Recent content by Mettle

I was tending to the babies today and to my dismay discovered this one with a serious eye issue. I'm not sure what it is. Any ideas? Advice? Would a vet visit yield anything? This is what it looked like after hatching: And this is what I found today: My thoughts are that it could be...

After 109 days (same time it took for my last clutch to hatch - weird) I finally got a baby I had been waiting on eagerly. (Clutchmate is still yet to hatch.) I was excited mainly because of the father. (Notice the smiley face in the pattern on the head? :p ) These are the parents: Sire...

I am testing out the use of a crude diy dripper for my Uroplatus sikorae and was wondering if anyone else had done this to help with humidity? I'm just using a Solo delicup with an extremely small pinhole in the bottom. It delivers one small droplet of water about every 1.5 seconds. The water...

106 days in the egg and hatched at 2 grams on the dot. Very happy with this little one and hope it's the start of an awesome season for me.

I have 1.2 U. sikorae... but now I want to find out if they're U. s. sikorae or U. s. sameiti in preparation for future breeding. I know the the inside of the mouth is the true indicator. But I have no idea what the best way of seeing this is. Any trips? I tried spraying them and watching...

I am in the process of designing a fully planted vivarium with bio-active substrate for 1.2 Uroplatus sikorae. But I had a few questions first... I am planning on using an 18x18x24 exoterra. Is this large enough for the three geckos? From caresheets online I have read that 1.1 can be housed in...

I recently transferred my U. sikorae from 12x12x12 exoterras into 12x12x18 exoterras. I did not change the elements of the set-up. I use cocofibre for the substrate. I provide corkbark for climbing/hiding and a few fake plants for cover. I have 1.1 U. sikorae and they are housed in separate...

So last night I received a pair (1.1) of young Uroplatus sikorae. They made the trip from Montreal to Ottawa and I couldn't be happier to have them. These are my first leaftails but judging by how enamoured I am with them something is telling me they may not be my last, haha. I was quick to get...

I'm just wondering how big one would expect a sara to be when it is around 12 or 13 months old? General size and weight would be great from anyone experienced in keeping/breeding these awesome geckos. Also, if there were geckos that seemed to be a bit small for their age (lagging behind by...

I'm very excited about this pair. They won't be together til a little later in the season as I don't get the female til February and I want to make sure both are sufficiently large enough and the proper age. But I have some hiiigh hopes. The first two pics are the female (not my pictures). The...

So I stumbled upon the site randomly, thought I'd register. I never thought I'd be a gecko keeper/lover, despite my over all love for reptiles in general. But I've been bitten by the crested gecko bug! I currently have 1.1.3 cresties. The sexed pair are a proven breeding pair that I recently...