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We are trying to breed sikorae, but it is not such an easy task. For the females to lay eggs, they need to have a diet with high levels of calcium. This is a bit tricky. We dust our crickets with calcium powder, but by the time the geckos eat them, the crickets don't have much calcium on them, either from crawling around the cage and climbing through the substrate, or from getting wet from the mistings. I have heard that land snails are a great source of calcium, but once put into the enclosure, they hide and there is no way to tell if the geckos have gotten to eat any of them. We have 2 breeding pairs of sikorae, and 3 babies so far. Getting them to lay is the first hurdle, getting the eggs to hatch is the second. We have yet to find an ideal way to incubate so the eggs hatch. We got the first 2 to hatch wiithout an incubator, just like a crested egg, but now in the cooler months, this isn't working. We finally purchased an incubator, and hatched 3 more eggs, but the last hurdle is keeping the hatchlings alive, They are not as hardy as cresteds, and only live on insects, so if they are too weak to hunt, they starve. Which has happened to 2 in the last few months. Right now we are working on keeping the ones that are surviving happy and healthy. Hopefully in the future we will get it right and get alot of good eggs that hatch into healthy babies that can make it on their own.
We've actually got one that has a crooked back, that everyone told us probably wouldn't survive, but he's still alive and kicking, and just as active and healthy as his clutchmate! He's already 5 months old, so I'd say that's was past the worrisome stage.
We've actually got one that has a crooked back, that everyone told us probably wouldn't survive, but he's still alive and kicking, and just as active and healthy as his clutchmate! He's already 5 months old, so I'd say that's was past the worrisome stage.
