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I know this has been posted before but I am very interested in what breeders experiences are in this area. Any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
-Randy
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AlphaDragonZ
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I have noticed a great possibily for TDSD. More males in one incubator thats like two degrees higher or lower or anything similar happens all the time for me. What I find cool is that when I get big clutches that take up two tuperware, lots of times one tuperware hatches before the other by almost a day. But now that I have an air circulation system in my incuabtor, I notice less of this. I usually have more males in each clutch than females on an average. What have you experienced?

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AlphaDragonZ
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I don't have a lot of info on this yet but I have kept my incubator set at 85. It is in a room that got pretty warm in the spring before my A/C got turned on. There were a few days where the incubator got up to 90. I would open the doors and had a fan circulating air through it. So far 6 out of the first 7 to shed appear to be females and the rest of the clutch at least appear to be predominately female. They are only 5-6 weeks old so I am not positive on those high numbers but males are usually pretty easy to pick out. I have had excellent hatch rates but I was concerned with how warm the incubator stayed this spring. I have two other clutches between a couple days and two weeks old so it will be interesting to see if the high female count continues.

Mike
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I also agree to a good possibility that this exists. I have had the opportunity to hatch out beardies and then raise them to adults and the higher temps (84-85) do seem to make a clutch more female heavy.

I kept my incubators in the 84 - 86 range & mine were all good mixes. I didn't see any clutch with a significant amount of either sex. I also know someone who even keeps it a little higher, trying to expedite the hatching & they too have good mixes of the sexes.

There are a lot of people breeding these guys now & I would think there would be a lot more females available by now if that were the case. After all, most people want females & the value is higher on them. Why wouldn't everyone be doing it by now?????

Just my thoughts & experience.

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