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Post by lizzerd on May 10, 2014 19:14:38 GMT
Hi all
I now have two clutches of bilineata eggs in the incubator one yesterday and one today, a full month earlier than last year. great start
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Post by viridis on May 11, 2014 16:37:29 GMT
Thats good. Do you noose your female lizards or let them lay naturally in the greenhouse? I am considering noosing my females as I have trouble finding the eggs in the larger vivaria.
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Post by lizzerd on May 11, 2014 17:46:34 GMT
The first, although showing egg lumps, took me by surprise being so early so she layed in the greenhouse. luckily I had spotted the hole she dug and even caught her filling it in, so I knew where to look. I usually remove them when I see them digging, as I did the second. Never needed a noose for the bilineata but may need it for my female eyed lizard as she is more flighty.
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Post by chrisd on May 11, 2014 20:11:41 GMT
That's great news lizzerd, the weather was pretty bad early last year. I've been watching my females carefully. I noted down when they mated and I assume they lay approximately 4 to 6 weeks after, which is in the next few weeks, the same as last year. Last year I nearly missed the eggs and only found them by chance as they were so well hidden and the females didn't show any obvious signs after laying. I've put a box in the cage with damp sand but I'm not holding my breath that they will use it but it's worth a chance. Otherwise it's back to stripping the cage out to have a good look around.
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Post by viridis on May 13, 2014 7:41:35 GMT
I am interested. Is the roof of your greenhouse glass or mesh? Do you have problems with ultraviolet?D3 issues if the roof is glass?
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Post by lizzerd on May 13, 2014 17:00:03 GMT
All the glass in the front south facing roof slope is removed around the end of April and covered with nylon mesh then replaced around October/November time. The rest is just normal glass, no uv transmitting acrylic at all in the greenhouse although I do have it in the front of the two coldframes and I have no problems
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Post by viridis on May 14, 2014 8:50:29 GMT
Thats interesting. It will remind me to get my U.V. meter out and check the levels between natural sunlight, u.v. transmitting acrylic and glass.
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