[python1324]

Hey everyone, I was wondering about what an appropriate weight for breeding Eurydactylodes vieillardi would be. Both the male and female. I have a two year old pair coming this week.

Thanks.

[mat.si]

Hi!
If they are healthy, they should be more than big enough for breeding at two years of age. Females usually already start laying unfertile eggs at about one year, when they get close to 6 g. I usually put them together at 1.5 years. Adult males are around 3.5 g and females are a bit over 7 grams outside of breeding season.

Matjaz

[python1324]

Thanks!

[sikorae]

I have a 2 year old pair, female just laid last night. In January the male was 5g and female 9.5g. Mine are dustbins though when it comes to food

[mat.si]

Hi Julie!
That's quite strange. I have animals from three different breeders and I don't remember my females ever being over 7.5 g and males never reached 4 g. And they always ate great and grew fast.
Your pair looks like the size of my agricolae and all my agricolae are definitely bigger than my vieillardi.
I haven't checked their weight for a while though, so I guess I'll check again.

Matjaz

[python1324]

The eggs must be like little jellybeans in size right? Are they hard or soft shelled?

[mat.si]

Females seem to gain some weight with age. My 2 to 3.5 years old females are +/-8g now, at the beginning of the breeding season. All males are still +/-3.5g though. 5 and 9.5 still looks amazingly big.

Eggs are pretty small, I guess they look like tic tacs. They are of course soft shelled, like Rhacodactylus eggs.

[python1324]

I'm excited to see these tiny eggs for my self in a few months. I guess hard shelled is a bad way to put it, not hard like a Uroplatus egg but harder like a leachianus egg.