Hi Josh,
I have seen a few of these myself. Unless your house is below 78 consistently, I
would skip incubators. I have Helix incubators for precision, unless you are
going for some predictable TDSD results there's no reason for an incubator in
most folk's homes. Your temps are going to be male skewed, is that what you
want?
I went through the blackouts too, an hour or hour and 1/2 was not real critical
I think. I don't have a clue on the etiology of the eye probs. Temp is
definitely something to consider though, also genetics. All the inbreeding to
produce particular traits has to cost something.
Julie Bergman
http://www.geckoranch.com
GGA lifetime member
Josh Klavir wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been hatching out Leopard Geckos pretty steadily for about the last 6
> months, but 3 of the last 4 to hatch have all had deformed or underdeveloped
> eyes. Living in California I have had the pleasure of a couple of rolling
> black-outs, after which one of my hovabetors has had a higher range variance
> than it did previously, and that is the incubator the deformed guys have
> hatched from. The hovabator now runs between 83.2 - 84.4, and the two
> blackouts each lasted about 2 1/2 hours. Do you think the deformities are a
> result of the lack of heat for a few hours a couple of times, or the
> increased variance in temp, or both? I have since moved all the eggs to a
> new incubator, and all remaining eggs were laid after the rolling blackouts,
> so I hope I get more healthy geckos. Just wondering if anybody has had
> similar experiences, and a little insight into what I might be hatching out
> next, because seeing the geckos with underdeveloped eyes simply breaks my
> heart.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Josh Klavir
> Director of Consumer Relations
> Zoo Med Laboratories
> (805) 542-9988
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