04-12-2014, 02:34 PM
Hey, congratulations.
Getting the right temperature is very important. It would be better to have more girls.
How are you doing with the humidity? Eggs do need it moist, but they can't actually be wet. Of course the eggs will be in a separate box in the incubator. You need to do that because you could have more than one set of eggs at a time, with two different hatch dates. You don't want newly hatched babies climbing over early stage eggs.
A Rubbermaid shoe box is perfect for mealworms. They breed pretty easy so you should have no trouble. The ideal is to get them breeding enough so that you do not need to buy them. Meal worms are the only thing worth breeding. Crickets are too much work and they can be tricky. I do have baby crickets in some of my tanks, but I can't catch them. They are just there as lizard snack food.
Getting the right temperature is very important. It would be better to have more girls.
How are you doing with the humidity? Eggs do need it moist, but they can't actually be wet. Of course the eggs will be in a separate box in the incubator. You need to do that because you could have more than one set of eggs at a time, with two different hatch dates. You don't want newly hatched babies climbing over early stage eggs.
A Rubbermaid shoe box is perfect for mealworms. They breed pretty easy so you should have no trouble. The ideal is to get them breeding enough so that you do not need to buy them. Meal worms are the only thing worth breeding. Crickets are too much work and they can be tricky. I do have baby crickets in some of my tanks, but I can't catch them. They are just there as lizard snack food.
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Catherine
