[Steven Busch]

A few of our breeders. The first is a gravid silver eye about ready to pounce on her second snail. Then is a Jahor normal and finally a Cameron Highlands male.

These are established animals and show some of the quality typically received from Malaysia.

[Afelinus]

Glad to see they are doing fine Steve.It gives me a sense of pleasure to know that they are in good hands and you will keep the localities specific when breeding,thus providing breeders true locale specific animals.

[Steven Busch]

Thanks Marcus. Janet applied some of her 15 years of Uroplatus raising and breeding knowledge and thought that her snail eating discovery with them may be one of the felinus calcium sources in the wild. Sure enough they pounced on them as fast as they hit the ground. Now my problem is she makes me run around late at night looking for stupid snails.

Steve Busch
steve@yoncallafrog.com

[Afelinus]

Sounds good for the geckos,but bad for you.All that extra calcium should make for a good year breeding.My walls sure look empty though.Guess I need to start breeding my new charges now.The new male already did his job,and that other male is back at again,so shouldn't be much longer before more eggs in the incubator.

[DDReptiles]

Great Looking Cat geckos Love that Cameron Highlands male!!

Marcus- are you starting to work with another species now?

[Afelinus]

Hey Derek,yeah,I have moved on after more than a 1/4 of my life with Felinus in my stead.I am working with Dwarf Monitors and a couple Rhacs.As Steve mentioned,his partner in the trenches is Janet Emery,who is an accomplished breeder with such delicate Gecko species as Uroplatus,and a true amphibian guru,which gave me the security of knowing my Locale Specific collection would be in good hands.

I have spent the past 4 years assembling a collection that would knock the socks off of anything out there as far as Felinus are concerned,but had come to a point that to continue would be more about other things than the geckos.I feel like all who put in the effort here succeeded in getting out good baseline information to other breeders,and importantly,the exporters,so these geckos arrived in very good condition than what we used to see in the late 80's,and to more prepared hands with the information now out there.Take care,Marcus.

[GenAureliano]

What kind of snails are you feeding them and where do you get them?

[Steven Busch]

I may have overlooked answering this thread and the snail question. We are feeding highly sought after European brown snails...the ones used for escargot. Of course most refer to them as the normal garden snail that eats everything in your yard. Just be sure you know of pesticides and fertilizer use in the area so you do not kill the geckos. If the snails are too big the geckos will not eat them, however our mountain horned lizards from Malaysia rip them to pieces and play tug-of-war with them.

[rhacoboy]

Just browsing through some old threads and came across this one. I'm absolutely in love with that cameron highlands male!!!!! I also love the silver eye gal.
Very nice gexx