Hatchling size

[MelissaSR]

I know some of you guys don’t weigh your babies when they hatch...yeah I am talking to you two lol! But I am curious of hatchling weight to incubation length. I haven’t had any hatch yet this year, so I am going to try and chart for my own curiosity the weight to incubation time. With cresteds there is a big difference in over all size and structure even in animals just 20 days apart.

If you have already had hatchlings this year, can you tell me how many days it incubated, how much it weighed, and why not throw in the temp you incubate at. Thanks!

And here is a throwback picture to the first two chahouas I ever produced

 

[Gray Sky Exotics]

Good question! My first clutch should hatch within the next week, so I’lll post an update then.

 

[Michael]

My first clutch should hatch soon also, so I will let you know temps, times and weights in the next few days

 

[MelissaSR]

@ArborealsAnonymous @Dragonborn Exotics (Ryan) This is the thread I was indicating at. Any data you can add to this would be greatly appreciated!

 

[ArborealsAnonymous]

 

[Dragonborn Exotics (Ryan)]

This isn't chahoua related but I will share anyways, a friend of mine who hatches lots of leachies every year told me he rarely sees any change in weight depending on incubation time. He has 2 incubators. One that is around 79-80 degrees for hatching males and the other around room temp for females. He told me he has leachies that hatch in under 3 months that weigh 11 grams and leachies that hatch in 5 months that weigh 11 grams.

I have some chahoua hatching soon so I will add my information when they do.

 

[MelissaSR]

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Thank you so much! Whats the temps you incubate at?

 

[MelissaSR]

This isn't chahoua related but I will share anyways, a friend of mine who hatches lots of leachies every year told me he rarely sees any change in weight depending on incubation time. He has 2 incubators. One that is around 79-80 degrees for hatching males and the other around room temp for females. He told me he has leachies that hatch in under 3 months that weigh 11 grams and leachies that hatch in 5 months that weigh 11 grams.

I have some chahoua hatching soon so I will add my information when they do.

I am trying to see if there is a cut off time. Like is there a significant difference between 85 days and 100 days? Is there a difference between 85 and 120 days? Most of mine in previous years hatch at 4-4g+, however mine were all around 150 days incubating. I am trying them at a higher temp this year so I am curious to see if I will notice a difference in size, or if my pairs just produce big babies.

 

[ArborealsAnonymous]

What size are your eggs? The largest difference I have noticed is that the largest babies are coming from MASSIVE eggs. Like leachie sized eggs lol.

 

[MelissaSR]

One thing I don't do is weigh my eggs

 

[ArborealsAnonymous]

Thats very curious to me, I feel like a lot of my chahoua girls are pretty large, but most of my babies have been between 3-3.5g except for Ember who has huge babies, but lays leachie sized eggs.

 

[Michael]

My first clutch of the year:

Baby 1:
86 days
84F
3.97g

Baby 2:
94 days
84F
3.32g

 

[MelissaSR]

@ArborealsAnonymous What is your average incubation temp?

and @MichaelMDG ty!

 

[ArborealsAnonymous]

Id say 78.5 is pretty average, it fluctuates from about 77 to 80 during the day/night

 

[Gray Sky Exotics]

Mainland - babe #1 & 2
Incubation: 117 days
Temp: 27-28’C
Hatch weight: 3.8g & 3.7g

Mainland - babe #3 & 4
Incubation: 106 days & 107 days
Temp: 26-27’C
Hatch weight: 3.2g & 3.3g

 

[MelissaSR]

@TroysGeckos I know you had a couple recent hatches, I need the info lol

 

[ArborealsAnonymous]

Here is an updated chart from this season, both of the dead eggs i wound up cutting several days after the clutch mate hatched when the eggs started to look off

 

[MelissaSR]

Here is an updated chart from this season, both of the dead eggs i wound up cutting several days after the clutch mate hatched when the eggs started to look off

Thank you! I will add this to my excel sheet

 

[Dragonborn Exotics (Ryan)]

Here is an updated chart from this season, both of the dead eggs i wound up cutting several days after the clutch mate hatched when the eggs started to look off

This is some good info. What temps are you incubating at again?

 

[Dragonborn Exotics (Ryan)]

Do we have a separate thread going for different gecko species hatchling sizes?