My one egg

Last year I obtained 1.2 SHTCT '06 Leos of different lineage with breeding in mind. I know that the first year isn't often very productive but I was hoping for a little more at this point. The first egg was laid on March 3rd and is a good one. I am looking forward to see what hatches. Subsequent eggs from that girl have been indented and turned moldy in the incubator. The other girl so far has laid only 3 malformed eggs on the floor of the cage. 1 egg may be all that I get this year but I am hoping for more. In any case I will feel some satisfaction if I produce even one nice leo.

Congrats :gj:

Thanks. This egg that is due to hatch in early May will be my first reptile of any kind produced by me. Next year I might be in the position to try Ball Pythons.

I started this thread yesterday and today the girl that had not yet laid a good egg left a nice one in the egg laying box. Hopefully I will get at least a few more eggs this season. I just might enjoy breeding reptiles.

Congrats on the eggs!
I've always said I won't breed my Leo's but am sort of thinking of giving it a go with my IJCP's in a few years. Not sure though.
Best of luck to you, here's hoping for a lot of cute little ones!

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Originally Posted by Clementine_3

Congrats on the eggs!
I've always said I won't breed my Leo's but am sort of thinking of giving it a go with my IJCP's in a few years. Not sure though.
Best of luck to you, here's hoping for a lot of cute little ones!

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Thanks! I'm only breeding the 2 females, trying to keep the endeavor really small to find out both if I like it and if I can find homes for the offspring. I wouldn't want to get locked into too much work or be up to my ears in babies. Of course I intend to keep the nicest one for myself. If I find out that I'm into more than I want to be, I can keep the male separately or leave him with just one female to scale down even smaller.But next year I think that I will have try try 1 clutch of snakes.

Today, the first gecko came out of the egg, exactly 60 days after it was laid. I looked at it this afternoon and it had pipped. I looked just now and it is out of the egg. Pretty neat. This is the first reptile produced by me.

Sweet!! I believe you forgot the picture though :colbert:
Congrats on the new addition.

Sadly I am such an antique version of a human I have not been able to take a close up photo since digital cameras became prevalent. I have 3 digital cameras, all with macro features but I just am not able to photograph anything this small. I did try but had no luck.:(

LOL Dale...

Congrats on the leo egg!! Looking forward to seeing it when you do manage to take photos. :)

Thats great! Pictures are a must, even a blury one!

Did you provide them a calcium dish?

Congrats on the new little one.


Easy way for you to take a macro shot.

Put the Subject ( BABY GECKO PLEASE) near a window where you will have lots of bright natural light, set your camera to macro, and make sure its on auto so you don't have to use any special settings and snap away.

If your pics are coming out blurry its probably due to lack of light. My house is VERY brightly lit, but my macro shots always come out blurry. Nothing beats natural sunlight.

White backgrounds help too!

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Originally Posted by Beardedragon

Thats great! Pictures are a must, even a blury one!

Did you provide them a calcium dish?

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Not Yet. At the first sign of poop I have calcium and small crickets ready to add to the tub. Only water and a hide is in there now.

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Originally Posted by Kristy

Congrats on the new little one.


Easy way for you to take a macro shot.

Put the Subject ( BABY GECKO PLEASE) near a window where you will have lots of bright natural light, set your camera to macro, and make sure its on auto so you don't have to use any special settings and snap away.

If your pics are coming out blurry its probably due to lack of light. My house is VERY brightly lit, but my macro shots always come out blurry. Nothing beats natural sunlight.

White backgrounds help too!

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Thanks. I will try this. Maybe lighting is the key. The background will be a napkin. She is residing in a Mohr's Corn Condo with a napkin substrate.