Breeding question

Also if you breed them and want to sale them. In the egg box keep the temp a little lower, you have to wait a couple more days but you will produce more females. FEMALES GO FAST. I have been looking for females for 5 weeks now, most of them beyond breeding age. It is at the point to buy hatchlings and cross my fingers.

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Originally Posted by Atonyblue

Also if you breed them and want to sale them. In the egg box keep the temp a little lower, you have to wait a couple more days but you will produce more females. FEMALES GO FAST. I have been looking for females for 5 weeks now, most of them beyond breeding age. It is at the point to buy hatchlings and cross my fingers.

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I don't believe this has been proven for Cresties. Leos, yes... Cresties, I don't think so.

temperature sex dependence hasn't been proven with cresteds and from my own experience it is totally random. some people say they get more females at lower temps but i think it boils down to luck. temperatures do seem to play more a part in auric and leachie incubation, but not so much cresteds. if anything last season i incubated on the high side and ended up with more female cresteds than i did males.

Well it is funny you say it isn't proven, because there are Breeders out there that do this constantly and are looking at 3:1 female to male ratio on their hatchlings. Also there was an article I read a couple months ago, that stated the vast majority of reptiles depend on temps and not genetics.

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Originally Posted by Atonyblue

Well it is funny you say it isn't proven, because there are Breeders out there that do this constantly and are looking at 3:1 female to male ratio on their hatchlings. Also there was an article I read a couple months ago, that stated the vast majority of reptiles depend on temps and not genetics.

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I'm assuming you meant the vast majority of reptile *gender* depends on temps and not genetics.

And, while that's great information and interesting---to say the least!---it is not 100% proven fact. There are many clutches that hatch at low temps and do not fit into this model.

are you talking specifically about crested breeders? can you provide a link to the article you are referencing? there are some reptiles that do rely on temperatures to determine sex, but as of yet i do not believe this has been proven true with crested geckos.