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incubator temps ?

BRoSKO

BRoSKO

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Hey i have been reading that you can incubate geckos at certain temps and get mostly males/females is this true for corns also ?
 
I'm pretty sure this issue came up before, and the consensus was it doesn't make any difference at all for corns. I know it works for alligators and crocodiles though. :)
 
I have heard people make claims that they got all males or females at a certain temp. but this just seems to be coincidental. Temp does not determine corn's sex.
 
Naah, there's no truth to it with corns. It works with other reptiles but with corns it's determined by the female snake (just like in humans it's the father who will give either an x or a y chromosome to the baby to determine gender).

Just stick to 29 Celcius and you can't go too wrong.

Good luck,
A
 
*cough* Corns arent temperature sexed, but temps gender can be affected by the temps, last year I had two clutches of reverse okeetees that came out 12.2 and 9.1 . The temps ususaly stayed in the higher end 80% of the time. dropping a bit everynight, and a few times the temps went up to 90-97 degrees, yea I know but with idiot roomates in a apartment in the desert temps will never stay the same.
 
I think that your results would have been down to Murphy. Either they are or are not temperature sexed but not a little of both.

Cornsnakes gender is determined by which gender the eggs are programmed for (that the female passes on) but not by temperature like with crocodilians.
 
Forgot to mention the previous clutches that I had in this apartment were around the same with extremely high male count. also after those clutches I asked around a lot and found out that high heat can kill the female chromosone
 
I've incubated snake eggs on a "put in a warm place" basis. Temperature routinely got up to 90 (and sometimes above that) in the afternoons. I got a decent sex distribution.
 
Yeah i didn't think it was true for corns but thought i would ask ... Thanks for all your replies :sidestep:
 
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