robertc
Member
Concerning incubation temperatures in general, I have almost stopped to read articles after I had the bad luck in the first year of incubation of verrucosus. I started to search for average temperatures in the locality (weather.msn.com was very good for it, but they have changed the pages recently and I cannot find most of the information any longer there) and I also asked some people involved in physics to confirm that 20cm deep in soil, the temperature almost does not change during the day. So I follow the monthly averages (in fact the average of the low and high temperatures) and assume that the breeding occurs in the middle of summer. And it works. At least for verrucosus and panters.
Constant temperatures are very popular in our country because there is less work with such an incubation and moreover, everyone here started with veileds, who are successfully incubated this way.
For verrucosus, at the beginning I was suggested 24-25 first 45days, 15-18 next 45 days, 24-25 the rest.
By my experience, it is not important whether the first period lasts 45 or maybe 75 days (I guess that the breeders suggesting these temperatures have reasons to hurry, but the winter actually does no come so quickly), similarly for the second period and I also had 10 degrees without any problems. But the problems occured when passing between the second and the third period by a jump in temperatures. Therefore I prefer to increase the temperatures continuously (say, one degree Celsius weakly; the same way as in the wild nature).
The adult male spends winter in a cold room, 15-17 degrees. He does not need a heating bulb, he does not like light. Last winter, when I did not have a cage for him and left him on a ficus benjamina near the window, he went away and spent the winter sleeping in bed.
Constant temperatures are very popular in our country because there is less work with such an incubation and moreover, everyone here started with veileds, who are successfully incubated this way.
For verrucosus, at the beginning I was suggested 24-25 first 45days, 15-18 next 45 days, 24-25 the rest.
By my experience, it is not important whether the first period lasts 45 or maybe 75 days (I guess that the breeders suggesting these temperatures have reasons to hurry, but the winter actually does no come so quickly), similarly for the second period and I also had 10 degrees without any problems. But the problems occured when passing between the second and the third period by a jump in temperatures. Therefore I prefer to increase the temperatures continuously (say, one degree Celsius weakly; the same way as in the wild nature).
The adult male spends winter in a cold room, 15-17 degrees. He does not need a heating bulb, he does not like light. Last winter, when I did not have a cage for him and left him on a ficus benjamina near the window, he went away and spent the winter sleeping in bed.
