Some pics of my Hainan Cave Geckos.

[JimmyNightlizard]

These are of the highland form. The two adults are the parents of the two juvi's pictured. The adult with its original tail is the father, and the one with the regenerated tail is the mother. I hatched out several babies this fall. I was lucky enough to photograph acouple of the babies as they were hatching out of their eggs, once in september and again november. Today I took a few good solo pics of the 3 month old male. He is also pictured with his mother, and then again with his father. The three month old is not very camera shy. Some of the other juvi's are very skiddish, and difficult to photograph. The one on my hand is 6 weeks old, also did not seem too shy today. Enjoy

 

[SaSobek]

good little group there. gotta love cave geckos.

 

[OffshoreMetal]

Wow , I love cave geckos ! I think they are extremely beautiful !
Probably my next gecko

 

[Dan K.]

those are pretty cool

 

[geckoboy30]

sweet they look awesome!

 

[Frogeye611]

What temp did you incubate the eggs at?

 

[JimmyNightlizard]

What temp did you incubate the eggs at?

I kind of played it safe the first time by keeping them around 80 during the day, then lowered it to 78-75 at night. I ended up with 4 males and two females. You can keep them alittle warmer if you want more females than males. Just don't go past 84 degrees.

 

[geckomaster]

I'm curious about the temp sex detemination in goni question. What's everybody's experience on this. I got a bunch of girls about to start dropping (one probably tonight). I got the incubator fired up, but would prefer more females than males. It's too cold here for me to go room temp right now and I had all females hatch out at room temp last year (74-78 avg), but if everyones having more success with girls at higher temps I'd prefer to go that route and shorten the incubation time. Jimmynightlizard you have some great pics and I wish you a great season (talk to me late summer about possible trades if interested since we're both in Chicago) as well as everybody else let's start pumping out some gonis :cheer:

 

[Frogeye611]

Need to get more cave geckos out there. I'm keeping my eggs somewhat warmer due to temps in different rooms...will see how eggs do if fertile. I wonder if warmer temps creates males and lower temps for females...but also wonder about "hot females" as seen with Leopards. I have a few hot females and they have never bred/have been very aggressive.

 

[Frogeye611]

Ooops, I meant I have seen hot females with Leopards only.

 

[JimmyNightlizard]

I'm curious about the temp sex detemination in goni question. What's everybody's experience on this. I got a bunch of girls about to start dropping (one probably tonight). I got the incubator fired up, but would prefer more females than males. It's too cold here for me to go room temp right now and I had all females hatch out at room temp last year (74-78 avg), but if everyones having more success with girls at higher temps I'd prefer to go that route and shorten the incubation time. Jimmynightlizard you have some great pics and I wish you a great season (talk to me late summer about possible trades if interested since we're both in Chicago) as well as everybody else let's start pumping out some gonis :cheer:

This is very interesting to hear! Sounds like there is more than one way to get more females. I'm just experimenting with a temp increase this time to see what happens? I'm keeping the 4 goni eggs I currently have between 78-82. As far as a possible bl trade goes, I will keep that in mind. Right now I have 6 Cyrtodactylus pulchellus eggs, 4 Goniurosaurus hainanensis eggs, and 3 Pachydactylus facsiata eggs incubating. And more to come from all the above I'm sure! This should be a very productive summer

 

[seekn68]

very nice!!

 

[Frogeye611]

Got a pair of Hainanensis eggs incubating at 80 degrees. I think my female is done laying...how long does their breeding season last? I put her with my male about 2 weeks ago...and no visible eggs showing. Still looking for a female luii for either of my two males.

 

[JimmyNightlizard]

Got a pair of Hainanensis eggs incubating at 80 degrees. I think my female is done laying...how long does their breeding season last? I put her with my male about 2 weeks ago...and no visible eggs showing. Still looking for a female luii for either of my two males.

Female cave geckos can lay 3 clutches of 2 eggs per season. It takes about two months after mating for females to lay eggs. I witnessed both of my pairs mating. This is easiest to do in the month of march after a 2-4 week cooling period. This way the females are much more receptive to the males. As soon as I introduced them they went right at it! And yes I have pictures of the goni porn! As soon as I find my adaptor for my camera I will load them up and post them on here. Good luck finding your luii, I am having similar problems finding female pegu zebra stripe gecko's cyrtodactylus peguensis zebraicus. These are the ones that chirp like a bird. The male pegu wakes me up almost every day