[SaSobek]

Well being a leo breeder, I wanted to try something new. last October i was at a show in PA and these guys caught my eye.

I got them as wild caught, (I think they are G. hainanensis but not sure they were just sold as cave geckos) I know I know not the best idea. but wanted to try something new. So i asked if they had more. and they pulled out a tub of about 50 cave geckos. All of them were missing tails or had regrown tails and they all looked skinny and in need of some water. as i was looking in the tub i saw this one

being a leo breeder and the quest of the all black leo, I was like, "i want that one". It looked so different and you never know it could be genetic (but just might be faded) It was a male so just had to buy some girls. out of the 50 there was like 6 girls. and 2 looked realy bad so i bought the other 4.
So i got a group of 1.4.

In feb, I was cleaning and saw that. the females were ovulating. looked around the cage and found 4 eggs. layed in the coco fiber. so had to cage the tank a bit so they could lay the eggs in a spot so I could get them alittle easier
I put in a few "lay boxes" and tryed to hide them a bit. The cage is in my room and i didnt want to make it look like a breeding cage ( i have that downstairs with the leos) so this is what i came up with.


as you can see in the pics tons of hidding in the cage, i almost never see them hahaha. but i have two lay boxes and then some other hidding in the front of the cage that they use as a bathroom. That makes cleaning easy they all poop in the same spot, so so nice.

here is the cage fully done.




its an AP cage it has a 50 watt red heat bulb in the top that i leave on. a strip light in the top that i have on during the day. the ground level is realy cool and damp but they can also. climb higher to the heat and dryness.

and here is the cool part.



So far 18 eggs and they all look good ( in the pic the two big ones are crested eggs).

I dont know how many more eggs that they have in them the one looks like it still has 2 more in her belly. I dont know how easy/hard these guys are to breed but for wild caught im happy. Just cant wait to see the babies. and with any luck maybe the male might be something different.
here are some pics of the rest of them. They are still kinda fat for all laying eggs. they look better after laying then how i got them. like i said they were in bad shape but they look happy now.




Male head shot

male and one of the girls

one of the females head shot





hope you enjoyed. i love these guys.

[LG-Geckos]

I love them too
They´re simply amazing, Thanks for sharing.

[Geckos and Goannas]

Very nice hiananensis! I didnt know you kept them!

[SaSobek]

Originally Posted by Geckos and Goannas

Very nice hiananensis! I didnt know you kept them!

well like i said i have 1.4 but now 18 eggs so we will see what hatches

[sciteacher]

Well, they've been prolific for you haven't they? Are any of the eggs getting close to hatching? I'd like to put together a Goni breeding group at some point. I just keep a single G. hainanensis currently. Would love to pick up a pair of G. luii, but if I can't find them, I'll probably end up adding some more hainanensis.

Gary

[BSM]

sweet job, im actually am buying a pair or trio of these in a few weeks. Its veing hard to find healthy ones though

[pab25]

Very cool!! I've never worked with any kind of cave gecko, but they look really cool!! Great work!!