My first hatchling!

[jmntlbn]

This is Sparky our first hatchling, we named him that because when we put him in his tank he ran around like crazy. He was born last night. I have him in a 10g tank with a humid hide a regular hide on the cool side and some other hides around the tank. I also have a UTH keeping the temp around 92. I also have some water and mist the whole tank when needed. I think I,m on the right track.

Took 44 days in a container with moist fine pearlite kept in my Gecko room wher the temp stays around 80deg. I just kept the container on a shelf and that was all I did. Nothing technical about it and it worked on our first try.

 

[BrightReptiles]

Congrats! Where the heck do you live? I wish I could keep ambient temps in my room stable..

 

[jmntlbn]

I live in Fl. I keep the A.C. vent closed in the room and the shades cracked a bit to let in some light during the day for them. The temps get up to about 85 but never higher and down to 79 at night. I do change the air in the room once a week while I clean the cage. I try to keep it simple and it works.

 

[BrightReptiles]

I live in FL as well. I can barely even get the incubator to hold up the temp changes. I had to put a window AC unit in to keep the temp at 80 constantly to incubate at 84.

 

[jmntlbn]

It works for me this time of the year but when it strts cooling off around Oct Nov thats a different story. I keep a thermometer in the container and it flutuated from around 79 to 85 throughout 24 hours. I know when it cools off I'll have to make some kind of incubator.

 

[BrightReptiles]

So you had successful hatchlings with temps fluctuating that much? If so, that makes me feel better because I've been worried about my eggs

 

[jmntlbn]

The way I look at it is in nature you dont have perfectly controlled temps and they hatch. I dont think its as technical as some people make it.

 

[TranceZ]

Congrats! I had my first clutch egg hatch this season last night. Temps were about 82-83 took mine 51 days though. Also used perlite method

 

[UnicornSpirit]

I live in FL as well. I can barely even get the incubator to hold up the temp changes. I had to put a window AC unit in to keep the temp at 80 constantly to incubate at 84.

You should consider getting a proportional thermostat for your incubator if you don't use one already.