[Kass]

I just got a Frog eyed female about a week, ago. I /think/ she's T. roborowski, but the dealer just had her listed as a 'Russian Frog Eyed Gecko' so I'm not sure. She's WC and I'm unsure of her age, but she does seem to have some slight scale damage to the back of her head, which indicates breeding I'm guessing. I don't /think/ she's gravid, but the scales haven't grown back which from my research indicates it's a reasonably recent wound.

This doesn't seem like the right season for her to be laying eggs, but is there any easy way to tell if she is going to? Or is this likely a random old wound from something else?

Currently I've got her in a 20L tank, there's a damp sand pile in half the tank to a depth of about 4 inches and clean paper towels on the other side. There's a shallow water dish I fill daily. She's got two hides off the sand as well as one on it, a heat mat under one of the hides, a 75W blue night bulb which keeps the hide side in the mid 80s and a red 75W night bulb on the sand during the day. (I haven't gotten the thermometer on that side yet to check the temp) At night she just has the blue light and the heat pad, but I'm tempted to turn off the light there as well, to get things cooler. Is this a good setup or is there anything I should change? I've found the care sheets on these guys to be somewhat incomplete, so I've just been trying my best.

The other questions I had, I've seen some information that they hibernate in the winter, which means she should be asleep right now. Is this something I should encourage? How should I set the tank up to suit her for that if I should change anything? Is there any signs that they will or won't hibernate? At the moment, she's very shy and seems to only come out of her hide at night to go into a slightly less enclosed hide to eat crickets and then goes back to her cave hide. I can't tell if this is because she's nervous in the captive environment or if this indicates she just wants to sleep... Any pointers?

And on a completely random note ... Does anyone know of any captive breeders of Frog Eyes in New England or the surrounds?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Jen

[Brian]

It may be a capture injury. Even when mating my Frog eyes seem to be real gentle. Well a lot more then my other stuff.