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vydalbabi

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My female carpet just laid her first clutch which may be fertile! While I am super excited I am also a bit nervous. Does anyone have any advice? I was planning to incubate them with my panther eggs same substrate and same temp with closet method. I know carpet eggs are pretty hard to hatch successfully and luck has to be on your side but any suggestions will be appreciated THANKS :D
 
Congrats!

Lateralis are no harder then any other species to hatch if you provide the right conditions. What are the temps that your panthers eggs are incubating at?

Im sure Kevin will chime in on this thread. He is the lateralis master!


Carl
 
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Here is a link to a article Kevin wrote. It includes details on incubation.

Carl
 
Thanks and I actually already read that article before I got my carpet pair and have been using it as a reference ever since! It's been super helpful. I'm keeping them in the closet at room temperature. It's been at a constant 70F to 72F when I have checked but it may get a little colder in the middle of the night. I'm actually wondering if I really need to give them a diapause like Kevin does or if anyone thinks trying without a diapause would be okay since he also said many breeders have been successful with that method as well. Has anyone on the forums had success without diapause? If so if live to hear about your incubation method. And anyone who has used diapause what kinds or incubators or fridges have you used?
 
Do a search of his posts. That article is pretty old. I am pretty sure I read that he now has the best luck with a constant temp of around 70, no cooling, and that they should hatch at around 7 months.
 
I am still a believer in a diapause but Kevin has persuaded me to try his method of a constant low 70's. My only issue with the constant temp is you don't usually get a mass hatching. All the times I used a diapause my eggs all hatched within days of each other. I know a diapause worked well for me in the past with lateralis, major and minor.

I've got a few month's before I need to figure out which route I'm going to go.

Carl
 
Awesome to know he has been successful with constant temps now lol I was not looking forward to doing diapause method on my first clutch!
 
Carl that's interesting that you haven't gotten them to hatch close to the same time with constant temps. How far apart have they hatched? Why do you think that is I would think they should all grow around a similar rate being in the same conditions
 
vydalbabi said:
Carl that's interesting that you haven't gotten them to hatch close to the same time with constant temps. How far apart have they hatched? Why do you think that is I would think they should all grow around a similar rate being in the same conditions
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I really have no clue why the two different ways produce different results. It could very well be that the constant temp I was using was to warm. Back almost 20 years ago we didn't use incubators so we really had no way of holding a constant temp. We had spikes and drops.

Once my females are a little older I plan on buying a incubator so I can hold the temps solid on a clutch. With the other bloodline I'll do the diapause and compare the results.

Carl
 
I'm late to this thread. I do not use diapause anymore like when I wrote the article. I have gotten the most consistent results (100% hatch rate or nearly so for fertile eggs) with a constant 70F-ish. I just had my first clutch of 6th generation eggs laid (18 egg clutch).

I think diapause will work too though-but it's more work and I don't bother since I have no need.

Good luck :)
 
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