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chris_harper2
at Thu Jun 17 10:20:46 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by chris_harper2 ]
Hi Terry,
I'll read your message again later... I'm multi-tasking at the moment.
At any rate, a friend of mine has a female Gonyosoma that produces about two fertile clutches per year. Like a lot of us he has had trouble with egg incubation, specifically trouble with hatchlings being able to hatch from the thick, hard eggs.
These troubles ocurred with temps that resulted in incubation temps of 100 days or so. He was using a pretty fancy incubator.
With a more recent clutch he incubated the eggs on a lower shelf in his reptile room. The temperatures flucuated around slightly around 78*.
At around 100 days the eggs started to develop visible areas that were thin and soft.
At about 130 days the hatchlings successfully hatched on their own from these areas. His hatch rate was as high as it's ever been with Gonyosoma.
So perhaps the incubation problems with Gonyosoma et. al. are not resultant of too low, but rather too high incubation temperatures.
My friend keeps a fairly low profile. I'll try to clarify this information if not get him to post here himself.
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brief anecdote... - chris_harper2, Thu Jun 17 10:20:46 2004