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Ive been trying to get my female to lay eggs for sometime now. I had her laying eggs but they came out infertile. My question is can anyone give me some tips on Temps/Humidity to either get my male interested in her or for her to maybe lay me some good eggs? ATM she is about 1.5 inches round.... (could she be gravid, about 2wice the width of male). Also any substrate that people are useing would help me alot... Think mine might be little dry. THX in advance

my female lineatus is the same way. i keep two males in with here and they are always doing their " courtship" rituals and stuff however she always lays infertile eggs and is always way larger than the males. no tips from me because i'm having the same problems. just thought i'd let you know that you weren't alone

I have 1:1 lineatus, and about 2 months ago my female laid two eggs that looked perfectly fertile. At the time, I had sand as a sunstrate, and she burried them half way in the sand. I figured my incubator would be too warm if I turned it on, so I put them in the incubator(inside a deli cup. The eggs sat in a milk cap that sat on top of a moist sponge), but didnt plug the incubator on. The eggs have been around 68-70 the whole time. both eggs sort of dimpled then looked like there might be a hairline crack in them caused by the dimpling (I didnt know at the time that you could possibly use clear nail polish on the cracks)I think they may have gotten too dry, but not sure. Both eggs did increase in size though. It has been a few days over two months. One egg is starting to slightly turn brown (just slightly), and the other one is still white. I almost definately dont expext the one turning color to hatch, and Im not sure about the other, but, Im not going to give up. The female looks like she is gravid again, but I changed the substrate to spanish moss, so, well see what happens.

try giving them bromeliads and increasing the relative humidity. according to some people i have talked to with lineatus, they lay their eggs inbeteween the leaves of plants above ground and leave them there well hidden.i would also recomend using a uv bulb on your uroplatus. maybe adding a 25 watt uv basking light might help them lay more fertile eggs. one thing i do for my phantasticus eggs is i treat them just like the adults same as juviniles. what type opf supplement do you use? do you gut load your crickets? sometimes the smallest change can have the biggest impact.

Hey, well feeding isnt the issue (gutload and powder my crix) gonna give that UVB bulb a try.. got an extra one laying around from my chams. BTW any idea what temps they keep theirs at? Ive heard up in the 80ies from down to the low 70ies. Thx for the help.

anytime i've ever come into the room and it was even into the low 80's my leaftails look like crap even if the humidity is perfect. i don't know anything about " cycling" them or anything like that but i'd try to follow what everyone else is doing for their satanics/henkelis because they all seem to live in almost the exact same environment. i'm sure you already know most of this but just in case you didn't i thought i'd let you know.

you could try the low 80's.i read that they can be fairly heat tolerant. well misting could help them not be dehydtratedif that is what you are worried about. i also read that it helps them cyclemore naturaly.

I've had the best success with keeping all my uroplatus in the 60's - 70's. Anything above that and they start to fall to pieces. I said screw it and put in an air conditioner to be safe. Now that I have U. lineatus now, I'll see how they fair. I'll be keeping them in the same room as my U.ebenaui & phantasticus. I have hopes that they will do just as well but we'll see. Cooler is better. Do a search on google.com for the cities papers, you can find info about their habitat there. Once you get where they come from, you can then do a search about their ranges in Madagascar. That would be your best help in keeping them.

Cheers,
boy

i dont have lineatus yet but i will be getting some. i havee a care sheet and i remeber reading somwere that they were one of the few heat tolerant uros avalable. it also said that they cycle better. i think its worth a shot but when i get my lineatus i will try it a little bit at a time to see what the ranges are.

You mind forwarding that sheet over to me. I'd love to take a look at it.

The male is quite large in comparison to my female. She's actually about half of his size. He's definitely ready to bred, he's got some big old honkin' sperm plugs popping out of him. I pulled one out but he's more interested in making use of his equipment... I'll let you know how my progress is as time goes by.

cheers,
boy.