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Good evening community, I finally got a PhD position in an AWESOME position in Italy (Firenze), which will start in November. Therefor I have a few questions for you guys: 1. Can you provide any experiences when moving to a new country? As I have been informed I do not have any animals that I...

Greetings forum community, I am currently finding a lot of free time for planing future research. Since I am more focused on entomology, I was thinking about doing something more... "herpetologic". My idea was a co1-gene pased project on geckos, but which species? It would have to be some...

I am more frequently observing strange behaviour in one of my L. lugubris populations, which I would like to have another opinion about: The tank with L. lugubris is standing about 10 cm away from another one with H. frenatus. The sides of both tanks arent covered with anything so it is possible...

Greetings community, I already used the search-function and Dr. google, but I could not find any clear and certain answer so I am asking you: Since I am thinking about moving to England (London) I was wondering how the laws about keeping geckos are. Are there any special circumstances I have to...

Well I seperated them on the 1st of January 2013 after New Years Eve... And yes I definetly keep males and females seperated. Or can it happen that a male hasnt got preanal pores nor the bulbs. But 22 months do seel a long time for being still fertile or not?

I was just about to get into bed, when my wife screamed. I came running and she was just pointing on a small "thing" on the wall... Looking closer ready to smash any bigger insect that might be there I just found a crested baby. Now I wonder: My females havent seen any male for 2 years now and I...

Good morning community, Since I have been and still am busy with my diploma thesis I haven't had much time to search through the forum for interesting news and articles. Right now I am searching for a position to start my PhD work. Since I know that some of us here are actually working at...

Good morning to everybody here in this forum. I know this might sound a little off-topic, but since I am starting my Diploma-thesis on the european insectfamily "Thaumaleidae" I am collecting specimens from all over europe. I know this Diptera live near freshwater springs covered with shadows...

Good morning everyone, I know this is a Geckoforum thats why I am in the off-topic section^^ My request is maybe a little strange but right now I am starting the preparation for my diploma thesis in the biology/limnology/entomology mix area.:coverlaugh: Well I am going to work on Thaumaleidae...

Good morning fellow Gecko enthusiasts. I was wondering if there is a comprehensive classification guide concerning Gekkota or several guides concerning with Carphodactylidae, Eublepharidae, Gekkonidae or Spherodactylidae? I am just wondering since I am working a lot with Diptera systematics and...

Well, Happy New Year to all of you. Since my wife thought she would do me a treat for Christmas, she gifted me 5 little Cresties. They came in a huge plastic box with holes, plants, sticks a water bowel and so on. They hunted, ate and were happy^^ One of them was a little smaller but also...

Hello everybody, I haven't been online for a while, since work and University are keeping me pretty busy, so I thought I would share some pics with you. Hope you enjoy my tanks^^ The first pics are an empty tank about 1.8m high and 0.8 x0.8 base. The other one is at the moment home of "some"...

Hey everybody, Well, like some people remember I am keeping a pair of C. Bibronii in a 70 x 70 x 60 vivarium with selfbuild backside and so on. The humidity is about 55% and the temp lays between 22 at night and 30 to 35 at day. here my problem: While cleaning the leftovers of last nights meal...

Good Evening to all of you, I came up with some, well, lets call it, failure of housing so I figured I would ask you guys for some hints what I should do. So here is a short story about how I ended up with my problem: I started to build a new Vivarium (L 1,20m x B 80cm x H 1m) for my 1.1...

After spraying my vivarium with Lepidodactylus lugubris in it for 2 months and not changing anything at the setup I am pretty astonished how my vanilly planifolia, ivy and sphagnum have been growing. ...Just wanted to share some pictures...

Hey guys, I haven't written any longer texts in english for quite a while, but I chose this Forum over german forums just because I found more helpful and interesting threads here... and I hope that you might give me some useful advises. Coming to my Problem: Well, my 2 year old L. Lugubris...

Hey folks, I'm new in this forum and wwanted to introduce myself, just like all the others I guess. :-) I'm living together with 1 aduld and a fresh newborn really interesting Lepidodactylus Lugubris and an 7 year old corn snake.