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can corn and leo eggs be in the same incubator? I am expecting my female to lay in 3 weeks and the leos are laying now. I have the temp at 84 now. What would be a good temp for both of them?

Josh

Incubating leopard geckos at 88 degrees will give you males, 80-82 degrees will give you females, and 83-87 will give you a mixture of both. When I used to raise geckos I would start breeding them in December and incubate those eggs at 88 degrees until my snakes had eggs, then drop the temps to 82 degrees, that way I had male geckos for sure. 82 degrees is what I prefer for my snake eggs, so from there on out I had a bunch of female geckos.

So yes you can incubate them together, but keep the incubator below 84 degrees for the safety of your snake eggs.

Kerby...

Well, I have been incubating both my leo and corn eggs in the same incubator trying to keep temps around 82-84 range with 70% humidity and using the "paper towel humidity detector" trick.

corn eggs have been GREAT!

so far I've lost 2/4 eggs I've attempted and the two I have in there right now show considerable shrinkage (and I assume death). I don't know why my leo eggs keep going bad. My corn eggs are beautiful, plump, white, and show no signs of mold or anything (with the exception of one "good egg" going bad with mold and slime)...

since the corn eggs are doing so well I assume its not the incubator and that you can do both...

however since I have not successfully hatched any leo eggs (and technically not any corn eggs either) I can't say

sorry to take up your time, but my opinion is that you can do both in the same, everyone around here prefers 82F

that is: 2/4 leo eggs have gone bad

only 1 of 15 corn eggs has gone "bad"