Importing C. elegans

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Coleonyx

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How would I go about importing C. elegans from Europe/Central America?
Has anyone here done something similar? I really want to acquire a group of these, but the USA seems to have an extreme shortage. Nathan, didn't you get your group from Europe? I also would like the white and the striped forms, but that is asking for alot. :D

Thanks for any info

Alex
 
mat.si

mat.si

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Hi!

Every year I breed a lot of stripped and banded C. elegans.
I have produced a lot of outstanding patterns and colors from 8 years of selective breeding of C. elegans. At the moment I have a breeding group of 4.12 elegans.
My animals definitely look better than any photos I've seen in the books or the internet.
I just have to figure out my new (first) digital camera and a way to post photos on the forum and I'll put some here.

If you manage to come to the Hamm expo in March, you can still get some very nice animals from 2005. I have a lot of extra females as well.
(Nathan got my animals in September.)

But you'll have to figure the transport/export/import thing yourself. :)

Regards, Matjaz
 
C

Coleonyx

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I am soooo jealous of you!!! :)
Maybe I can get someone from the states who is going to bring some back from me!

Thanks,
Alex
 
mat.si

mat.si

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Hi!
Unfortunately, I've never shipped any animals to the US or anywhere else for that matter.

I only go to expos in Europe (Germany, Austria and Italy) to sell my cb geckos.
I wish I could go to some expos in the US one day.

I dust all the food items for my elegans with vitamin/mineral powder and I give them scrapped sepia bone, specially during breeding season. Females eat quite a lot of it.
I never had any problems with calcium deficiency.

Matjaz
 
C

Coleonyx

New member
thats cool. I heard that they can't tolerate a lot. I will ask Nathan if he could bring me back some of your geckos! What are the prices for striped, banded and other varieties? Do they normally have other banded geckos at Hamm?
 
mat.si

mat.si

Super Moderator
I've almost never seen any other Coleonyx in Hamm except elegans and mitratus.
Sent you a pm.

Matjaz
 
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