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I had a successful breeding season having 6 babies to 1 female and 1 male(was my wmale 6 months old, and the female was an owner of a pet store's). All the babies lives and grew up to about 3 montyhs in the tank with the male and female. Now i decided to breed geckos on my own, with my male and my female(i bought her areound the time after i sold all the babies). about a year later the geckos were mating, and shes laid 2 eggs. I marked them and incubated them,(didnt candle them :S), and they dies. the next 2 she laid(the last 2) i didnt caldle jsut marked and incubated them, they lived. one day befopre i waw goin to bed i checked on the eggs and one of them had a tiny hold in it. the next mornign when i woke up the 1 still had a tiny hole and the other 1 was half out of the egg, both geckos were dead. any suggestions for next time? (the first time i bred my gecko with the petstores we jsut left them alone in the tank with the mom and dad for the whole time)

Unfourtunately, that's the way it goes sometimes. Just make sure you have a nice consistant temp and humidity that doesn't fluctuate too much. Also, if the female is small (under 40-45 grams) or has some other medical condition, it can lead to more infertile eggs.

>> "the first time i bred my gecko with the petstores we jsut
>> left them alone in the tank with the mom and dad for the
>> whole time)"
It'd be damn near impossible to keep constant temp and humidity in that situation, plus the other adults or feeders would disrupt the eggs... not a good idea for leopard geckos. Plus when they hatch they could very easily be intimidated (if not eaten) by the adults in the cage.

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Brian Skibinski
Brian@MilwaukeeReptiles.com
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ya the first time i brew my male, we weerent breeding them, we were sjut expirimating with them, and then liek a few months later i noticed some eggs, and decided to read up and learn some more, and then i went to the petstore to check up on them and there was 6 little babies running around with the mom and dad. they were fine so we left them in there for a couple months then sold them. but when i trie to do it the right way(incubate them(next batch different female)) they lived until they had to hatch, one made it half out of the egg, and the other only got a hole made

Yup... it happens. also could be a first year female (I have a female that gave me 6 sets of infertile eggs before giving one good set at the end of the season). not much you can do about it other than keep trying.
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Brian Skibinski
Brian@MilwaukeeReptiles.com
WYSIWYG

o ok guess i gotta jsut keep trying, check the pics of the tank i posted, with the gecko pics

Next time, you shouldn't hatch and raise babies in the same tank with the parents. You're VERY lucky the first babies didn't get eaten.
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