what does your breeder cage look like?

[macksnow82]

Show me some pic of the cage your are going to use to breed your leopard geckos in and every thing you have in it please.and is a colony sonmething you keep going year round like all the geckos together for the whole year and not before breeding season and after a little bit after.

I have 1 super snow male 83g and 2 macksnow females 52g 61g
and 3 normal females 50g 62g 47g and i keep them all ear round together would that be a colony i been keping them together for 3-4 years and been geting tons of eggs from them and some of them would be infertile but most were good. but what does your best breeder tank look like i will put some pics up when i see my bro and use his cam.

 

[OneFootedAce]

Most breeders use rack systems and not tanks. Today I plan on building a rack, so when Im done Ill post a pic for ya.

 

[macksnow82]

i am using a rack system. i have a 180 gal. tub with proper heat and everything i have 2 water dishes and 2 calcium dishes and 3 mealworm dishis and i have a feeder rock for crickets but they dont use it alot only to climb on at night i have heat emiters and every things on a thermomiders i am making another colony as we speak with 1male.5females geckos i also have 24 baby geckos to care for and i am selling them at a expo at my dads freinds spot next to his snakes and spiders

 

[neubauer geckos]

what expo?

 

[macksnow82]

repticon in jacksonville florida

 

[macksnow82]

1 time a year

 

[Taquiq]

Most breeders use rack systems and not tanks. Today I plan on building a rack, so when Im done Ill post a pic for ya.

I'm planning on building a rack on Sunday. :main_yes:

 

[OneFootedAce]

I'm planning on building a rack on Sunday. :main_yes:

ah cool! i just finished mine =]

 

[Taquiq]

ah cool! i just finished mine =]

Congrats! :main_laugh::blush:

 

[T-ReXx]

Generally it's not a good idea to keep leos together in breeding groups year round. Females need down time to recover as laying eggs takes a lot of energy and they need to regain weight and recover from stress without a male constantly pestering them. Also, not all females will get along, so you need to always be prepared to seperate in that case. Although there are instances when it works out, generally, leopard geckos do best kept singly except for during breeding.

That being said, my geckos are housed in rack systems built out of 3/4" mdf. Each adult is kept in a 15 quart rubbermaid cleverstore bin, with the exception of breeding females, who are housed in compatible pairs in 28 qt sterlite boxes with a male rotating in every 3 weeks during the season. During the off season everyone returns to their individual 15 quarts to rest. Hatchlings are housed in pairs in sterilite shoe boxes until they reach 10 grams(or one is larger than the other whichever comes first) and then they are housed individually in 12 qt sterilite boxes until they are either sold or reach adult size(50g) and graduate to 15 qts. All of my racks are heated by 3" flexwatt run by 1500 watt capacity Johnson's thermostats.
Each adult box contains 3 dishes, one with calcium without d3, one water, and one dish for feeders. There is also a humid hide(gladware box) with coco fiber and a smaller dry hide(smaller gladware box) over the heat source. Substrate is paper towels.

 

[Misstasha]

i use a rack system kind of, i have three aquariums on a shelf they are 20-30 gallon tanks laying on their side, so theres a lot more ground space. i have a 1:2 ratio in each breeding tank, and I leave them in with the males until I'm done breeding them.

 

[jumper]

Tanks on their sides.....good idea....I assume they open from the front now?

 

[Misstasha]

open from the top (which is now on their sides ) heres some recent photos:

heres the lids i used :

 

[jermh1]

wow tanks on their sides, I should have thought of that. great Idea, im going to hook one up tomorrow. Ive got 6 20 high tanks laying around.

 

[Misstasha]

niiice!!!! have fun building and make sure you post