Sarah
10-26-2005, 07:02 AM
Well I have just witnessed the weirdest thing. I'm sure all you experienced breeders will laugh your socks off at my astonishment, but have to tell you all.
I threw a load of crickets into the Taens enclosure, the door bell rang, and leaving the light on in their room I went to answer it.
About half an hour later I come back into the room, and the male is, for want to a better word, 'tugging' at his urmmm...manhood. He had managed to get some substrate on it, and was tugging and licking to clean it off.
The female, little flirt that she is, was not only turning around to lick herself, but was also pulling herself across the floor with her front legs and wriggling her female parts in the dirt as she went like a dog with worms. She is such a lady.
Anyway, I'm assuming that they did the business whilst I was answering the door as I can think of no other explanation for it. Honestly...she laid her egg not much more than 12 hours ago and they are already getting to it and with the light on too!!! They normally don't move a muscle with the light on.
Managed to get a few shots before the batteries on my camera ran out (typical timing!)
Hope it doesn't gross anybody out. I figured there might be some people who would be interested in seeing it. Has anybody else seen this behaviour at all in their geckos? They are fine now, and have gone back to chasing crickets.
Anyway, you can all stop laughing at me now, hehehe...spot the newbee!!!
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b169/saz1980/dscf0032.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b169/saz1980/dscf0030.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b169/saz1980/dscf0038.jpg
I threw a load of crickets into the Taens enclosure, the door bell rang, and leaving the light on in their room I went to answer it.
About half an hour later I come back into the room, and the male is, for want to a better word, 'tugging' at his urmmm...manhood. He had managed to get some substrate on it, and was tugging and licking to clean it off.
The female, little flirt that she is, was not only turning around to lick herself, but was also pulling herself across the floor with her front legs and wriggling her female parts in the dirt as she went like a dog with worms. She is such a lady.
Anyway, I'm assuming that they did the business whilst I was answering the door as I can think of no other explanation for it. Honestly...she laid her egg not much more than 12 hours ago and they are already getting to it and with the light on too!!! They normally don't move a muscle with the light on.
Managed to get a few shots before the batteries on my camera ran out (typical timing!)
Hope it doesn't gross anybody out. I figured there might be some people who would be interested in seeing it. Has anybody else seen this behaviour at all in their geckos? They are fine now, and have gone back to chasing crickets.
Anyway, you can all stop laughing at me now, hehehe...spot the newbee!!!
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b169/saz1980/dscf0032.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b169/saz1980/dscf0030.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b169/saz1980/dscf0038.jpg