Guide to Breeding Leopard Geckos

I choose to do an article about breeding leopard geckos because i've always had a pair of a mated pair but i have never succeeded in any way. Mainly because of my lack of experience at the time but now maybe i can have more luck next time. What i liked about this article is the fact that it helped me understand more about how to actually get a fertile healthy clutch of eggs. Something that i never actually really had. First, you need to sex your geckos the right way. If you look at their vents, male geckos will have a bump directly below the vent and a "v" shape of femoral pores, this bump is called a hemipenes. Now if you have a female, you won't have a hemipene and it will just be a vent and a non noticeable row of pores. Once you have properly sexed your geckos, you need to put them into a breeders tank together. Usually for more success, breeders will put 1 male leopard gecko in a cage with 3 female leopard geckos. But you can't just choose any female gecko, she needs to have enough calcium and fat stored in her tail to last her through the breeding season, considering she will not eat as much just like the ball pythons. To prep your cage you will want to have a laying box for the female to burrow in and lay her eggs. Fill the box about half way full of vermiculite or perlite.You will know w hen your gecko is about to lay eggs because you will see the eggs through her skin considering they will be very noticeable. Once she lays you will have to incubate the eggs, but make sure that the eggs are not rolled, it is preferable that you mark a dot on the top of the eggs so you don't flip them. Sex of the babies are determined by the temp of the incubation period, for females you want to keep the temp at 81 degrees. for males you would want to keep your temperatures a little bit higher from 85-87ish.