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I've been doing a lot of reading, and it sounds like hatching out little ones can be a lot of fun. I'm thinking about possibly trying it sometime when my little guy gets a bit bigger and older.
My summer schedule is usually full, so I would really prefer to have babies hatching mid August or later. Then I can give them my full attention. For this to happen, would June would be the best time to introduce the two leos?
I have an incubator available if it can be found. Until it is, this project will be kept on hold.
I'm not planning to make any special morphs or anything. Their morphs (so well as I can tell, since they were pet store leos, and I don't know their parents) are tangerine and bell albino. I think that this would make the babies be anything from normal to tangerine het bell.
I know he came from Ron Trempers group, and I think there's a good chance that she did too. In July, he'll be one year, and in May, she will be two. Up until she was about a year old, she was really really bright, almost neon; and almost lost all her spots. Then, I tried cooling her, and her colors dulled somewhat, and she got a lot of spots where she had had stripes as a hatchling. I was reading about how he (and some others) incubate at high temps to produce brighter colors, and wondered how likely this was in her case; or if it's only the tremper albinos that do that.
Does this mean that if I want the babies to be bright, I should incubate at higher temps (or that being a newb, I shouldn't try that kind of stuff yet; and should expect duller babies)
I only want a few babies, as I think I could easily find homes for a few. I have two large tanks divided into thirds, which could easily be divided again to make 12 hatchling set-ups, and means to heat these twelve set-ups. I don't have the thermostat or rheostat for those tanks yet . . . but if babies are on the way, I will have one before they arrive.
It sounds like people here are only counting on three clutches, maybe five from one breeding. Is this reasonable for me to expect and be prepared for? Honestly, I'd be thrilled if she just laid one or two eggs for me, because then I wouldn't have to give my babies away, but that seems like an unreasonable expectation.
To this point, she has not laid an egg. If I let her breed once, will I start her on an egg-laying cycle that will continue for the rest of her life, or should she quit laying eggs if she's not being bred. It's probably different with each leo, but what is the tendency?
What is the minimum size , and depth of peat moss that would be suggested for a good laying box?
Any thoughts, suggestions, criticisms, convincing reasons I shouldn't try this, etc. are appreciated. I want to know what to expect, and not just jump blindly into this.
These are all my questions at the moment, but unless ya'll convince me not to try this, I'll probably be back with some more before long.
My summer schedule is usually full, so I would really prefer to have babies hatching mid August or later. Then I can give them my full attention. For this to happen, would June would be the best time to introduce the two leos?
I have an incubator available if it can be found. Until it is, this project will be kept on hold.
I'm not planning to make any special morphs or anything. Their morphs (so well as I can tell, since they were pet store leos, and I don't know their parents) are tangerine and bell albino. I think that this would make the babies be anything from normal to tangerine het bell.
I know he came from Ron Trempers group, and I think there's a good chance that she did too. In July, he'll be one year, and in May, she will be two. Up until she was about a year old, she was really really bright, almost neon; and almost lost all her spots. Then, I tried cooling her, and her colors dulled somewhat, and she got a lot of spots where she had had stripes as a hatchling. I was reading about how he (and some others) incubate at high temps to produce brighter colors, and wondered how likely this was in her case; or if it's only the tremper albinos that do that.
Does this mean that if I want the babies to be bright, I should incubate at higher temps (or that being a newb, I shouldn't try that kind of stuff yet; and should expect duller babies)
I only want a few babies, as I think I could easily find homes for a few. I have two large tanks divided into thirds, which could easily be divided again to make 12 hatchling set-ups, and means to heat these twelve set-ups. I don't have the thermostat or rheostat for those tanks yet . . . but if babies are on the way, I will have one before they arrive.
It sounds like people here are only counting on three clutches, maybe five from one breeding. Is this reasonable for me to expect and be prepared for? Honestly, I'd be thrilled if she just laid one or two eggs for me, because then I wouldn't have to give my babies away, but that seems like an unreasonable expectation.
To this point, she has not laid an egg. If I let her breed once, will I start her on an egg-laying cycle that will continue for the rest of her life, or should she quit laying eggs if she's not being bred. It's probably different with each leo, but what is the tendency?
What is the minimum size , and depth of peat moss that would be suggested for a good laying box?
Any thoughts, suggestions, criticisms, convincing reasons I shouldn't try this, etc. are appreciated. I want to know what to expect, and not just jump blindly into this.
These are all my questions at the moment, but unless ya'll convince me not to try this, I'll probably be back with some more before long.
