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Cat Geckos & incubating eggs

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Hello All,

I was wondering if anyone had any success at incubating cat gecko eggs. My girl has been laying 2 eggs every month for the past 2 months. I am having no success at incubating them.

Any advise is appreciated.

Thanks
 
I am keeping them like my crested gecko eggs.
The female has been with a male. She is alone now though. I can find no real information on the web on incubating eggs. But everything I read says to keep them like crested geckos.

What temp do they prefer? What kind of media should one use?
 
It's best to incubate them cool, in the low 70's. I always used vermiculite. They take a long time to hatch. What is happening to your eggs, are they drying up, molding , collapsing?
 
They are molding and collapsing.

I am thinking they may be staying too wet. Do they prefer to be wet or dry with high humidity?
 
I've always been successful when incubated at room temperature (70-76) on slightly moistened perlite. It's the same way I keep my cresteds. Sounds like either infertile eggs, ones kept too wet, or ones that have experienced a temperature extreme and died.

Make sure your temps are good, make sure to keep your adults well fed and supplemented, and dry up your mix a little. You could always put the eggs into an empty small container like a portion cup, and set that into your container of media, it will keep them off any wet substrate but still provide humidity. If you watch the eggs and see them start to dent in you can always add a little more water to the side of the container. If you still have problems I would get a new male to make sure it's not just an infertile male.
 
My temps are low as you suggested. I think they are infertile, one was severely dented in and clearly dead. So I opened it up and these was nothing.

Hey thanks for all the great advise. It has been really helpful.

What do you suggest for food for the adults? I am feeding crickets & roaches.
 
I gave mine 5 crickets, 3 times a week. Crickets were dusted with calcium twice a week and a vitamin supplement once every other week. I would mist mine fairly well every day about 1/2 hour before lights out, and then add the crickets about 1/2 hour after lights out. I wanted to make sure they were active before adding food.

How long did it take before you could tell they were bad? Did the eggs ever get larger like they were growing?

If I had roaches I would have fed them as well, however I am not "allowed" to have roaches......see what married gets ya.
 
My boyfriend is the one who raises the roaches, so I have a life time supply. I give them 3 food items every other day. I dust them every other time. And I mist every night.

The eggs never grew. About a week or so after they were laid they went bad.
 
If they went bad that fast it makes me think infertile. Unless the eggs were flipped, hit a temperature extreme, or something else to cause the embryo to die, that's the only thing I can think of.
 
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