My breeding plan

[crazytanak]

So everytime someone starts breeding for the first time one of the main questions everyone ask them is what they plan on doing if they get over run with eggs and little ones.

So geckos lay 1 or 2 eggs about once a month. With 4 females im looking at up to 8 eggs being laid at one time, and anywhere from 16-24 eggs in incubation. Thats a lot of babies!

My plan is to keep the male in his own cage and keep 1 female in there with him until they mate. Then the female will be removed and placed into the big female cage. Another female will not be kept with the male untill her eggs are laid, hatched, and big enough to sell. Once all the babies are sold, given away, whatever then i will put a female in with the male again.


I figure with this plan i will normally only have 2 eggs at a time, and if she retains sperm maybe 4 eggs at most. Of course laying eggs and incubating and waiting for them to be big enough to sell (between 5-10 grams) is going to take some time, so i probably wont get more then 2-3 clutches a year. But I dont mind, it will be time to know what to expect, fine tune my care routine, and time to become a well known breeder. I will cycle all 4 females (when they are big enough) so there is a good chance each female will only lay a clutch every other year. Plenty of time to put weight back on and build up the calcium stores.

Down the road I may change the plan to allow for more breeding, but that will be years down the road.

So what do you think of my plan

[crazytanak]

no one has any advice for me? thats rare

[zuk450]

sounds alot like my game plan haha. I pair up my geckos until they each mate once then separate then for the rest of the season, I got 4 clutches from one female last season, and 4 from each of my females that were paired up this season(2 females, 8 eggs so far this season)
At the moment I only have enought extra space to breed 2 or 3 of my females per season, so that helps keep things fairly simple

I think you definetly have the right idea by starting off slow. as far as advice would go, Im afraid i dont have enough experience at this time to offer any advice you probably dont already know haha. good luck with them though!