[wolfyhound]

Hello all. I registered back quite a ways, but somehow lost the page here and stopped coming. Since then, I did get my AFT geckos(got 1.1 het amel, and a striped normal f). I bred them last season, and although my male ended up dying, the two females did quite well. I got several eggs, most of which went bad. 2 did good, but only one actually hatched a live baby. So I did hatch a single baby AFT last season. He's a doll!

This year at Daytona, I picked up a striped amel male AFT, from JMG. So I hope this season to get better eggs and hatch some more geckos. I really have decided these AFT are an awesome species to work with. They are so placid.

No thread like this is any fun without pics, so here's pics of the geckos.

This is Amper(the het amel F). Is she too fat? I swear her tail looks like it will explode.


This is Bruin(striped normal F)


My unnamed hatchling from last year(could be het amel?) is he/she normal?


Finally the new male amel Cracker


Currantly, the 2 females have a 20L tank, while the hatchling and new male both have bins(in my snake room, but seperate from the snakes, obviously). I have some mealworms, superworms, wax worms, but they mostly eat crickets(dusted a couple times a week). Everyone is on papertowels, and has humid hides and also a small dish of the calcium supplemnt available. The new male is not very active at all(why I put him in the bin rather than a 10g I have available) and I worry although it could just be him settling in.

I look forward to talking about the AFTs here! I'm afraid I'm not super up-to-date on all the latest morphs, but I love to see them and learn more about them.

[vegasgrl529]

Wow, Amper's tail is HUGE!
Congratulations on having beautiful AFT's. Your hatchlings are really adorable, especially your unnamed one <3

[wolfyhound]

Only the unnamed one is a hatchling of mine. The others were all bought as sub-adults. But thanks!!

Yeah, I worry that Amper is too fat, but I was laughed at about the idea that a fat-tail could have too fat of a tail, so maybe my worries are silly!

[IslaReina]

Gorgeous geckos! Especially Cracker, I can't wait to get my hands on a striped amel fat tail after I get out of college!

[FlyvAgaric]

Nice Congrats !

[geckofactory]

To be honest, she really looks too fat, you should set her on a diet or it could cause a liver disease. Did you let a vet have a look at scat samples of your females and the new male? Having a male dying out of nothing is not normal in my eyes, but since you want to breed with the new one anyway, I'm sure you'll get them checked before putting them together.

Other than that, beautiful geckos, and congratulations on your hatchling.

yours,
Fabrizio

[gizmo143]

I love Cracker!

[Aris3kil]

Awsome geckos and congrats on your baby!
P.S. Amper seems normal to me as I've seen quite a few fat tails tha look like this

[geckofactory]

Just because they look like this doesn't necessarily mean it's normal. I've seen a lot of obese people as well, but I don't think that it's really natural or healthy at all.

yours,
Fabrizio