[Phantasticus]

Those are beautiful setups! Well done. ^.^

Your little Phantasticus looks so cute.

[sikorae]

Great set ups

[rhacoboy]

Awesome set ups. I wish I could get my ficus to stay as lively as yours, but in my Phant cages the ficus always end up dying!

And those branches in the Pietschmanni cages are perfect, I would love to get some of those over here, but like Bruce said, they're pretty rare.

Good luck!
-Armen

[Robin Skrumsager]

Benny - thanks Benny, they are definetly nice geckos to keep, tough I wouldn't mind in also getting my hands of some of the other uroplatus species aswell

Luperosaurus - Thanks, I my other two Uroplatus phantasticus vivs, I use ficus benjamina, pothos and some twigs from fruit trees (apple seems to be a good choice), the geckos use it during the day to do their vampire sleeping method, and are activly useing them to hunt crikets during the nigth. I ahve had some problems with mold on these, but im trying springtails now, to see if that would workout.

The big branches you see in the U. Phantasticus viv are the first time Im, useing them with Uroplatus, the one thats angle up to the rigth corner, is oak, and is a "normal" branch. The other one thats placed against the left backwall, is hollow like and upsidedown U, so that the geckos may hide in there and not get exposed to the ligthning if they find it wanted. (Cant really tell from the pictures), but im experimenting with it, if they would chose that hidningplace and in what conditions (egglaying, during summer or winter ect.).. but my experiance is when the ficus and pothos grows in, they will have alot of thin branches to use. Hope that answered your Q?

Mallick - Sure, I would like to meet and exchange some Uroplatus words hope you can give me some pointers, after all you are getting fertile eggs and nice offspring. Currently I dont know wich next Hammfair I will be joining

Silas - hehe, After what Ive seen Bruce got some pretty nice vivs and animals so we have to step your game up to meet the "demands", but you got a nice viv. Would love to see more photos from you

Liz - thanks, It seems like all my males are haning out in the open, whereas the females cover themself more up, when he fires up he gets a greenish look its super nice. But Im not sure if he gets the job done with the female he's in with. I'll give him some time, and if nothing happens I will be swichting the male with one of the others.

Armen - I have taken alot of things from your posts, and tried to adjust in this setup, to give the best requaments to the inhabits. actually the Ficus, is rather easy to keep, Ill have two nozzles in each cage that sprays 35 seconds each night. and ocassionaly I water them during the summer, when the substrate gets to dry. I belive it as alot to do with my ligthning. I have been trimming these plants down quite a bit. as Mentioned above im trying springtails and tropical woodlice it seems to work out fine. (Got them from a frog enthutiast).
You can join Bruce, and take a trip over to the Hammfair, then there is plenty if it..

[geckomeister]

Very nice Robin! Best of luck, I'm sure your geckos will love the setups. I've started using T5 6500K lights on some cages, they really do brighten things up.

Best wishes,
Neil

[NigelMoses]

Originally Posted by geckomeister

Very nice Robin! Best of luck, I'm sure your geckos will love the setups. I've started using T5 6500K lights on some cages, they really do brighten things up.

Best wishes,
Neil

I was actually just going to comment on that. I use those bulbs for my dart frog setups and the plants grow out great! In the past few months I have changed all of my Gecko Bulbs over to 6500k as well with great results. Armen, odds are you do not have correct lighting for the ficus. Zoo Med 5.0 bulbs are horrible for plant growth as it isn't the correct light output for growing plants.

Not to mention T5 are highly energy efficient.

[Robin Skrumsager]

Neil - Thanks And thanks for helping me out. Yeah the T5 are very nice, and also dont produce alot of heat., and they are easily installed and work great.

Bruce - Its incredible how much the rigth ligthning helps with keeping the plants alive as you mentioned, Im trimming the Ficus, and pothos back pretty hard, and then there goes 2-3 months, and I need to trim them again, so the leafs dont cover out all the ligth at the top of the viv.