More babies!

daggekko · #1 09-13-2011, 07:51 AM

Hatched out another 2 Gold Dusts yesterday.

My count is now at 7 baby Gold Dusts!

**Graham_s** · #2 09-13-2011, 12:27 PM

Congratulations

What else do you have incubating?
Can you post some photos up for us?

Hannibal · #3 09-13-2011, 02:17 PM

Congrats! Amazing how tiny they are.

Sgvreptiles · #4 09-13-2011, 03:29 PM

Congrats Adam! I just found 2 P. parkeri hatchlings.

hexentanz · #5 09-13-2011, 04:00 PM

Adam do you have to house them separately or do they get along ok like klemmeri hatchlings?

daggekko · #6 09-13-2011, 06:41 PM

Graham, do you want photos of the eggs I have incubating?? I have 6 Phelsuma pasteuri eggs in the incubator but I really think 4 are not going to hatch. 2 are cracked/moldy, 2 when candled have a black spot and are more yellowish, and the other 2 I'm just not sure on. I found and moved them and wish now I would have left them in the adult enclosure.

I'm really hoping to have some P b. borbonica eggs soon! I found a dud egg a few weeks ago, but haven't seen anymore eggs out of the 2 girls yet. Plus their bellies aren't quite as translucent as the other geckos, so I can't tell if they are gravid or not. I just set up a second pair of P laticauda, so as long as they get along I'll get more eggs from them, my first pair female is showing another single egg in her belly and my P pasteuri hasn't laid in a while, so I'm expecting soon!

Jeff, I want a pair of the P parkeri!!!! Send me a PM. You should post some pictures too!!

Maureen, I keep the babies together for around 1-3 months before they start really not liking each other. One set of babies I seperated after 4 months-one of these was constantly hiding at the bottom of the enclosure. The other set I seperated after 2 months. My baby P pasteuri were about to be seperated but I sold one. All the babies I have hatched are ok for the first month until one becomes more dominate. Then the one gets bigger and chases the smaller one around. Not had any injuries(knock on wood) due to this though. I imagine if I didn't feed them so much food I'd have a lot more problems.

**Graham_s** · #7 09-13-2011, 06:47 PM

Sorry, no I meant photos of the hatchlings!
Sorry to hear that some of your other eggs don't look any good. You might as well keep incubating them though, you never know what might happen!

Fingers crossed that you get some eggs from your other Phelsuma species

Sgvreptiles · #8 09-13-2011, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by daggekko

Jeff, I want a pair of the P parkeri!!!! Send me a PM. You should post some pictures too!!

All my parkeri are going to a local breeder as hes got quite a group of them and is looking for more. Sadly I killed one of the hatchlings on accedent today. First time thats ever happened and really kicking my self in the ass for it. But heres the one that made it.

daggekko · #9 09-13-2011, 07:18 PM

Yeah, I am going to keep incubating them for a while. At least until I feel sure non will hatch.

Baby pictures-The babies aren't always to keen on taking photos, but I am putting a bunch on this post. I think if you click on the picture it will take you to my webshots.com albums. You can look around there and see some pictures as well. Some of that stuff is from back in the 2001-2003 time frame, some is inbetween and some is recent.

daggekko · #10 09-13-2011, 07:24 PM

Well don't kick yourself too hard Jeff, you still have to take care of the rest of the reptiles! Shit happens sometimes unfortunately.