My lizards cages are in the mid 80s daytime, when the basking shuts they lower to about 74f, I don’t remember but I think this is a little wormer then yours? I know for sure that my basking are more hot then yours. The reason food vary so much from one keeper to the other is all about metabolism, its possible that in my cages my lizard digestion is faster then in your cages, a faster metabolism will brake down the food much faster and in the same time create gas (why the bloating) from here on I have the choice to reduce my temps (witch I don’t want) or to adjust my diet (in this sense crickets work)



Of course you have great success and your animals are doing excellent, this was never an issue, my question to you is, if I ever shorten my dragons incubation by halve 60-70 days range, will you be tempted to try?



My opinion is not personal, I just think that your incubation is on the edge of diapauses, this means it’s at the lowest possible time, any lower and the eggs stop development.

The eggs iv just opened really shows this to be true, if you think about it, other eggs have been incubated at higher temps and they did hatch faster, the problem was viability, and this can be attributed to other factors but temps.



rgds

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