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Here is another shot of one of this years hatchlings showing the color and pattern (not a very good picture, this little one is amazing!)...

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Ben

Magnificent looking,

your doing a bang up job my friend, keep it up!
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Eve / PHEve

I was woundering how long does it take an egg to hatch after it is layed? I have heard that it takes 60-90 days but the people that told me that have NEVER breed them? I have 2 clutches from each of my pairs and the first clutch was laid on 9-20-04, and I was woundering about when could they hatch? Also what are the weights of your adult females(one of mine is 72 grames!)???I am attaching a pic of 2 of my breeder henkeli morphs.

GREAT looking baby by the way!(I forgot to say that in my last post)LoL! THANKS ERIk

In my experience, henkeli eggs hatch anywhere from 130 to 150 days... I give this range because I have had one hatch at 136 days and one at 146 days... I have had hatchlings at various dates in between, but this is the high end and low end... all were incubateed in the exact same conditions... Common "pet trade" literature will tell you 60-90 days, but this could not be farther from the truth... Maybe if you incubate in the lower 80s like they recommend this is true!... this = dead babies... incubation at an avg 72 degrees and 100% humidity will give your eggs the best chance of hatching... be careful with that high of humidity however... (i can explain this more if needed...)

My largest breeding female is 79 grams (this is large, prehaps even overweight), but I have proven females that are as low as 55 grams... thanks for the compliments on the babies...
hope this helps... lemme know
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Ben

Hi,
I saw that you recomend keeping the eggs at 100%. I have two clutches of pietschmanni eggs at 70-75% humidity is this too low? Thats the humidity I keep my geckos at so I decided to keep the eggs like that too.
Matt

That's probably a safe range... Although there are ways, it's hard to maintain 100% humidity without restricting too much air movement, thats why I say one must be careful... Assuming that eggs are slightly buried under leaf litter in the wild, I would GUESS that the humidty there would be higher than the ambient air humidity (ie higher than the humidity in a geckos cage)... I mean, for those herpers out there, how often do to you lift a log, stone or some leaf litter and find that the soil is moist or slightly moist where the nearby, unexposed soil is dry?... All the time... In my opinion, one should try to acheive a very high humidity (as high as you can get) with good air movement... I hope this helps... This is what has worked for me... If ppl have constrasting views, please post!... I'm here to learn as well!
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Ben