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Just had a quick question. I usually am not in this forum, as I mostly own various sp. of snake.

I do however own some Coleonyx variegatus variegatus and C.v. bogerti and breed them just for fun. I usually keep them in 40 gallon vivariums in small colonies and at this time of year I just leave the windows open at night to gradually cool them, but this year I have anerys that I want to remove from their enclosure and breed so that I can ensure success with the eggs. Since I am doing it this way this year, I am running into the question of how long they should go without eating before I place them into the exo terra cooler that will bring them into a constant high 60s temperature. Also what would a recommended temperature be??

As stated before, this is the first time I am going to bring there constant temps lower than what they could have gotten to in the house previously because in their vivariums they have A LOT of subterranean areas to go and stay. Almost all of the rocks lead to caves down at the false bottom under the dirt and soil.

Below is also a picture of my male anery banded gecko.

I can't help you but wanted to say fantastic looking anery Coleonyx.

Not something you see often or at all.

I've bred them before but wanted to see what other people have had luck doing. I have them in cooling now and will be hatching my first anery babies early summer. I collected my original adults from the wild when I came across this anery rd cruising! He is sweet looking.

That is amazing to find an anery like that as not only rare but as you know odds are stacked against them due to color.

It is sweet.

You don't really need to cool your Coleonyx at all. I used to cool mine, but lost one in the initial stages so I stopped. I actually have the opposite problem - can't get them to stop. You can read about my C.v.'s breeding exploits here:
http://www.geckotime.com/the-gecko-who-wouldnt-quit/

If you really do want to brumate, there's Gecko Time article here about how to do it:

http://www.geckotime.com/gecko-brumation/

Incidentally, I also have an anery male who's bred to a non-anery female. The anery seems to dominate. I've produced more than 30 offspring from this pair and they are all white to very pale yellow.

Aliza