Re: [gecko]Question to Neil A. Meister : sex is not temperature related

[Doug Johnston]

I'm obviously not Neil... I followed that same series of posts last year and incubated my R. ciliatus eggs in the low 70'sF. It is hard to tell what I got as I usually end up selling them younger than 6 months old, but several folks that bought some of them reported they turned out female. Unfortuneately, I can't show any exact distributions. My feeling is that I got more females than usual, but certainly not mostly female. martin wrote: Hello,   I've been reading previous post ( feb 2003 ) and I wanted to know if you did in deed tried to incubate R. Ciliatus eggs at low temperature and what where the results ?  Where they mostly females ?   >I keep all ciliatus eggs in my basement, at 66-72=B0F (18.8-22.2=B0C) and get mostly females, approximately 85% or more. The eggs take 120-140 days to hatch, but there have been no problems with the hatchlings. They hatch perfectly and eat within a day or two. >Hilde   Martin ;) -- Doug Johnston http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scubadug/