Gonatodes pics
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svevs
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Gonatodes vittatus
Hi Adam,
thanks for sharing your nice pictures of these pretty shy day geckos. As for vittatus females – it seems that the lack of vittatus females exists also here in Europe as no offering classified ads are commonly visible on related parts of existing European day gecko web sites.
Regards,
Radim
P.S. I wonder if Gonatodes antillensis are in breeding of some US breeders :roll:.
Hi Adam,
thanks for sharing your nice pictures of these pretty shy day geckos. As for vittatus females – it seems that the lack of vittatus females exists also here in Europe as no offering classified ads are commonly visible on related parts of existing European day gecko web sites.
Regards,
Radim
P.S. I wonder if Gonatodes antillensis are in breeding of some US breeders :roll:.
Phelsuma04
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What's the conservation status on these geckos? Are they heavily protected?
svevs
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Gonatodes vittatus female
Hi Adam,
I would not say they are heavily protected. However, for instance, it is sad reality that there exist only a few Gonatodes breeders and limited number of bred Gonatodes species in my country
. Therefore Gonatodes are not generally as popular/widely distributed as another day gecko genus Phelsuma is.
Even if vittatus is considered to be rather more frequently bred Gonatodes species I would say that maybe the main reason of females lack is their generally shorter lifespan (due to known reasons) in comparison with the male’s one.
Adam, currently I have similar problem you have. However, thanks to my German friend I should get my first 1-2 vittatus females to my 2 currently alone males early the next year :lol:. All that after a couple months long listing on his waiting list.
Regards,
Radim
Hi Adam,
I would not say they are heavily protected. However, for instance, it is sad reality that there exist only a few Gonatodes breeders and limited number of bred Gonatodes species in my country
. Therefore Gonatodes are not generally as popular/widely distributed as another day gecko genus Phelsuma is.Even if vittatus is considered to be rather more frequently bred Gonatodes species I would say that maybe the main reason of females lack is their generally shorter lifespan (due to known reasons) in comparison with the male’s one.
Adam, currently I have similar problem you have. However, thanks to my German friend I should get my first 1-2 vittatus females to my 2 currently alone males early the next year :lol:. All that after a couple months long listing on his waiting list.
Regards,
Radim
Phelsuma04
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Congratulations on getting some females Radim! I need such luck! You would think importers would bring a few in when they can because it seems they are in relatively high demand.
Hey Bugman, if yours produce (assuming you have a pair) keep me in mind please. I'm desperate! I'll trade or buy or whatever.
Hey Bugman, if yours produce (assuming you have a pair) keep me in mind please. I'm desperate! I'll trade or buy or whatever.
Phelsuma04
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svevs
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Day geckos pictures
Hi Adam,
thank you for your new nice photos of your day geckos. In return for your pictures I send you also some snapshots of my Gonatodes males as I have no Lygos or Sphaeros in my breeding. As mentioned above I should get my first vittatus and ocellatus females in Germany this weekend :banana:.
Best regards,
Radim
Hi Adam,
thank you for your new nice photos of your day geckos. In return for your pictures I send you also some snapshots of my Gonatodes males as I have no Lygos or Sphaeros in my breeding. As mentioned above I should get my first vittatus and ocellatus females in Germany this weekend :banana:.
Best regards,
Radim
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Phelsuma04
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Radim,
Your geckos are beautiful! I am partial to vittatus and yours looks great!
Make sure you take some photos of your new geckos when you get them. Take care.
Your geckos are beautiful! I am partial to vittatus and yours looks great!
Make sure you take some photos of your new geckos when you get them. Take care.
svevs
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Gonatodes
Hi Adam,
Yes, you are right that Gonatodes vittatus is really very nice species, even if I consider my vittatus males to be the shyest Gonatodes I have. Be sure that I will take and share some pictures of reserved vittatus and ocellatus females later. I like all Gonatodes females, even if I have the only one (fuscus) so far. She is very funny when non-flying fruit flies are offered. She jumps like crazy to catch them all before they run away definitely and vacuum cleaner would not hoover them all quicker :rofl: !
