Sorry but I disagree. I have produced way to many leopard geckoes for many years and kept them in both conditions of normal even temps and with winter cooldown to think different. They will consistently produce more eggs if you cool them. true they are not monitors but since I don't produce desert monitors I can only go by the species I work with that come from similar habitats (or the same in the case of leos and uros.). One thing about Fla. is that it is actually almost hard to acheive adeqate temps for cool down here unless you keep your animals outside or in an unheated building and even then buildings moderate the temps quite a bit even if they are unheated. With a good central air system it is actually easier to maintain things status quo than it is to cool things and like I said leos produce more eggs when cooled so if I want more eggs I cool them. These are not the only reptiles that I have that show seasonal variation here My day geckoes all go through breeding cycles according to season as do my rainbow boas and as I said before my Argentines just stop eating altogether. Theres is definitely more to it than temps and humidity.

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