[postskunk]

I was working late on a cage, went up to my room to grab a book off the shelf and saw a wiggle out of the corner of my eye!!!







The color is drown out cause of the light on my turtle tank and he's about to shed but he's tealish and yellow with some orange freckles. like a week ago I realized that the sharpie on the container rubbed away which was dumb on my part and since my the satanic egg went 150 days then rotted and the first henkeli egg I had went like 110 days before it cracked and I lost the under developed little guy I figured I'd get around to sorting threw my old threads to figure out when it was laid sooner or later. the egg also was laid with three big dents in it and a 1/8" pock mark in it and I didn't have much faith it would hatch. I'm pretty good about checking to see if the perlite is moist enough but I wouldn't have done it tonight cause I was really exhausted so I lucked out big time. I'm pretty pumped right now and I could go on forever so I'll cut myself off here.

have a great night everyone
-Matt

[Herperjake]

Congrats! He/she looks like a screamer! A Henkels, right? Very cool! Jake

[postskunk]

Thanks he/she is bouncing off the walls and has two nice big calcium sacks (I think that's what they are) so the little guys off to a good start

[jadrig]

its a female

[Robin Skrumsager]

Matt, grats on the young one. It must have been, an experiance, when you didn't know when it will hacth. It looks great

Originally Posted by jadrig

its a female

Just guess or, do you know something I dont know? (then please tell)

[jadrig]

Well, for some reason only the one pic loaded up before I made that comment...But it does seem to have a lightly pigmented 'collar' which females usually display when they hatch out. Now that I look at the other pics...it might just be from the flash. A full body dorsal view shot would be more telling.

[Robin Skrumsager]

okay, that sounds interresting. I would like to know more about this subject. Would be nice, if one could sex the animals when they hacth.

Matt, could you perhaps take a "full body dorsal view shot ", could be interresting to take a closer look.

But, its definatly a nice gecko

[postskunk]

I didn't use a flash I had the camera on a low light setting. here's a shoty full body one later after work I'll get one with some natural light


there definitely seems to be a collar like the mother kind of has and there's a black moon shape on the head and some black dots on the tale which are I think looks cool.

heres the mother she was gravid when I got her. I put a male in with her a few days after she laid her last clutch last month, so it would be nice if it was a she cause then I can breed her to the male when she grows up.



not sure if it shed yet, and should I try to feed it pin head crickets or small or will that intimidate it in which case I'll go with fruit flies? any help with how I should go about the next week or two would be very appreciated.

thanks all
-Matt

[Robin Skrumsager]

Use small roaches or crikets, dffinalty something that will catch the geckos interreset and trick the feeding response. I would go without any, supplement for the first month, just be sure that there isn't going to be any overdose of anything. (people hwo have breed them might have a better answer on this subjekt).

Keep in a faunaboks, with papir substrate and a few small twigs/branshes big enough so that he/she can do the natural henkeli sit and wait.
Keep it humid, and clean the box every week. (add some false plants for cover).
But make sure that there is enough ground area so that the cricket can get around so the geckos notice it.

I would feed it with 3 to 6 insects 4-5 times a week.

There might be some of the hardcore henkeli keepers and breeders that have better information on how you should procede.

hope it makes it.

Cheers

[UroplatusSam]

nice work dude!