[camo]

As I have noticed many "Hotshots of GU" as you could call them with their massive impressive collections of geckos have seemed to fade into the shadows. When looking into the forums history there are maybe 5 other member who keep (kept) p. rosagularis. I currently still own my lonely female of 5 years. Only growing increasing older I worry about the species future in captivity. No one is really doing anything like breeding wise. So once whats left like my female dies...is that it for the species in captivity? All members left keeping rosagularis please respond, and anyone else with an idea or input please help.

Thank you
-Mitchell
geckosbymitchell@gmail.com

[Airedale]

To be honest, I had never even heard of rosagularis until I read this post. However, after doing a quick google search, I realize that I have been missing out on a beautiful species of gecko. Wow! I really hope they make a comeback... It would be a shame to lose them...

[Sporonicle]

Originally Posted by Airedale

To be honest, I had never even heard of rosagularis until I read this post. However, after doing a quick google search, I realize that I have been missing out on a beautiful species of gecko. Wow! I really hope they make a comeback... It would be a shame to lose them...

It is the exact same with me, and I completely agree that it would be a shame to lose this species.

[jadrig]

Do you have any males that are a closely related species/subspecies?
Attempt at crossbreeding is better than NOT breeding...IMO

[Sgvreptiles]

Unless importation from the wild happens(wouldnt hold my breath on that one), then they are most likely going to be near impossible to get(Europe probly being the only way). Sad to see that happen with so many species of geckos.

[lodewijk]

@ Camo,your female will die lonely since there are no Rosa's males left,that I know off,I know of 1 person in the States who bought some in Sweden (the Swedish male died 1 year ago) so I guess I am the only one left with a male,
legal in Europe but without Citespapers since they were born in Sweden!
Do not worry about the species future in captivity......because they have none......let them be happy in their little forest in Mauritius!
People tried to crossbreed with Guimbeaui but no succes,the specie is not related!
Then there is this next problem.....breeding of males.....2010 gave me 5 females and 2011 only 6 single eggs still to hatch.
all I can do at this moment is post a picture of my male with one of his females right after mating.

[camo]

Yes the whole situation is very unfortunate. I knew you "lodewijk" must have still had yours. Its really horrible I cant get a male from somewhere or even purchase one from Europe. As you said though does anyone really have any more males? I would just love to know how many that are left in captivity. Someone keeping a species like that surly is active in the Gecko community and I should hope reply to this thread.
I look into the old thread on "Phelsuma keepers" and find around 5 different account of people keeping them. I just dont understand what happened to everyone. Many of the people with massive collections seems to have not posted anything or even logged onto GU in years. Has the craze on rare geckos just died or something? Regardless something needs to be done for people like me in my situation.

[camo]

Im not sure if this exists or something but I believe it is a good idea. We need some kind of Gecko database for breeders and keeps to monitor how many of each species is in captivity and to just account for all the animals.

Something like a new section on Geckos unlimted. You click like "Gecko database" for instance and it could list every genus of Gekkonidae. Then you could select a genus, "Phelsuma" for instance and then scroll throw the species till you find the one you own. If I were registering my rosagularis you could say, I would click rosagularis. A list of other keepers would appear. I could then proceed to give information in a post with my name, a list of how many I currently own of each sex, an e-mail to contact me by, county you live in, and possibly a picture of the animal.

I think something like this could be very successful if it was done correctly. This would give the WHOLE gecko community the privilege of having everything laid out for us. We already have a place to go to get information and have our questions answered, but it lacks the ability to find people. This would be strictly to account for specimens in captivity and for people to look directly for other keeps for inquiries on that particular species.

This is kinda like the "Phelsuma keepers" thread but more in depths. There are so many geckos collector out there and no one has a way to possibly locate them all. Keeping tabs on the species as in there numbers is a great way to also know what species people should focus on breeding. Rare geckos species would benefit so much by this because everyone would know everyone!

[camo]

I can think of so many species I sit and wonder about how many people own them, were are they located, and whos doing what. Like how many Matoatoa brevipes, Ebenavia inunguis, Phelsuma inexpectata, Phelsuma serraticauda, Phelsuma pronki, paroedura masobe, paroedura gracilis, Uroplatus giganteus etc. etc. etc. are left in the captivity. (Just a few of my favorites). I mean does anyone else agree with my idea? People in the situation like im in now with my rosagularis would only benefit greatly from this!

[Sporonicle]

I really like your idea, it will especially help in locating where people are keeping them. Here in Canada, there are barely any uroplatus or other not super common geckos and they are very hard to find. I believe this would help people in the same countries get in contact with other people who are breeding species such as ptychozoon species, for which we need to build a captive bred population for, but this could also work for rare geckos, and geckos that usually come in wild caught, such as uroplatus.