Hi, this is Wally Kern, we’re going to be feeding of our leopard geckos, and with the feeding,
this is breeding season and we notice that one of our pots has some eggs in it. So what we are
going to demonstrate today is how we set up eggs to be incubated and hatch out here in Supreme
Gecko. We’re preparing the Supreme Hatch material which is highly fired clay material, you can
see that it’s gone from a real light color to a darker color, we’ll add just a little bit more water.
We’ve let the water sit in the screen hatch material for about two minutes, now we’re just
dumping all the water out, what happens is the water get sucked into the pores of the supreme
hatch material and keeps the water. Okay, now we’re searching for the eggs. We’re at the end of
the breeding season, so, it looks like we only have the one egg from this female. And we’re
preparing the supreme hatch material now, just making a small divit so that the egg can rest in
the divit and doesn’t roll, gently move the egg over to the supreme hatch material and fill in a
little bit of the blanks in the supreme hatch material. We’ve put the top back in the deli cup and
we’ve labeled the top with the female’s name and the collection date, that way we can watch the
egg to determine when it hatches. Okay, we’re adding the eggs to the incubator, I have the
incubator set at 82 degrees and that’s to get more females than males. We can determine the sex
of the leopard gecko by the temperature of the incubator, anything under 83 or 84 degrees should
give us more females than males and anything over 85 should give us more males than females.
The eggs will sit here for about 2 months and we’ll constantly watch the eggs and make sure that
when the babies hatch out we’ll get them and put them in their raise out containers.
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