[Traillizard]

Is the care for levis, pilberensis, and occ all the same? Are they all equally hardy? In other words, if I have successfully kept and bred Levis, should I assume that I could have the same success with pilberensis and occidentals? Thanks!

[hognose]

Gonna post my standard caveat, 25 yrs with reptiles but < 2 with Nephrurus so take it with a grain of salt.

I can't speak to Occidentalis but I have Levis, Deleani, and Pilbarensis. I'd say Deleani are the same as Levis or possibly even easier (very aggressive feeders) and Pilbarensis are a bit different than the others. Don't know that I'd say they were more difficult but they clearly require a little something different than my other Neph's have needed.

I hadn't had a single bad shed with my neph's until I added the pilbars to my group, increasing the amount of moisture in the sand on the cool end addressed that pretty quickly. IME you'll run into trouble if you don't keep the cool end more moist for pilbar's than is generally indicated for Levis.

Chris