[Henri]

Hi all,

I’m new to the forum as I have just bought 2.2 H. giganteus and would appreciate some advise to take best care of them.

My terrarium is approx 100 x 60 x 90 cm, but for now they are in a smaller 100 x 60 x 30 cm as they were full of mites (their eyes were surrounded with orange that you see from 2 meters apart).
I have removed with a scalpel these without harming the animals (yes that’s long and difficult…), the next day I bathed them with betadine, I hope it will be good.
For now they say at the cool end (22 C) of the terrarium and look like doing well.

I plan to set the big terrarium with loads of lighting (4 compact fluorescent lamps including two UVB + 1 incandescent for heating) the lights being over a screen. The terrarium would have a gradient of 35 C to 22 C approx.

I know there are dry and rainy seasons in their natural habitat, is it necessary to breed them ?

I have strictly no info on breeding, so how often they lay eggs, how to incubate etc would be of huge help.

Thanks

Henri