I've been seeing a LOT of contradictory information on this subject, so I thought I would pose the question and see what people had to say on it in one place.
I've seen that several folks have recommended that if you want to maximize fertility in the clutches laid by your females, you leave the male with them while breeding. Females are said to produce eggs whether a male is present or not. I've seen this personally, as well.
However, other people have said that you should remove the male after the first clutch is laid, allowing the female to use stored sperm for subsequent clutches. When she runs out, she will stop producing eggs for a while, allowing her to recoup her losses from breeding, before you reintroduce the male. These folks claim the male's presence will stimulate the female to continue producing more and more eggs.
My question is, will a female leopard gecko produce X number of eggs in a season regardless of the presence of a male, or does the presence of the male indeed stimulate her to produce more eggs than she otherwise would? Does removing the male have a highly detrimental effect on the fertility of subsequent clutches? How many clutches does a female lay in an average season, and how does that season end--by her simply ceasing to lay, or through some action taken by the breeder?
