Eastern Aussie Viv

[PassPort]

Well, here's my little mixed species eastern Aussie viv hat I threw together. I modeled it after habitat photos I'd seen for the 2 species that live in it, Diplodactylus vittatus and Strophurus williamsi. Let me know what you guys think.
-Kevin

 

[warren63]

Yes looks good, thumbs up from me!! All you need now is a couple bits of litter and its perfect

 

[PassPort]

lol, thanks mate! I thought I did well with the dead palm tree bits, manazanita (a native south western US plant) twigs and some good ol' Aussie bottle brush. Also used was 2 types of oak leaf litter, and some generic twigs as well as cork bark and grape vine. The actual substrate itself is a mix of red sand and sifted organic potting soil.

 

[Chris3004]

Someone obviously forgot his lunchbox before taking the habitat pics

 

[PassPort]

haha, ya the nest box! I realized that once the pics were already posted, lol

 

[quent7540]

OK, thank you very much for it is infomration

 

[Peter B]

@Kevin: what size is your vivarium? I'm also planning to combine D. vittatus with Strophurus, but taenicauda instead of williamsi, in a 50x50X100cm high viv. In inch that would be something like 16X16X33 i think. That will work well. Or not?

 

[quent7540]

50x50X100cm?!

It is really very big for animals of so small size

 

[PassPort]

standard 5.5 gallon, not sure of the dimensions

 

[PassPort]

my 5.5 gallon is roughly 16x8x10 in inches, or roughly 41x21x26cm

 

[Peter B]

When will you overseas use "normal" units like centimeter, liter, .....Would be a lot easier for everyone.:biggrin:

 

[PassPort]

I agree, I try to use them as much as possible

 

[Peter B]

We can ask Marty to put an inch-centimeter; gallon-liter and farenheit-centigrade convertor in the corner of this site:idea::idea::idea:

 

[PassPort]

that's actually a really good idea! Marty, are you reading this???? make it happen!

 

[Salamanko]

Awesome setup, looks so natural. I thought you could only mix Oedura species with each other. Also how did you use all that natural stuff without having any parasites affect your geckos. By the way how'd you get those Aussie native geckos if you live in San Diego. Did you use a importing permit?

 

[PassPort]

a bunch of Australian herps sneaked out of the country back in the 70's and 80's. I'm not sure of the details, as it was all before my time (I'm only 24). Either way a good population of aussie herps here in the states.

As far as the twigs go, they were all collected from my own yard and I baked them in my oven to kill any parasites.