Yes!!

[Bartman]

Oh wow! Im so excited, my albino leopard geckos bred about 2 or 3 weeks ago, and the female just layed an egg...her first attempt from what i understand at breeding so one really healthy egg is more then i was expecting. Shes really hungry now...is their a chance she could lay another one? She looks really skinny now so i dont really know..but its already in the incubator cooking at 85..is that an okay temp?

Thanks for reading! Im so excited!!! (btw, my first attempt at breeding anything)

[blazinreps]

85 will give u even chance of females and males. females usually lay 1 to 3 eggs my 2 pairs have laid 2 everytime.

oh and btw congrates!=)

this is my first year breedin leos and 3 out of 4 eggs ahve hatched so far
got a few more baokin.

[ChristinaM]

Hey Adam, big congrats :D
If it's her first breeding, odds are you may only get the one egg. But you can look at her belly and see( if you think she is done ).

Now comes the fun part, waiting for it to hatch :) patience, lots of patience.

Oh, now that she's laid one, expect more in bout 3ish weeks.....if she's in good health, you should get 2 every time she lays. :)

[DragnDrop]

You sound like an expectant father. Worn a grove in the carpet yet? :)

As state, first year breeders quite often lay one egg, aren't on schedule, or have a lot of infertile eggs. It's as if they need to practise to get it right. One of my females didn't get one fertile egg the entire first year, but that's more the exception. Then there are some that do it all right from the first clutch. Don't be disappointed if yours skips a 'scheduled' clutch this year, or if you find a few infertile eggs. Next year she should be getting it right.

[Bartman]

Oh so you dont have to put them male in again for more eggs?

[Dani33]

Congrats Adam, good luck with the incubation! Keep us all updated!!! :)

[Ixidor]

no, females can retain male sperm for a year from what I understand

[Bartman]

Oh nice! So i should be expecting more eggs soon?

[672]

.....yes that's what were saying. To quote Christina "3ish weeks".

[dave68]

Congrats, Bartman pretty exciting eh? Once she gets going it's almost like clock work. My husband and I bred leos for 5 or 6 years, and it was so nice because of the clock work pattern, with laying and hatching etc. Even after 5/6 years every hatch was like the first. I think the very first time we had an egg hatch my husband was more excited than when our first son was born! lol
Anyways, enjoy and please keep updated, I'm sure you'll be extatic when it pops out of the egg, they're so incredibly cute.
Allison

[Bartman]

Forsure! So what do baby gex require?

I was just planning on keeping him in a 10 gal, 60 watt (90* temp right? Like for babies is it the same?) papertowl of course, 2 hides and humid hide, water dish..thats all it needs right? Nothing special?

[m1k3_88]

congrats on breeding and good luck with the incubation bartman. Cant wait till next year when i breed my collareds:D

[blazinreps]

I wouldent put a newborn ina 10 gallon tank. i keep mine in a smaller 2 gallon tuberwear for the first few weeks it makes it easier for it to have prop humidity and easier for the baby to catch the pin head crix. i just throw in 2 tolet paper rowls and a lill dish for water and my babies seem to do fine.

mlk3 lemme know how the breeding goes im attempting to breed my collards this year but cant find alot of info on them.

[dave68]

Hey Bartman,
We kept ours in similar setups like blazinreps, little shoe box type rubbernaids but for a humid hide just thought I'd share what worked really well for us. We would use an upturned deli container or any container that size with the lid being the floor, cut appropriate sized "doorway", now get ready for the wacky part of the tip, first I'll tell why it works so good, it's very absorbant and does not dry out like papertowel would. They are in the baby diaper/ bottle dept's at most stores - Nursing pads for nursing mothers, Now I know this sounds really bizarre, but I am a mom of two and I had them around the house, my husband for some weird "herper" reason, tried them out- perfectly round, super high absorbancy, and suddenly they had a new use! Sounds strange I know, I thought the same thing. If you start having too many babies it gets kind of expensive though. Just thought I'd share that odd little story that came to mind.

Cheers, Allison

[Blazin]

Hey thats cool. Congrats. Hope you hatch out some screamers!!!!!!

[Bartman]

Thanks everyone for the tips and great comments :)

Probably my last question, how should i go about moving the baby to its new home. How fragile are they as babies?

[ChristinaM]

You can just move it....they are fragile but not bad. I stick my finger under the chest, between the front legs and push it onto my hand.

or

put the container he hatches in, into the enclosure and let him walk out :)

on feeding: I personally do not use pinhead crix. I find them a waste of time. I use appropriately sized mealworms and superworms ( I have my own colonies of each, so small ones are not a prob ), small sized silkworms......untill they are interesting in 3/8" size crix. I tried crix....my baby could not catch them. I stick with wormies.

and as with others, I use the shoe box sized rubbermaids for babies.

[sketchy4]

congratulations!! i havent been around for a while so ive missed alot lol.

[Tim and Julie B]

I too use small sterilite containers with locking lids. Be sure to properly ventilate them though. I add a water dish, toilet paper roll hide(cut in half) or a small yogurt container with a small door cut out and a small deli cup of moist paper towels or moss. Congrats! Waiting is the worst part.......

Julie