You asked for it.....how I feed my blind baby leo

[drewlowe]

I'm sorry to hear that. I wish it would have worked out for you. You at least took the time to try to help him, more than alot of people i know.

[TribalGecko]

yeah, thanx. I am thinking if I had started with the feeding method right from the start, he might have survived. I hope the 4 other eggs that are left are okay :dumb: .....I guess 88 degrees might be too high for them to incubate at but I don't want to start messing with the temps now that they only have a couple weeks to go. My leos are working on another batch of eggs and I will incubate them at 82 degrees this time.

[Samba]

Tribal... my condolences. I'm sorry he didn't make it, but I commend you on your efforts to help him. Keep us updated on the other eggs.

(P.S. I don't think 88 degrees is too high... just my opinion).

[Alicewave]

Tribal sorry to hear it but he is probably better off in the long run.

Samba: I think tribal meant that he suspects the eye problem is a result of the tremper method where you increase the temp to 88 after two weeks so they hatch faster. 88 is fine if you are incubating for male then ron suggests to lower the temp a bit. I don't know if that would be a good idea either. I tend to agree with the theory that eye problems are a result of Vit. A deficiency in the mothers myself.

[TribalGecko]

Well I am gut loading my crickets with all kinds of fresh fruits and veggies including carrots and using Minerall too. The parent colony is looking really well.....I do have one question though. My original colony consisted of 4 females and 1 male. Then I bought three more babies, 2 albinos and 1 leucistic. I put them into the tank with the other leos when they were teenager size and now know that the leucistic is a male (the 2 albinos are females). There has been no problems YET.....they all get along great but won't two males eventually fight with each other? The tank is a 20 gallon and they seem like they are comfortable with enough room.

[drewlowe]

8 Geckos in a 20 gallon seems a little too small to me. i house 7 adults in a 75 gallon cage. I know thats a little big but i have several hides, and i plan on getting a few later on to add to that cage. And i belive you will have problems with both of the males in the same cage specially in a 20 gallon. When your sub adult male is ready to breed that is when you will most likely see the problems start. Even if there isn't any fighting you may notice the smaller or submissive one isn't eating as well as the other male. Or you could stress out the submissive male. If you want to contiue to have both i would suggest separating one of the males into his own cage,( or separte both males from all the female into there own individual cages.) if you want him to breed with the other females you can just introduce the female into his cage. but you have to be careful of that because she may have already mated with the other male so you would never know for sure which male was the father. Just my thoughts.