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just wondering what temp everyone is using for incubating henkle eggs. i keep mine at room temp and have the most success for both henkle and phants.about 77 to 79. a friend of mine is having trouble keeping his henkle babies alive for more than a month, he said he was incubating at 82 and i think this has to be the problem. any feedback thanks

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0.0.4 AZUREUS
1.2.0 KLEMMERI
0.0.1 GRANDIS
0.2 STANDINGI
1.1 PICTUS
1.4 frog eye keyzerlingi

1.2 PHANTASTICUS
1.1.MANY c.b. HENKELI

Most success has occurred with incubating at, or around, 72 degrees. My eggs are at that temp constantly, but others let theirs fluctuate down a couple degrees. Your friends problems are most likely due to the incubation temp. They are probably hatching out w/in ~100 days, which is too soon (for henks). The accepted "norm" for incubation time of health henks is ~150 days.

Those temps are way too hot. That's the easiest way to kill baby Uroplatus - incubate too warm. I've got one incubating right now at around 70-72 degrees. Tone those temps down and the babies will come out much stronger.
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Inhabitants of the reptile room:
Leopard geckos, pictus geckos, crested geckos, african fat-tails, Paroedura bastardi bastardi, a velvet gecko, Henkel's Leaf Tails, Bibron's geckos, Corn snakes, Ball Pythons, Honduran milks, a single Taiwan Beauty, Leucistic Texas Rats, Solomon Island Tree Boas, a pair of Mali Uromastyx, an Amazon tree boa, baby Hatian tree boas, a single female circleback Colombian red-tail...

For my eban's - 68-70 degrees F. No hotter. I've lost a few to the same issue when I went with hotter temps.

Cheers
jason