Nice tokay surprise!!

[fenrisswolf]

Well, it had been a rather irritating week all around until tonight. I just got home, and was feeding the critters, when I got to my tokay's tank.

Now I've had this particular tokay since November, and I had never gotten around to sexing it, but I was in no particular hurry since it resides alone.

But apparently, it is a she, and a fertile one at that.

:biggrin: I found a little baby tokay in her tank tonight!!! :biggrin:​

Cute little bugger, even if "he" was an unplanned first child. :blushing::blushing:

Now I have to catch him before he gets eaten. (Or move mom, which may be much easier, even if it means setting up another tank for her.)



I'll post pictures of the new addition as soon as I can...

 

[BlakeDeffenbaugh]

She wont eat it. She will actually protect it. I take all mine out anyway but never get in any kind of a hurry with it myself.

 

[fenrisswolf]

Nice to know,

I had always thought Tokays were somewhat cannibalistic of smaller members of their own species. (protecting their own young would also make evolutionary sense in that case, I suppose.)

I managed to move the baby anyway, so I'm a little less worried about it now. (I was also worried about crickets fed to mom potentially nibbling on him.)

 

[cliff_f]

I usally leave my hatchlings with the parents for about a week before I take them out.

 

[fenrisswolf]

Photo!

Just a quick headshot of the new addition to the family, as most of the other attempts didn't come out too well...

 

[jabberwock486]

She wont eat it. She will actually protect it. I take all mine out anyway but never get in any kind of a hurry with it myself.

i have a pair of babies in with my breeding pair. even after 3 weeks they are still very protective on their babies. the babies also seem to know this and stick around the parents.


i will add i have kept both mom and dad happy and fed, my cage is around 75 gallons and there are plenty of places for the geckos to go.

i will be getting them out in a day or so to sell. had to find the gloves and getting mom and dad out will be the hardest part. another thing i need to do is widen the holes in their stump. my male got stuck trying to get in when the female's tail was in the way. both have gotten big, i will post pictures of them.

 

[BlakeDeffenbaugh]

That dont look like a Tokay to me. Got any better pics?

 

[KeXx]

Those kind of surprises are always fun!

Let's see some more pictures of the rookie.

 

[Ingo]

Nice Blaesodactylus sakalava hatchling :biggrin:. Never hatched out of a tokay egg though.:coverlaugh:

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

If that's what came out of your tokay egg, I bet it was a BIG surprise! :lol:
My guess is that you posted the wrong picture though.

 

[BlakeDeffenbaugh]

Nice Blaesodactylus sakalava hatchling :biggrin:.

Thats what I thought it was but couldnt really tell from the head.

 

[fenrisswolf]

Hmmm....

I'll try to take a better picture to confirm it, but thinking it over...

There is a fairly good possibility that it could be a Sakalava, as the baby Sakalava pictures I've seen here are a close match, the current Tokay tank was the old Sakalava tank, and the timeline (7+ months,) is about right for their incubation...

And it would make more sense to have missed an egg buried in the substrate than one stuck to the hide/decorations...

If it is a Sakalava, it got lucky. It somehow got past my cleaning and turning over of the substrate in the tank, and then being completely ignored for a few weeks in a storage closet, until I pulled it out to house the Tokay.

Either way, it's a healthy baby, active and eating, so I'm glad I found him.

 

[Ingo]

Yes, a nice surprise -and it definitely IS a sakalava.

 

[fenrisswolf]

In that case:

baby escapes detection until hatching! :evil: