Hello Josh,
I've not seen the problem in my hatchlings for about 5-6 years but I
used to get 5-10 hatchlings/year like that (out of a total of
800+ babies). I would see animals with one "tiny" eye or missing an
eyelid, things like that. While it's possible it could be temperature
related I would have expected to see more of it in my animals. I
suspect it may have have been genetic because I added several
new bloodlines around the time it stopped. Most animals
with the problem seem to do ok, eat well, and grow normally.
You may want to track which breeders the deformed babies came from and
see if avoiding that pairing in the future eliminates the problem.
Friday, July 27, 2001, 5:26:56 PM, you wrote:
JK> I've been hatching out Leopard Geckos pretty steadily for about the last 6
JK> months, but 3 of the last 4 to hatch have all had deformed or underdeveloped
JK> eyes. Living in California I have had the pleasure of a couple of rolling
JK> black-outs, after which one of my hovabetors has had a higher range variance
JK> than it did previously, and that is the incubator the deformed guys have
JK> hatched from. The hovabator now runs between 83.2 - 84.4, and the two
JK> blackouts each lasted about 2 1/2 hours. Do you think the deformities are a
JK> result of the lack of heat for a few hours a couple of times, or the
JK> increased variance in temp, or both? I have since moved all the eggs to a
JK> new incubator, and all remaining eggs were laid after the rolling blackouts,
JK> so I hope I get more healthy geckos. Just wondering if anybody has had
JK> similar experiences, and a little insight into what I might be hatching out
JK> next, because seeing the geckos with underdeveloped eyes simply breaks my
JK> heart.
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Best regards,
Tony mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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