Oedura rhombifer hatching

[slacker]

Checked in on the eggs at around 8am this morning, saw nothing interesting. Checked again around midday and noticed they were sweating quite visibly. Now, at around 3pm, they've both pipped.

Excuse the terrible photos.

 

[gecko-mad]

Awesome stuff mate, are they on perlite?

 

[dtulip10]

hey i am not familiar with this geko species. what are you incubating them on?

 

[slacker]

Cheers guys.

It's perlite. This year we used dry perlite over 60:40 vermiculite for the pythons. I'd planned to do the same with these, but either ran out of vermiculite or couldn't find it. In the end, I just put them on 50:50 perlite with a dry layer over the top.

Oedura rhombifer are not common in captivity, dtulip, so that's probably why you're not familiar with them

 

[dtulip10]

Awesome stuff mate, are they on perlite?

ahh you just answered m question.

 

[slacker]

First one is out already:

Photo of mum:

 

[warren63]

Sweet good luck with them !!! Now the fun job of feeding those little guys. What was the incubation period ?

 

[geckos_are_great]

awsome

 

[slacker]

Sweet good luck with them !!! Now the fun job of feeding those little guys. What was the incubation period ?

Cheers Warren

They took exactly sixty days, but I didn't have them in the big (more stable) incubator, just a little dodgy thing that barely held temps any better than ambient.

awsome

Cheers

 

[GeckoJosh]

Nice pics, thanks for sharing

 

[Sarah]

congrats they look quite big the hatchies .

 

[slacker]

Nice pics, thanks for sharing

congrats they look quite big the hatchies .

Thanks

I suppose that depends on your perception of 'big.' Here's a photo with something for scale:

 

[geckos_are_great]

omg soo small

 

[moosenoose]

Great stuff Slacker!

 

[Bretsta]

awesome mate. good work

 

[Sarah]

thanks that does put it into perspective .

 

[geckoman1985]

wow get these heps here i did not know thay were in captivity and yes hatchling can be tiny i seen some as small as about 2cm in lengh by the way are adults the smallest velvet in australia