With best regards,
Radim
Hi Peter,
You are fully right that I have a reservation of one pair of beautiful Gonatodes caudiscutatus in Pirna :biggrin:. I put already the money aside for this pair and one empty terrarium is also ready to greet new lodgers! The caudiscutatus male on your picture is really great!
I will reach Dresden tomorrow in the early afternoon, I am looking forward to meet you all this weekend ;-)!
With best regards,
Radim
Hi Adam,
Yes, you are right that Gonatodes vittatus is really very nice species, even if I consider my vittatus males to be the shyest Gonatodes I have. Be sure that I will take and share some pictures of reserved vittatus and ocellatus females later. I like all Gonatodes females, even if I have the only one (fuscus) so far. She is very funny when non-flying fruit flies are offered. She jumps like crazy to catch them all before they run away definitely and vacuum cleaner would not hoover them all quicker :rofl: !
With best regards,
Radim
Hi Peter,
You are fully right that I have a reservation of one pair of beautiful Gonatodes caudiscutatus in Pirna :biggrin:. I put already the money aside for this pair and one empty terrarium is also ready to greet new lodgers! The caudiscutatus male on your picture is really great!
I will reach Dresden tomorrow in the early afternoon, I am looking forward to meet you all this weekend ;-)!
With best regards,
Radim
svevs
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Ocellatus and vittatus females
Hi Adam,
as promised above I attach two pictures of my two newly acquired Gonatodes females. Both females (ocellatus and vittatus) are still pretty young and so I am going to keep them separately in special plastic boxes for a certain time. I will pair them with my fully adult males later this spring. The pictures are not very “artistic” but I consider them to be relatively sharp ;-) – enjoy them.
Regards,
Radim
Hi Adam,
as promised above I attach two pictures of my two newly acquired Gonatodes females. Both females (ocellatus and vittatus) are still pretty young and so I am going to keep them separately in special plastic boxes for a certain time. I will pair them with my fully adult males later this spring. The pictures are not very “artistic” but I consider them to be relatively sharp ;-) – enjoy them.
Regards,
Radim
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Phelsuma04
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Radim,
They look great! I hope they are very productive for you!
My female occelatus has laid a single egg clutch which hatched but was unable to keep the juvenile alive. They are sooo small when they hatch!
Anyhow, I wish I could find a female vittatus. You are quite lucky Radim.
Take care
They look great! I hope they are very productive for you!
My female occelatus has laid a single egg clutch which hatched but was unable to keep the juvenile alive. They are sooo small when they hatch!
Anyhow, I wish I could find a female vittatus. You are quite lucky Radim.
Take care
svevs
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Gonatodes neonates
Hi Adam,
be sure that you will find your vittatus female sooner or later ! Before this, please accept two breeding recommendations for newly hatched Gonatodes. I got them from my German friends time ago and I have applied them both successfully for my three fuscus neonates (12/2008, 01 and 03/2009) after.
a) do not keep young Gonatodes under UV lamp or tube – heavy shedding problems leading to death can occur. I lost one ocellatus young kept under UV tube last fall.
b) feed them with slow and soft micro-feeding – e.g. white woodlices (Trichorhina tomentosa) or ovenfisches (Thermobia domestica). As for me the micro-crickets or flying fruit-flies seems to be too speedy for neonates to hunt them each time.
I apologize myself if recommending you something you already know about ;-) .
Regards ,
Radim
Hi Adam,
be sure that you will find your vittatus female sooner or later
! Before this, please accept two breeding recommendations for newly hatched Gonatodes. I got them from my German friends time ago and I have applied them both successfully for my three fuscus neonates (12/2008, 01 and 03/2009) after.a) do not keep young Gonatodes under UV lamp or tube – heavy shedding problems leading to death can occur. I lost one ocellatus young kept under UV tube last fall.
b) feed them with slow and soft micro-feeding – e.g. white woodlices (Trichorhina tomentosa) or ovenfisches (Thermobia domestica). As for me the micro-crickets or flying fruit-flies seems to be too speedy for neonates to hunt them each time.
I apologize myself if recommending you something you already know about ;-) .
Regards ,
Radim