season is over, but I am glad someone is getting the fun of

" awesome, great, hit those odds, ......... oh great, where will I put these"

Nice images and congrats

 

[nicks]

Thans everyone!

We breed all of our geckos in groups of 1.4 with the females all being genetically the same. So when we pull eggs all the eggs from one colony will go into one container. That way we know what should come from each group. Which is why it we spend a lot of time planning our breeding groups for the next season.

 

[MSMD]

Wow! Congrats! Great pics!

 

[fallen_angel]

Thans everyone!

We breed all of our geckos in groups of 1.4 with the females all being genetically the same. So when we pull eggs all the eggs from one colony will go into one container. That way we know what should come from each group. Which is why it we spend a lot of time planning our breeding groups for the next season.

I must say, this has shown to be a very hard and challenging thing for us; deciding what we plan to really do the following seasons. I have read that no breeding group should breed for more than two or three years straight; and so figuring out who to breed, along with how long they can breed, has become a challenge. Who has already bred and needs a year off after next year? What can we breed the year that those certain ones need a year off? What can be planned to the point that the ends justify the means? One can only stay on track when the track is actually found...

 

[Kristi23]

Jess, I'm not sure how this would work with a lot of females, but as long as you know who laid the eggs, you can put the initial on the egg. I keep mine separated by who laid them, but I still put the initial from their name on the top of the egg. If a lot are hatching at the same time, it probably wouldn't work.