Yeah.. I haven't been here in about that long... I've had 2 bad seasons running and can't figure out why. All my eggs keep going bad. I've lost 6 eggs near hatching just this year. I've got 2 hatchlings this year and one more in the incubator out of 7 breeding female's clutches this year. I'm not sure whats going wrong. I know its not humidity... I know its not bad eggs.. each egg was fertile... but all of them have died several weeks into incubation. There's no inbreeding that I know of.. I keep coming back to possible heat fluctuation with my Hovabator... its the only thing I can think of.. I just can't afford to get a better incubator right now...My temps in my house aren't stable.. so its difficult to get the incubator stable..It varies by about 5 or 6 degrees. My digital thermometer broke.. not sure what happened to it but it wasn't reading right.... I'm not having good luck. Next year will start my boa breeding project. My female hit 5 ft this year at 2 years old. She'll be ready to go by September of 2006. Hopefully I have better luck with that.. but if anyone has any suggestion on the geckos I'd be very grateful. Rundown of their setups
Enclosure
Each 30 gallon sterlite runs:
1.2
Heat is 76 cool side, 88 warm side with a belly heat area of 91
Moist hides are spaghum moss
Substrate is papertowel/newspaper
Vitamins are 1 feeding Calcium w/o D3
1 feeding multivitamin with D3
1 feeding without supplement
Repeat
They get mealworms, superworms, no crickets, silkworms as a treat and waxworms as treats. Pinkies once a week for all the females.. Males twice a month.
Eggs are nice, white, firm and properly calcified when laid.. but they all mold after 2 weeks or so. Humidity is 92%, heat is between 78 and 82 degrees usually though thats the only variable that I can think of that would be problematic is that 4 or 5 degree variance. They don't dent, or sweat they just go moldy and soft/slimy looking. Anyway, not sure if its me or my incubator but any suggestions would be helpful.
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Lucien
1.1 Columbian Redtail Boa (BCI)(Sutekh and Isis)
3.5.3 Leopard geckos (2.0 Blizzards (Caine and Goliath), 0.1 Tangerine Albino (Tequila Sunrise ...Tiki for short), 1.0 Rainwater Albino (Mycah), 0.4 Poss. Het. Albino (Annika, Lace, Rain and Aris) and 2.1 dbl. het blizzard x tang albino (Malice, Malfeas, and Mystic))
0.1 Savannah Monitor (Kiros)
13 rats
2 Dogs (Loki and Storm)
3 cats (Ashe, Sahara and Hercules)
6 Fish (4 Red Danios, 1 Cardinal Fish, and 1 Tiger Barb)
8 Ramshorn snails
"And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!"
