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Does anyone cycle the leos before breeding???

and if you do seperate the male from the female....how would you go about it???

any suggestions???

Actually cycling leos is fairly easily done. Some say you don't need to I always have! You MUST not feed them for the 2 weeks before cooling them to clear their gut of food. After the two weeks start dropping the temperatures a couple of degrees every other day until you get to 75 degrees in the day with 65 degrees at night. I do this for 6 weeks, bring them out by increasing a couple of degrees every other day. I have had great results with this. I do seperate males from females during the cooling season.

Mike
Leopards
1.4 Super Hypo Tangerine Carrotails
3.10 Tremper Albino Jungles/ Hets
Fat Tails
0.2 Amels
1.2 Het Amel
1.9 Normals

1.1 Viper Tails (Teratolepis Fasciata)
1.3 Crested geckos
3 poison dart frogs, 1 diamond back terrapin, and 14 snakes.

at 75 degrees, my leopards still want to eat and I feed them one cricket every 3 days just to make sure they're digesting them properly. Sometimes they refuse the crickets, but I figure if they're still active at 75 degrees they should be eating. I've separated them from the males this year so that I can keep the females together and really give their enclosures a serious disinfectant cleaning with time to air out before rebuilding the colonies. I've been told it makes it easier to switch females between the colonies when you break them up for winter cooling.
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