[Precision Geckos]

I was just wondering what people think is the best Calcium and Vitamin supplementation to use with Uroplatus. My female Henkeli dont seem to be having good looking calcium sacs latley...

[rhacoboy]

Originally Posted by Precision Geckos

I was just wondering what people think is the best Calcium and Vitamin supplementation to use with Uroplatus. My female Henkeli dont seem to be having good looking calcium sacs latley...

I'll have to get back to you with the exact type of calcium that I'm using, but it seems to be working well. I'm getting fertile eggs from my female Uro's, as well as my female Rhacodactylus and all of my female Uroplatus have absolutely huge calcium sacks. I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that the breeding season just started, but these females have FULL calcium sacks.

Female Uroplatus need lots of calcium for breeding because many of the species (Henkeli, Sikorae, Phantasticus, etc) will produce several clutches of eggs. I have female Sikorae that are laying fertile eggs every 21-23 days, so they need a lot of extra supliments. I also dust the food with a multi-vitamin. Its like 2-3x the price of the calcium, but it seems to be doing good for them.

I'm also curious to see if anyone has found another good feeder that contains lots of calcium other than snails, since they seem to be very tricky to track down (at least for me).
Good luck,
-Armen

[miguel camacho!]

[Precision Geckos]

I am using the Rep-cal and feeding pinkys once a week and still nothing, Last season they were great everything was fine, but idk whats going on now...

[miguel camacho!]

well I don't know, I've never particularly had adults with ridiculously large calcium sacs. I wonder how "normal" it is for them to bulge in a way that makes them visually apparent.

[David]

snails and miner-all

only one snails meal will often raise big calcium sacs

[D.B.Johnson]

I've used miner-all and now I'm using cal-stron along with occasionally giving them nekton rep. In my geckos, these pump up the calcium sacs noticibly more then when I was using the rep-cal calcium. I think I used to have the normal rep cal and not the ultrafine if that makes a difference. I never really have loved the rep cal products, especially the herptivite. I also can't really say what size calcium sacs are 'normal', but if you want to pump them up, I would recommend the any of the above.

[T-ReXx]

I use Repashy. I also feed snails. And I give Rescue-cal to laying females on a regular basis. And I use a liquid calcium in the water. And provide dishes of calcium in the cage. Uroplatus require ridiculously high calcium levels in their diet. Using UVB I think is also very important. U. henkeli females in particular are very sensitive to calcium deficiency IMO, and pairs need to be seperated after a couple clutches. I give laying females snails as well as hand feeding dubia that have been injected with liquid calcium. Although I do not use Miner-all, I do know keepers who do and have good success with it. I also use a multivitamin every 2 weeks.

[Harley_Davidson]

Originally Posted by rhacoboy

I'll have to get back to you with the exact type of calcium that I'm using, but it seems to be working well. I'm getting fertile eggs from my female Uro's, as well as my female Rhacodactylus and all of my female Uroplatus have absolutely huge calcium sacks. I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that the breeding season just started, but these females have FULL calcium sacks.

Female Uroplatus need lots of calcium for breeding because many of the species (Henkeli, Sikorae, Phantasticus, etc) will produce several clutches of eggs. I have female Sikorae that are laying fertile eggs every 21-23 days, so they need a lot of extra supliments. I also dust the food with a multi-vitamin. Its like 2-3x the price of the calcium, but it seems to be doing good for them.

I'm also curious to see if anyone has found another good feeder that contains lots of calcium other than snails, since they seem to be very tricky to track down (at least for me).
Good luck,
-Armen

Armen do you leave a dish with calcium in it for them to lick up ? Also do males need it?

[T-ReXx]

Originally Posted by rhacoboy

I'm also curious to see if anyone has found another good feeder that contains lots of calcium other than snails, since they seem to be very tricky to track down (at least for me).

The only other feeder I've found that is regularly available with high calcium levels in Pheonix worms, and I have only had one Uroplatus that will eat them. I ended up field collecting land snails and breeding through several generations to get "safe" individuals to feed off. I use Cepea nemoralis, which lay eggs, then remove the eggs for incubation. I was using aquatic Apple snails for a while as well, and they would take them fairly readily. Once my nemoralis colony was established I stopped breeding the apples.