INFO on C.elok

[krypticrhacs]

Hi, I have been building a small colony of C. elok in hopes of breeding them and having more C.B. in the market. However, I have been able to tell the sex of all of them except for one. Most adult males there is an obvious package that has 2 bulges, and adult female have nothing. I have one animal that has a small bulge (Its also a smaller animal), but it only has one small bulge, there is no distinction of 2 separate bulges like your typical male, however none of my females have any bulge at all.

Also I have been searching for as much info on them as possible, and I was wondering does anybody know of a site that info on their natural habitat. Im looking for like graphs and charts of humidity, temp., precipitation etc. of Malaysia. Im basically trying to recreate their environment as I have them for a while and I have not been able to get eggs. So there must be something Im missing.

thanks for any help,
Dan

 

[acpart]

If you google "Malaysia climate" you should easily be able to find that information.

Aliza

 

[Tamara]

Besides some scientific reports there isn't much descent info regarding Cyrtodactylus i'm afraid, we have been trying to figure out the exact subspecies of a pair of our Cyrto's but it has proven to be a real task.
We bought them as C. fumosus, now they propably are C. pubisulcus but stil not 100% sure.

Anyway...
For climate in Malaysia we would also do what Aliza said.
The description you give abouth the hemipenal bulge sound's weird, but we would asume it's a male than.
Do you have any pictures of it?

For more info abouth breeding and general care maybe you can try and see if you can contact Thomas Canu, he is also Belgian and has worked with several Cyrtodactylus species, including elok.

Good luck with them, we personaly find them a very interesting, but sadly also a bit underrated genus of gecko's.

 

[acpart]

Gecko Time would love to have an article about this genus. Please contact me if interested.

Aliza

 

[Bowfinger]

I had some good success with this species, before getting busy with work and eventually selling off the group. There should be some posts that go back to I believe 2006-2008 range, cant remember off hand. I had them in small cages with live ficus, cork in pairs, on peat. Yours might not all be mature enough? Post some pictures.

Here is what my set-up looked like...

and the babies...

 

[Tongue Flicker]

The males of C.mamanwa I've seen, along with the male I have, seems to have some sort of "mating pads" on the belly other than the bulges they have