Color.

[Youkai]

For those of you breeding hypos or higher colored animals, I've got a question.

Are animals hatched from eggs cooked at say 82°F significantly darker than the ones incubated at 88°F or so?

I'm contemplating throwing my hypo/albino and hypoxhypo eggs into another incubator at 2-3 weeks for brighter color, if it makes a difference.

[Tim and Julie B]

I was looking at a few sites one day and found an article on temperature and color. It suggested that higher temps will produce brighter young, while lower temps produce darker. I am not sure about that being the case all of the time, but it sure does give us something to consider. I wonder why temp would have such an impact on color?

[Youkai]

Yeah, I know it has an effect on color (temperature) but I'm hoping someone can tell me if it's largely noticeable.

[beth wallbank]

Ron Tremper is a good candidate for you to contact with this question. He seems to have done a pile of temp. experimenting for colour when hatching and the final adult outcome.

[BigDan]

It definately does make a huge difference myself and Garrick Demeyer of crestedgecko.com played around with it last year and the albinos we produced at higher temps were very pink and bright and stayed that way into adutlthood. None browned out, I even produced beautiful bright pink babies from brown adults.

If you want to temp sex incubate at 80 - 82 for the first 2 weeks to fix the sex then raise the temp to 88 for the last 3 or 4 and bingo you have some awesome looking geckos.

Dan

[Alicewave]

Yup there is a link on his site that explains all about how temperature effects color and it even has some photos so you can see the difference. Check out www.leopardgecko.com.

If you want to temp sex incubate at 80 - 82 for the first 2 weeks to fix the sex then raise the temp to 88 for the last 3 or 4 and bingo you have some awesome looking geckos.

Dan, what temp would you incubate for the weeks in between? Or do they hatch in six weeks with that combo? And does this only apply to albinos?

[Emily-Fisher]

yeah...I also read that the warmer the temperature, the brighter the leo just like Tim and Julie B said which is why most of the prettier leos are males.