Anybody working w/ Chinese Cave Geckos??

[Tarzet]

I have been working with a small group for the last 3 years.. (G Luii). I have been incubating the eggs in my Leo incubator at 80-82... So far I have hatched all females. I just love them! The are my little vampires..lol:eb:

[Katatonic]

THANK YOU SO MUCH TARZET!! That's precisely the temp that I'm cookin at this very second!! It's nice to know I can expect some success at that temperature. What incubation medium are you using?? Ever use perlite on the luii eggs?? THANK YOU!!

[Tarzet]

Your welcome lol
I have always used Vermiculite....although I have found that they really like to lay thier eggs in "eco earth" ...it comes in brick form and expands in water....thats what I keep them on. I gave up using a lay box with verm in it....they never used it. I just make sure to keep one side of the substrate damp. They are not as prolific as Leos....I only average 4-6 eggs per female a season. The hatchlings are so cute! they are banded black and white...whith the deepest red eyes...so cool!
Best of luck with them

[Katatonic]

Yea I've got them set up in a fairly naturalistic enclosure *in contrast w/ my leos*, and I've been using 50% eco earth, 25% repti bark and 25% sphagnum moss on top of that, add in a bunch of cork bark halves to hide under and they're livin' it up!! Observing their behaviour, I figured they wouldn't even look twice at an egg box.
Thank you for the info regarding your successes, I really appreciate it. I've had much success w/ other Eublepharine species, and I was pretty much going on common sense in relation to the other species I've worked with... Since, as you've probably figured out, there's not a whole lot of info out there on these guys.
I love the look of luii, it's such a menacing look, yet they're so timid and almost noble... If you can use that adjective w/ reptiles... lol. I'll have my fingers crossed the entire incubation. *crosses fingers already*. Thank you again!!