Hi Jared,
90-100 days at 68-77 F (day/night) is about normal for incubation.
If it's less than 80 days, incubation temperature is too high.
4 months is about the max time for incubation.
Your female will need extra calcium before the next clutch,
either snails or oral calcium will work.
Neil
Ne
Hi,
This only a test. I've had trouble posting lately.
Neil
Neil Meister
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6450 Young St. Suite 4, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3L 2A3
Phone: (902) 455-0133 Fax: (902) 455-0212
www.semaphor.ca
Thanks for the congrats. Life is certainly different already!
The gecko room is currently a "state". The "art" is coming slowly : )
Neil
Hi Neil & Dee---
Congratulations on your new family! Been thinking about you four
alot lately, ever since you posted earlier this summer about your
new home with
Hi Leann and All,
Recent delays in publications are due largely to life-changing
events of the past 6 months that have taken all my free time.
Things are getting back to normal now that we've moved
except that Dee and I will be adoptive parents of two wonderful
children in about two weeks : )
Gekko
Hi All,
I got this link from Wes von Papineau:
http://www.geckosinparadise.com/
Neil
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ot better after removing the dead skin.
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Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [gecko]head infection in U. phantasticus
Hi Mike,
That is a nasty looking injury.
>
Hi Mike,
That is a nasty looking injury.
Betadine won't hurt, but I would keep watching the other
geckos. Skin problems heal better with Vit E supplemenation.
You can simply take a droplet of goo out of a capsule and put
it on the tip of their snout.
This was recommended to me by vets when I ran in
We worried about this too, I have a couple hundred geckos and a lot of cages.
Our house sold to the first people who walked in the door on the first day
for a record-setting price. We actually had 2 offers out of the first 3
people who saw it. After that things got crazy, but that's another story..
Hi Danny,
I bred them for a few years, interesting little critters, very tough.
I kept them dry with a light misting in the evening. A tall cage
with a 10w halogen for a basking site worked fine. daytime temperature
was probably 78-84, a bit warmer directly under the light. Cooler nights
didn't bo
varium. But I wouldn't want to risk reinfection.
Anyway,
that's the update. I'm not really sure what coccidia does to geckos
but it seems to be a bad thing in poultry
livestock.
Mike
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ecko? I've been taking it for granted that they haven't
tried but they do have really sticky feet.
Mike
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Subject: Re: [gecko]how do I quarantine LTC U.
ebenaui
Hi Mike,
I&#
I will try
your quarantine method. I don't know where to get brown paper towels
but I suppose I could swipe a few from a public bathroom
;o)
Thanks
again.
Mike
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Title: Re: [gecko]how do I quarantine LTC U.
ebenaui
Hi Mike,
Quarantine for LTC is the same as for WC. It is definitely worth
finding out what the problem
is before treating as the wrong meds will do no good and stress a
weakened animal.
How long is LTC in this case?
What you're seeing is not
Title: Uroplatus article
acknowledgements
Hi All,
I noticed Reptiles did not include my acknowledgements section in
the
Uroplatus article they recently published, so here it is as I
think these
folks deserve the thanks:
Acknowledgements
Without the advice
of other hobbyists, I would have given
Title: Re: [gecko]dream Uro cage and
light...
Hi Jared,
I have no problem at with compacts, I just haven't used them as
my cages are all in rows
on shelves, I chose to use tubes. Compacts we're fairly new when
my room was setup.
For Uros, you have to use D3, good UVB or both. Based on my own
ex
My wife would disagree, I nearly got tossed out on my ear
over the stench! : )
Neil
"Moss, Its Whats for Dinner"
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Title: Re: [gecko]debugging local moss for
vivaria
Interesting idea. The sphagnum is something of a sponge and
would
take a lot of rinsing/squeezing. The chemicals would have to be
ultra safe
as it would be hard to be sure if you got it all out.
Can anyone suggest a particular product?
Neil
Hi
I've tried this, the smell of nuked moss was awful!
Some bugs were not easily killed this way unless it was
cooked a good while.
Neil
You might try a short stint in a microwave oven. Kills bugs dead.
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Thanks for all of the moss suggestions, I may give some a try.
I sometimes use live pillow moss as is, what I'm mostly looking
for is ways to clean parasites and foreign insects out moss that
is used as disposable (compostable) substrate for arboreal gex.
I remove the moss as it gets soiled, it's g
Herps priced drastically below market price. The famous
"throw-away" herp. Has created a type of customer that is not
willing to invest anything in the care of the herp for obvious
reasons (I can always get another one). I am sorry to see the
Rhacodactylus ciliatus (Crested New Caledonian) fal
Hi Julie,
The timing of the article and an abundance of cheap imports is unfortunate.
It was written over a year ago, so it's purely coincidental. I did include
a fair bit about acclimation of wc gex, if anyone actually reads it they have
more than a fighting chance. I started my projects, perhaps
I've hatched quite a few henkeli (100+) and haven't had any I would
call "biters".
