Pachydactylus caraculicus, haackei, fasciatus ,visseri from Hamm

**thorrshamri** · #1 03-28-2011, 08:11 PM

1 :1 Pachydactylus haackei

1:1 Pachydactylus fasciatus

1 :1 Pachydactylus visseri

1 :1 Pachydactylus caraculicus

perioman · #2 03-29-2011, 06:38 AM

you shouldn't keep them together !
nice animals

**Elizabeth Freer** · #3 03-30-2011, 04:23 AM

Looking good, Herve!

PassPort · #4 03-31-2011, 02:17 AM

Love the fasciatus! Diggin' the visseri too

**thorrshamri** · #5 03-31-2011, 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by perioman

you shouldn't keep them together !
nice animals

What do you mean? I never mix species...

perioman · #6 03-31-2011, 12:13 PM

see you keep your fasciatus together, your hackei together, etc

keeping pachy' together is the best way to have problem when their are not adult or not during the breeding season... Even during this period, it can be problematic..

your animals are still young considering fasciatus, caraculicus, visseri : keeping young pair together is risked... (territoriality, stress, etc)

**thorrshamri** · #7 04-03-2011, 12:25 PM

Interesting, Perioman...from whom did you get that info?

perioman · #8 04-03-2011, 12:31 PM

is it important who gave this info ?

it's from my own experience and from another person who produced some pachydactylus, who you know..

perioman · #9 04-03-2011, 12:33 PM

furthermore, keeping young females with males will be problematic.. Pachydactylus species are not really ready to breed before over 2years.. I your females get gravid before this age, you will have many problems about their health (calcium crash, skiny animals... deads)

Geitje · #10 04-03-2011, 05:00 PM

Perioman -

Your point of view about keeping Pachy's together is probably one of the most bizarre posts I've seen on a forum in some time. OK, I do not really watch forums so closely

Pachydactylus are not only notorious for living together in nature and captivity - BUT THEY MUST DO SO IN NATURE IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. ALL ARBOREAL SPECIES LIVE IN ROCK CRACKS IN VERY COMMUNAL NUMBERS AND SETTINGS. In fact, several species can be found in nature with 1.2 adults, 3-4 juveniles + unhatched eggs all in the same crevice that might not be much larger than an average birthday card. I have seen groups of up to 15 adult Pachydactylus, sometimes from 2+ species inside of one crevice.

At the moment, I have roughly 400 specimens of Pachydactylus from nearly 40 species. All of my juveniles are raised in the plastic cups depicted in the attached photo. Inside of each 32 ounce plastic up is between 2 and 6 juvenile Pachydactylus, and I keep them in this manner until they begin to breed.

I have raised hundreds and hundreds of pachydactylus in this manner.
I have raised Pachydactylus scherzi, parascutatus, caraculicus, bicolor and others in these cups from birth to egg-producing adults in as little as 19 weeks and 2 days (average 5.5 months egg-egg for most Pachydactylus!!!).
I have 32 oz cups with 1.2.6 Pachydactylus scherzi living inside, and no animal in that cup is older than 8 months old, and all babies were produced from the 2 females in that cup. All are living harmoniously inside of one cup.

Pachydactylus are an astonishing example of a gecko capable of living in extremely confined conditions and doing so with enormous success.
I know of no other genus of gecko capable of being kept like this.
I also know of no other types of geckos that can go from "egg-to-egg" in less than 4.5 months. This has happened for me with numerous Pachydactylus species.