[kenya_1977]

Update on these guys.

Doing great, eating like pigs. I'm actually surprised at how much they eat. I'm putting in 4-5 small hatchling roaches and seeing one left over the next day. So, I'm sure these guys are going to grow like weeds.

[Bowfinger]

I am suprised with the growth and apetite on subadults, what consisted of almost all of my imports. Hopefully you will establish if this is a fast to produce species as well. Usually this is the case of a species in need of fast growth and/or production forced by competition pressures, I am curious why in these guys?
By the way, I keep looking at my one egg in jelousy , but looks like I might have three gravid females, knock on cork bark.

[kenya_1977]

These guys are very active at lower temperatures. Their eating habits might simply support their activity level as compared to the ambush hunters that felinus are.

I know I recently was looking at care of Pristurus carteri. It showed that immature females that layed eggs typically only laid one at a time rather than the two that more mature individuals do. They were just as viable, but the eggs weren't nearly as robust as a more mature female. I think that's probably the case with yours, Shane. I take it you have them all housed together? It does show that they get to sexual maturity faster than most, and have an adaptation to reproduce at a younger age if need be. I'm wondering if there is any detriment to a younger female that lays.

[Bowfinger]

I have 2.8 right now in three cages...3 females per male cage. I only keep the mature male with my 3 older females and these are the ones possibly pregnant. The other cage has a young male, young female and two good sized females with no breeding activity.

I could introduce him to a few other females but I really want to have my bloodline clean of inbreeding. I figure I will do 3.9 (w/c) in the future, 1.3 groups and that would give me the play for a nice project, later to trade for new blood.

I would actually introduce based on maturity size and not age, I would never want to introduce a female that is small in size to a breeder male.

[Bowfinger]

Crystal, do you have Malaysian temps a month before and at the time of capture and trip home? I want to get an idea of temps that initiate breeding etc. Hope your little guys are growing and doing well.

[kenya_1977]

This female had been in the importers care for some time. I do know that temps out in the field while we were there were ranging from 67-73 if I remember correctly. Under the canopy it might not have dropped that much, but I know morning temps at the hotel were 67.

[Afelinus]

I've got them written down,along with relative air humidity.They vary also because of rain one night.1st night when Crystals gravid female was found, at 11:30 pm, it was 77f with a 92% RAH,2nd night when 2 Felinus were found at once by our guide at 12:27am, it was 75f with 96% RAH,it had rained this night.These are the same areas shared by Elok,same bitopes,as they prefer the undergrowth,and high grass.I believe this explains why they are web-footed compared to the other Cyrtodactylus that arent,and the others typically prefer boulders or the occasional tree.The web-footing would make it easier to traverse the high grass.Man I cant wait for 08 to go back.

[kenya_1977]

Oh yeah, it did get up to 77. We were going out around 9pm-12am their time, so it was before the cool down of the night.