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watts501
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just got home and found my first fat hatch of the season!!yayay 
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Just A Beginner
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Congrats!  Any chance we could see some photos of the wee bairn soon?
Was this an albino x het albino mating? Did you get an albino or a wild type?
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watts501
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it was with a amel male and het female!and guess which why it went NOT AN AMEL!!  all well plenty more chances!lovely tho!will post a pic at weekend if get chance!
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Still nice to have one hatch Matt, what about its clutch mate, might get lucky with that one. 
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Jase,
For some reason I seem to struggle with fat-tails. I can get plenty of eggs, but always fail with incubation. They're almost like my jinx species or something. I think that stubborness is the only reason I still have them.
I thought they might be too humid during incubation, but if I reduce it too much they collapse...I've tried vermiculite and 'natural' substrates like soil/bark chips etc.
This year I'm trying humid for the first few weeks and then reducing humidity in the latter stages...
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mark_w
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Sorry,
forgot to say, this is with WC and CB, all normals, I'm sure its not a genetic thing.
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matty
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | just got home and found my first fat hatch of the season!!yayay |
congratulations! can't wait for pics.
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| Quote: | | I thought they might be too humid during incubation, but if I reduce it too much they collapse...I've tried vermiculite and 'natural' substrates like soil/bark chips etc. |
I thought that too. The eggs always seemed to be a bit slimy and wet looking/to the touch, but if I let it get a bit dryer the egg shell condition improves as the egg interior suffers. I've tried vermiculite and sphagnum, but I thought the sphag was awful!!
I'm currently trying a wee method sparked by these observations.
I'm cutting the bottoms of sankey peat pots and putting those over my eggs. The idea behind it is to keep the air humidity around the eggs high without having very wet substrate. My vermiculite is pretty dry in comparison to the usual soak-&-squeeze-dry formula. When I check the 'bator, I look at the colour of the peat pot, putting water on it if it has become the paler brown, 'I'm drying out' colour.
So far so good. I'm halfway through the incubation of one pair of eggs, and so far they have both been and stayed perfect. Very nice and turgid but dryer to the touch. I'm sure the moulds that claim eggs develop better on the slimy egg surfaces when the media is wet.
I was planning on keeping this to myself untill I was certain it was having a positive effect on egg viability. But this topic has brought it up for me
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Jas
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Thanks for posting up Mark, interesting to hear your getting those results from CB and WC, like the other thread about Ackie eggs i dont think this is about incubation of the eggs as some fail just too quick. Would be good to hear from some other breeders of these gecko's. Scott, how are you getting on with yours?
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Mmm interesting thread jason, last year i had 2 hatch succesfully from 30 plus eggs (all normals) just put it down to a bad year 
So far this year i have had 12 clutches since the end of jan.some of these are hets. and all i have left that look viable are 2 eggs 
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