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Post by JackieP on Aug 20, 2004 14:08:18 GMT -5
Aww look these little guys hatched this week:   They're hatchling viper geckos.....so cute. ;D |
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Post by zarozinia on Aug 20, 2004 17:51:13 GMT -5
Aw, theyre lovely Jackie, my first one died but ive got LOTs of eggs waiting to hatch still, the north east is going to be inundated with viper geckos ;D
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Post by zarozinia on Aug 24, 2004 15:56:10 GMT -5
How are youre babies doing, Jackie. Both of our first two died within hours. Ive no idea why. How are you keeping them?
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Post by JackieP on Aug 24, 2004 20:22:45 GMT -5
Hi Angi
They're both doing great (touch wood). I'm keeping them much the same as the adults. Each baby is in a cricket box and on kitchen roll, at one end there is a hide half filled with damp (not too wet as they can drown) sphagnum moss and at the other end I've put a scrap piece of cork bark (about an inch piece), and a milk bottle lid filled with water (which has a rough pebble in it so they can climb out more easily). I hope this makes sense? - I'll take a photo of the set-up tomorrow. I'm keeping them on a heat mat (about an inch of the cricket box is on the mat) and the temperture at the hot end is about 88oF.
Feeding time is fun - or should I say trying to feed them, lol. I'm feeding them fruitflies, but next week they're getting hatchling crickets and wingless fruitflies (Lauren's ordered me some for this Thursday).
I was spraying them once a day but have been advised not too as they can drown in the smallest water droplets.
It's sad to hear that yours have died. How have you got them in the incubator (temps and substrate)? I can't think why yours have died. Did you handle them much after hatching? - I'm sure you wouldn't have done but i'm just trying to cover all areas. As soon as I removed mine from the incubator I left them alone until the next day. Also I didn't put them on a heat mat until the day after they'd hatched - I kept them at normal room temperature.
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Post by zarozinia on Aug 25, 2004 15:52:55 GMT -5
Hi Jackie The incubator is at 29C. The first one hatched out onto damp paper towel and crawled underneath it, where we found it dead. The second one I picked up gently only to put it in a new cricket box with a partial toilet roll as a hide, paper towel substrate and water in a washed out paracetamol blister pack, so it couldnt fall into deep water. I placed it on top of the warm end of our adults viv, but it died within hours  . |
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Post by JackieP on Aug 25, 2004 17:48:05 GMT -5
I'm incubating at around the same (82 - 84 oF). I have the eggs on sand in the incubator. It sounds like your first hatchling may have got itself stuck under the paper towel and suffocated - silly little mite. I don't know what may have killed the second one. The set-up you have is more or less the same as mine (except the moist hide) so the only thing I can think of is the temperature gradient. What is the temperature at the warm end of your adults viv? It may have been too hot. Having said all that it may have just been natures way. |
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Post by zarozinia on Aug 26, 2004 16:39:04 GMT -5
Our adult viper gecko viv is 88 at the hottest part and drops as low as 70 on the cool side on a night, but is around 74 - 80 through the day. I dont provide a moist hide but mist a corner of the enclosure. I will place a small amount of moist moss in ready for the next hatching babies, which could be any time now.
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Post by JackieP on Aug 27, 2004 14:42:55 GMT -5
Here a photo of my viper babies set-up, Angi:  |
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Post by zarozinia on Aug 28, 2004 17:21:32 GMT -5
Heres our second lot. Looking stronger than the first two.  |
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Post by JackieP on Aug 28, 2004 19:24:08 GMT -5
Aww brilliant Angi. Congrats ;D
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Post by zarozinia on Aug 31, 2004 7:21:29 GMT -5
They great fun to watch especially at feeding time, they are so cute.
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