Hello all and happy new year! I recently got a pair of Pachydactylus capensis from a German seller in Hamm. He did not have much information on them. I wanted a female for my big male, and finally bought the pair from this German guy. When I got the animals, I was fairly surprised by the size, color...
I have actually held the first live ones collected in 40 years in my hands. Wulf Haacke discovered these after having gone back to the same part of Angola where he found them so many years ago. He then used DNA on the new captives to complete the description of the species. This animal was also bre...
Pinhead crickets, they are much more nutritious than wingless fruitflies, and occasionally red runner roaches babies (B. lateralis). Thanks for your kind comments
Very nice gecko's and enclosures, just out curiosity how do you enclosures open? I can't seem to figure it out. It looks like you slide the front panel up . That's right for the smaller ones, it helps preventing small and fast species from escaping. For larger species I use either ExoTerra enclosur...
Parts of my gecko collection. Pachydactylus haackei CB pair http://i40.tinypic.com/2lkfgba.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/2w50g14.jpg Afroedura loveridgei CB trio- I'm the first European to have hatched some juveniles. http://i39.tinypic.com/znkhah.jpg Juveniles hatched at home: http://i43.tinypic.com/a...
Djinn, I am French and I have a small group of Pteonpus kochi . They are the biggest members of the genus and far easier than garrulus , as they accept crickets without problems, though you have to vary their diet. I have had no breeding so far, my male is still too young, but I will pair them later...