african clawed gecko(holodactylus africanus)
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Holodactylus africnus is a rarely acclimated gecko.
I worked with a pair last year. The major difficulty is to feed them. They are termites eaters but in a captive environnment, you could feed them of crickets with brocken legs, or that have been frozen 10 min in the fridge before. I hand feed them regularly, and they were able to eat large roaches !
Most people use sand, where geckos could burrow. But I first use paper towel with an hidden humid box ( with sand) and it works good. I use a lot of hidden areas. This gecko seems to be very sensitive to deshydratation.
H.africanus as been bred in US, according to R.Tremper and P.de Vosjoli .
There is very few litterature and infos available on this specie, Try to find field guide
I worked with a pair last year. The major difficulty is to feed them. They are termites eaters but in a captive environnment, you could feed them of crickets with brocken legs, or that have been frozen 10 min in the fridge before. I hand feed them regularly, and they were able to eat large roaches !
Most people use sand, where geckos could burrow. But I first use paper towel with an hidden humid box ( with sand) and it works good. I use a lot of hidden areas. This gecko seems to be very sensitive to deshydratation.
H.africanus as been bred in US, according to R.Tremper and P.de Vosjoli .
There is very few litterature and infos available on this specie, Try to find field guide
Hi
I have only kept this species for a couple weeks so my experiance is limited.
I am keeping them on a sand/cocofibre substrate, about 3'' deep. This is keep just damp enough so that tunnels hold in it well. I have a pipe in one corner gojng to the bottom of the substrate so that i can easily dampen the bottom layers and i also spray upto three times a day. I have actually found them to be good feeders, the female fed only a couple of days after i got her, taking both crickets and waxworms. The male took longer but is now feeding reasonably well also.
I did consider using a basic set-up as armali has described but i just felt happier allowing them to burrow as i think this will help cut down on stress.
Best of luck with them
EDIT: The viv is open topped, thought id beter mention that as regular spraying may otherwise seem wrong.
Also i have noticed that these geckos seem o come up and feed well for a night and then stay below ground for a few days.
I have only kept this species for a couple weeks so my experiance is limited.
I am keeping them on a sand/cocofibre substrate, about 3'' deep. This is keep just damp enough so that tunnels hold in it well. I have a pipe in one corner gojng to the bottom of the substrate so that i can easily dampen the bottom layers and i also spray upto three times a day. I have actually found them to be good feeders, the female fed only a couple of days after i got her, taking both crickets and waxworms. The male took longer but is now feeding reasonably well also.
I did consider using a basic set-up as armali has described but i just felt happier allowing them to burrow as i think this will help cut down on stress.
Best of luck with them
EDIT: The viv is open topped, thought id beter mention that as regular spraying may otherwise seem wrong.
Also i have noticed that these geckos seem o come up and feed well for a night and then stay below ground for a few days.
Nathan Hall
Founding Father
Definitely!
Larry Boyle has done well with them. You might want to shoot him an email:
larry@timtytle.com
