Breeding Blaesodactylus boivini

Aias · #1 01-11-2012, 03:06 AM

Hello everybody,

I have noticed that some members had a success in breeding this wonderful spiecies!

I myself have a pair. I have them for nearly a year now. The male is 31cm and the female about 35cm. They were sold to me as cb's. They are quite calm and always in the open! They even feed crickets from tongs and CGD from my hand. They do not tolerate handling though....

So i have read that the very first step is to have a compatible pair, because they might fight to the death. I can tell that they are completely compatible and they never have a fight. They even share the same cork.

I have reduced the lights down to 10 hours a day and also dropped the temperatures. I only hope that when the temps rise again they will be triggered for breeding!

Any advice from anyone who had a success would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you all!

Aias · #2 01-12-2012, 02:25 PM

As i can see no traffic in this post, i will apdate with some photos to raise the interest! Hehe....

The Male:

TheFemale:

Harvey · #3 01-18-2012, 12:00 AM

Nice geckos your got there! I have always wanted a pair of these guys ever since I held one little cutie at a show. Sorry, I have no experience with them so I can't serve much help in that area but I do believe there is someone on the forum that has bred them. Maybe searching " Bleasodactylus " in the search bar would help. I have done it a couple times and it seem Sakalava's show up more but there are a couple boivini in there.

Sorry I couldn't be more help. Hope everything turns out all right

Aias · #4 01-19-2012, 10:44 AM

Thank you for your nice words!

Well i have already search for feedback on older posts, plus used the search from the forum for "boivini". I have read all the posts about boivinis and there are 2-3 persons who have bred them before. But there is no information....

So i will procceed as i can and hopefully we will see some nice babies! Good luck to me :P

pakinjak · #5 04-03-2012, 08:21 AM

Please update on how it's going. I just picked up a group of these guys, and will be interested to hear about your experience.

Aias · #6 04-07-2012, 05:51 PM

Hello!

Well i have not a real update on the breeding matter.

I only have found some infertile eggs by the time i write. And that was about a month ago.

They dig them on the ground and quite deep i can say. I have found them at 15cm depth.

In the past two weeks i see signs of kinky behavior from the male! I hope we will find out soon!

I have already cooled them during winter and they have monstrous apetite now that the weather is warmer!