Uroplatus phantasticus Pics

[StickyToes]

We had another phantasticus hatch today so I thought I would take the time to post pics of the whole family for everyone's enjoyment.
This is our male Damian

Our female Eve

Our first 2 hatchlings of the year right out of the eggs

After their first shed

Our newest hatchling

The 3 of them together

And a few more shots of the fist 2 hatchlings

We still have 5 more good eggs incubating. Hopefully in the coming months we will be able to expand our numbers from a pair to a small colony as I think for right now the genus is what we really want to focus our breeding efforts on.

 

[Justin]

Beautiful photo's and contratualtions on breeding them!

 

[weswright]

Awsome! Thanks for sharing!

 

[oscar]

i'm really starting to like the uroplats and the satatics are some of the coolest ones i think. i love the names of the parents! :twisted: :lol:
thanks for the pics.

Scott

 

[JeffG]

You and me both Scott. Is their pattern and color completely variable, or does is have to do with the parents coloring?

 

[Dragondude]

Realy stunning gecko's.

 

[miguel camacho!]

amazing offspring and pictures. love to see stuff like this. to answer your question, jeff, often times you will see that the offspring take on the colors of one or both of the parents, although sometimes you can get offspring that really dont resemble either. you also get varying degrees of notching in the tail and elaboration of the spiked scales. basically each egg is a gem and you never know what you'll get next. let me see if i can get some of my pics up from my recent and past hatchlings....its about time i took more pics.

these are my most recent 2 hatchling, clutchmates, from april 13. hatched out on day 83, a week before i really start expecting them. anyhow, both are energetic, and although they were unable to complete their first sheds themselves, they're doing great. both look a lot like mom right now.

 

[miguel camacho!]

and here goes more recent pics. didnt like that previous pic much since as you can tell they still hadnt begun their first shed.

those second 2 pics are of my 2 month old hatchling. unfortunately that was the only egg laid in that clutch, i really wish there had been another, but mom died a few days after laying. at least her legacy lives on!

 

[MiCh@3L]

Congratulations to this beauties. I`ll hope mine start breeding this year, too.

Michael

 

[JeffG]

Thanks for answering my question and posting the awesome pics Mike!

 

[Nathan Hall]

Thanks for all of the pics, guys! Keep up the great work! I would love to see some set-ups as well.

 

[StickyToes]

I'm glad everyone likes the pics! 8)
Those are some awesome looking hatchlings Mike! :shock: Too bad you don't live anywhere near us or we could do a little trading to diversify bloodlines.
If we can get our hands on some WC we'd love to expand our colony and the CB bloodlines here in Canada. The parents are CBs from Neil Meister, and I'm not sure if they are F2 or F3.
Nathan-You the Bossman! :lol:

And here's a couple pics of them gettin down to bidness. It's like clockwork...she lays eggs...and then that night they take care of a little bidness! :lol:

 

[Nathan Hall]

Nathan-You the Bossman!

LOL! Actually, I'm second in command. My wife is the bossman...er...bossperson.

 

[Natas]

selling any? I can't find them for the life of me around here

 

[miguel camacho!]

i for one wont be selling off ANY of my uroplatus hatchlings, at least for another couple of years. as we all know CB are WAY too hard to come by here in the US, and way too valuable to sell off. not only that, but i personally think that these guys are way too small for the first many months to even consider shipping. also, i have had so much luck with these guys in the relatively short amount of time i have dealt with them, and the fact there is pretty much no availability of CB in the US (except for those that trickle out of collections mainly stemming from neil meister), im thinking of starting a larger-scale cooperative breeding project/business in the future. granted im only now graduating from college and moving off into the real world...but im in love with the genus and i wouldnt mind working with them for the rest of my life!

 

[spidergecko]

With all this talk about people keeping their uroplatus, I think I might start looking into breeding my U. ebenaui. I have 3.3 and I once got a fertile egg but I have never been interested in breeding them and didn't even care much when I got the egg. Maybe it's time I started caring. :?

 

[moricollins]

Mike, you best start breeding them if you have them, I'm sure there are more than enough canadian gecko enthusiasts for there to be a lineup to get ahold of any offspring you produce


Mori

 

[Terra5Designs]

can you mike M tell me if you've noted any patterns to the color and spiny scales of either of the hatchlings to the parent out a few generations at all? what were your incubation temps, did they vary at all and if so, do you feel this might have an effect on the hatchling resemblance to either parent or previous siblings?

 

[crestedgex1]

Great uroplatus pics Great looking hatchlings.
Nathan My wife is also the boss lady lol

Nathan-You the Bossman!

 

[miguel camacho!]

well, deven, if that question was aimed to me, im not sure exactly what you're asking, but i guess i have an idea. i have dealt with breeding any 2nd generation offspring of mine yet because it was only this season that i got a couple females to hatch out. its gonna be probably a year or more till i go about doing that. from what ive noticed so far, females more often tend to be smoother with regard to the spiked scales and the patterns of males tend to be more detailed or mixed. the offspring more often than not end up resembling the mother, although once in a while one spits out looking just like the father. then once in a blue moon, you get one that doesnt look like either. but most of my offspring have been the dark purplish color. i let the temps on my eggs fluctuate, and they sit out in a lil plastic tub at room temp, which fluctuates on average from near the low 70's to about a max temp of 76. temps were so warm because i had so many incubating through the warm months this season. in the winter my temps would be a bit cooler. i have no idea whether temperature plays any role in similarity of appearance with the parents, but i would guess against it. the adults and eggs are kept in a relatively narrow range of temps, so i doubt that little bit could have that much of an influence on outward appearance.