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This should really be a no-brainer for me, but I am second guessing myself. This individual hatched on 7/18/2010 from one of my adult pairs, so is over eight months old. I recently posted an ad for a 1.1 young standingi pair and it included this individual. I have long assumed it is a female...

I have been watching this female carefully and she looks like she will lay any day now. It may be hard to tell from the pictures, but she has ballooned! I have kept these borbonica (agalegae) mater in a trio. I have not kept any of my Phelsuma in a trio before, so I have been watching them...

Yesterday afternoon I discovered that one of my female Phelsuma klemmeri had laid a clutch. Although I initially pulled them out of the bamboo cleft where they had been laid, I decided to place them back where I found them and incubate in situ. I put the screen up to prevent...

After fruitlessly trying to take some pictures of my recently arrived Phelsuma cepediana (thank you, Preston), I decided to take some pictures of some other Phelsuma. The 0.1 Phelsuma guimbeaui and 0.0.2 Phelsuma abbotti chekei came from JMeyer (I think originally produced by John Woodward)...

I just acquired 1.1 Phelsuma robertmertensi , 0.1 Phelsuma klemmeri, and 1.2 Phelsuma borbonica (agalegae) mater this afternoon from Kurt Lance (The Rep Room... your source for fine reptiles.). I'm thrilled. I have been searching through the archives on this site and others to better...

Hatching from a single-egg clutch on Tuesday. I have not seen a Phelsuma shed within seconds of hatching before. Compared to hatchlings from typical two egg clutches, this individual is much more robust. I also moved my Phelsuma incubator into another room and is now regulated by a timer...

People always think that I am joking when I tell them that I am raising up a little army.

Some of the yolk sac was still attached. It finally detached this evening, but I'll be closely monitoring the progress of this little gecko. There was some blood in the incubation container. #1 #2-As soon as I saw that the second gecko had hatched, I opened the incubation container. It...

I have traditionally used Perlite as my incubation medium for a variety of lizard species, but decided to use Vermiculite for this "batch." I also used less water in the medium and both Phelsuma klemmeri hatched this time. I probably should have moved some of the eggs to a different...

I discovered two Phelsuma klemmeri hatchlings in the incubator this evening. Unfortunately, only one of the hatchlings was still alive. The other one didn't make it out of the egg. Perhaps it was not healthy or completely developed. It did not appear as vigorous or as developed as the other...

After my female Phelsuma standingi laid her eggs this morning, the male came over to investigate. She appears to have gotten defensive, turned around to defend the clutch, and, eventually, he moved elsewhere. She did not lay in any bamboo or in any of the plants in the enclosure, but chose to...

A rather poor picture (shot through the glass) of a gravid Phelsuma klemmeri. Gravid Phelsuma standingi In both pictures, the male is on the left and the female is on the right I believe this female Phelsuma kochi is gravid. She produced thirteen or fourteen clutches between March and...

The Pothos is beginning to take over. The female laid in the horizontal bamboo section. I will probably be adding some more horizontal bamboo sections. I caught some glimpses of her over the past week and was fairly certain she was gravid. I'm surprised at how big the eggs are compared to the...

This juvenile was roduced by Preston Garbett and hatched on 9/24/09. I am guessing it is a female. What do you think?

My female P. laticauda died last week (likely from being eggbound-my fault), but her first clutch hatched yesterday. I am surprised at how small the hatchlings are. Though they are likely too big, they appear to be just the right size to wriggle through the holes in the deli cup. I have...

Following my previous post, this one is likely more for my consolation. Hatchling #1: Hatchling #2: I normally wait until after their first shed before pulling them out of the incubator. I simply didn't see that this little one was almost done.

When I got home this afternoon, I found my female P. laticauda laticauda dangling from the bamboo in the enclosure. I immediately knew she was dead (perhaps killed by the male). When I was misting and feeding the pair this morning, I noticed that she had shed her skin on the side of the...

I purchased 1.1.1 Phelsuma klemmeri from Preston last week and they arrived on Thursday. I'm very pleased with these geckos and the transaction. They were packed very well. Here is a picture of the gecko "compound" the pair have been placed in (sector #3). Moving from left to right...

First P. laticauda laticauda clutch, P. kochi clutches, and last week's hatchlings Last month, I thought only one more clutch of Phelsuma would hatch in 2009. I soon discovered that my female P. kochi and female P. laticauda laticauda were gravid. In addition to a clutch of P. kochi hatching...

I recently divided a 55 gallon aquarium into four distinct enclosures by securing three panes of glass with silicone. I constructed a fixed lid and a hinged lid for each compartment utilizing more glass, window screen, screen frames. Only two of the enclosures are complete (pictures to follow)...