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Does anyone know anything about breeding yellow throated lizards? i currently have two males but I'm interested in breeding. Basically I need any information you can give me. Also, What in the world is probing????

Probing basically uses metal instruments to measure the depth of male/female sex organ depth. I do not recommend this with any plated lizard species as injury to sexual organs happens more often, thus no viable breeding. Femoral pores are best way to check.
In order to breed you need to establish breeding groups and/or colonies. Setup, lighting, diet are factors in this also. How are yours setup? What lighting cycles are you using? What are you feeding them? What feeding cycles? No, do not cool them down! Lighting and feeding is the key. Let me know what you are doing and I will get you started. Females will start coming in November through February-African Imports. Deparasitizing is not hard, quarenteen not hard either. Save money for shipping in our winter, and plan on buying a small group to sort your own sexes out (importers/petshops just don't always have time or knoweledge). Some considerations to think about, let me know.

I have bred them several times.
A short summary: Cycling is not necessary and does not help. Their inner clock works well.
If setup and feeding is OK, breeding will occur between December and february. A single clutch of 2-5 surprisingly big eggs will be laid in February/march.
Under standard incubation conditions large Babies (approx 5" will hatch after 120-160 days. Eggs need initially high humidity but die if they are not allowed to adpt to dryer conditions during incubation.
Females guard nesting place.
Sexing in this Gerrhosaurus species is easy: Males have much more pronounced femoral pores and only males have red or yellow scales in the lip/throat area.
BTW this species is very often mixed up with G. nigrolineatus in the pet trade.

Hope that helps

Ingo