Leopard geckos are a joy for their owners and more experienced or studious owners have taken great joy in breeding the interesting creatures. Experienced herpetologists (those that study reptiles and amphibians) have been cross breeding them for years and have produced some extraordinary modifications on the geckos. For instance there are striped and albino leopard geckos versus the standard yellowish with brown spots from whence they get their name.
There's a lot to understand about breeding if you hope to have a leopard gecko baby or two. To start, a male can mate with up to 3 females a day. So by this reasoning, if you've got a male in with some females, you have a chance at improving results, more difference in their colours, or just more geckos. You also need to be careful to never mix male geckos in a cage, as they can fight to the death.
Leopard geckos become active in a sexual sense at anywhere from nine months to a year old, and once they are to that point, nature will take over and they will begin reproducing. Once they are to that point, you will have to supply the female with a laying box. After the eggs are laid, you'll have to do some work at incubating them. It's pretty neat the way the incubation produces a leopard gecko baby. One thing that is especially neat is that the temperature at which you incubate the eggs will establish the sex of them.
For instance, those incubate at 80 degrees Fahrenheit will be often female, while incubating them at 87 to 90 degrees will more frequently than not be male. In this manner you have control of your colony of leopard geckos. Keeping the temperature in the middle, around 85 degrees will give you a mixed number between the two.
You can say when the eggs are prepared as they are going to become wet looking almost as if they're perspiring. If you may listen when they reach this point, you may at last see the small guy poking at the egg and trying to get out. Inside minutes, you can have a lovable small leopard gecko baby popping out of their shell and prepared to face the world.
Once the gecko has appeared from its egg, it'll almost straight away start losing its skin. As a caution, it's also quite likely that it'll eat its shed skin, which is not a big deal as this really provides nourishment for the new gecko.
To look after your new addition, you will need a couple of things. Nothing actually that you do not need for an adult leopard gecko, but it'll need its own space for a period, complete with a hiding place, a calcium bowl, a water bowl and a food bowl.
Your tiny guy will get by on a diet composed of tiny crickets or meal worms, but be certain to gut load the food before feeding it to the gecko. With correct care and diet, your leopard gecko baby will be healthy and live a wonderful and long life.
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