Some are very aggressive feeders and will latch onto a finger if it's
waved in front of them like
lunch, but I haven't had any bite me for other reasons. Wc animals
are sometimes nervous enough
to bite. I've had a
Hi Michael,
If you go for it, let us know how it goes.
Here's a link to kingsnake that explains it well,
it's about export/import between the US and Canada,
but the export procedure should be similar for other
countries. http://www.kingsnake.ca/imp_exp.html
Neil
Thank you for the help. Michael
Hi Michael,
You would have to get an export license from USFWS ($50 or so)
plus have the animals inspected before you can ship them out (another $5O-55).
If you're not near a port of exit/entry, you would have to hire a
broker and ship
through a designated port of exit (add another $100). There i
Deli cups can be bought in bulk at some grocery wholesale/cash and
carry stores.
Grocery stores may even sell them to you if they're in a good mood.
Neil
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I've been searching for a vendor of shipping materials
(particularly deli cups) in Canada, preferably online, but I
Males are often slimmer than females.
Neil
Thanks for all the advice and tips. It's just been eating at me
that my male has always been substantially slimmer than my female.
They're both active and apparently healthy, but he's so much smaller
that I've always worried about his health. Maybe h
Title: Re: [gecko]Complaints Against
Petshops
Well said.
Take my favorite gecko genus, Uroplatus, for example. If our
hobby didn't exist,
who outside of Madagascar would even know they exist other than a
handful of biologists?
Who would care if they disappeared from the face of the Earth?
People
I've had very good luck with Allen's food and Rhacs. The gargoyle and
leachies love it,
makes raising hatchlings much easier. Most of the ciliatus were converted by
mixing in babyfood. The ciliatus don't eat huge quantities (unlike
the other 2 species
that like the cups clean), but it's a more co
Hi TQ,
I've kept them under different lighting conditions with no problems.
I recommend a florescent strip for general lighting and a small
spot light (approx. 25 W) near the top end of a cork tube.
They will come to the top of the tube and hang out to bask.
This is very important for females.
Nei
Hi Michael,
Awesome! I really hope these guys get established in captivity,
they just look so primitive.
Just curious, how did you get the parents acclimated?
They have such a bad reputation that I've stayed away from them
(I already have enough "difficult" species!).
Thanks for sharing,
Neil
Hell
Sounds like coccidia to me, very common in dragons and gex.
It can be treated, but takes work and exceptional hygiene.
I've treated many imports, most have tested negative even years after,
but sometimes it is very stubborn and continually recurs. It doesn't
necessarily make the geckos sick, but if
Hi All,
I have an inquiry about care info for D. pulcher.
I haven't kept them, does anyone out there have experience
or literature references?
Thanks,
Neil
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Preside
Hi Denise,
I've only rarely seen symptoms anything like what you describe.
One involved a gecko that had Cestodes which were missed on initial fecals.
One explanation I received was that this could have resulted in a B12
deficiency that causes the neurological symptoms. The animal did recover
with
Hi Julie,
Photo came through fine here!
We arrived home late Wednesday night tired from 12 hours travel,
but otherwise happy!
As an added bonus, I had several hatchlings waiting for me (1 U. guentheri,
3 U. phantasticus, 1 N. milii, 2 R. auriculatus, 1 leo plus a newly laid
spiny Uro egg to boot!
Title: RE: [gecko]Import/export
permit
Thanks, that helps!
Neil
Here you
go!
http://forms.fws.gov/lertnaddr.html
Matt and Susan
High Quality Reptiles
www.hqreptiles.com
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Title: Import/export permit
Does anyone have contact info for obtaining a US
import/export permit for wildlife?
Thanks,
Neil
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Nova Scotia Herpetocu
istened. Paper towel strips are then used in a curling manner and
one strip is stuck in the lid that runs down so they can have
something stable to hang onto/hide behind.
Julie Bergman
http://www.geckoranch.com
GGA lifetime member
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Hi All,
Does anyone have experience/tips fo
Hi All,
Does anyone have experience/tips for shipping geckos in hot weather?
I've found a company that may be able to ship some animals to Daytona
for me, but it will take 2 days given brokerage/inspection. I'm
worried about heat in August. Being up North, I'm more used to dealing
with cold.
Thank
Hi All,
I haven't had much time for posting lately, so I thought I'd summarize
what's been happening with my Uroplatus projects:
The mysterious Vitamin E deficiency in some of my cb U. phantasticus
seems to have cleared up with
some extra oral supplementing and switching to Herp Nutrition product
Hi All,
Any Canadians out there with recent experience flying internationally with gex?
I've been having a heck of a time figuring out how to bring gex with
me to Daytona.
So far the airline I usually use won't ship them due to it likely
being too hot, another
uses a local partner that can't ac
roplatus and
Mantella as "spokesherps".
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Subject: [gecko]Madagascar conservation charities?
Hi All,
Does anyone know of any conse
Hi All,
Does anyone know of any conservation charities working directly
in Madagascar? I'm looking for something to donate to that will
have a direct benefit to the wildlife and people there as way of
saying "thanks" for all of the wonderful gex I get to work with.
Neil
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