Ebenavia inunguis
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monkeystyle
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What beautiful geckos! I love the different tail textures!
monkeystyle
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Doh! Now the tail texture difference makes sense! 
stickytoed!
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Healthy and beautiful. Are they breeding/any eggs found? I am*about to start a cooling phase then warming before reintroduction. Any hints, tips, tricks or suggestions?
Tamara
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Thanks.
Yes they have bred for us last year.
They are wild caught and the female laid 2 bad eggs when she first came in, then stopped for almost 8 month's and started again last spring.
We keep them in a rather large, 59-20-24 inch, well planted, mixed, Ranomafana biotope vivarium.
A bit on the humid side with lots of ventilation and with a good amount of leaf litter covering the substrate.
We also have them a zoomed 5.0 uv-b bulb and a 6500K bulb for growth of the plants, no additional heat is provided, as they share the enclosure with some species that like it cooler.
Keeping them like this is great, as you can observe their natural behaviour realy well, but mixing species is not something we would encourage people to try themselfs.
It can also be a real pain to find the eggs in such a large enclosure.
Here's a photo of the female.., gravid.
Greetings.
Yes they have bred for us last year.
They are wild caught and the female laid 2 bad eggs when she first came in, then stopped for almost 8 month's and started again last spring.
We keep them in a rather large, 59-20-24 inch, well planted, mixed, Ranomafana biotope vivarium.
A bit on the humid side with lots of ventilation and with a good amount of leaf litter covering the substrate.
We also have them a zoomed 5.0 uv-b bulb and a 6500K bulb for growth of the plants, no additional heat is provided, as they share the enclosure with some species that like it cooler.
Keeping them like this is great, as you can observe their natural behaviour realy well, but mixing species is not something we would encourage people to try themselfs.
It can also be a real pain to find the eggs in such a large enclosure.
Here's a photo of the female.., gravid.
Greetings.
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stickytoed!
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Thank you for your quick reply! Where is your female laying her eggs? Have any of the eggs ever been buried? I have have a UVB producing, CFL bulb, rated 90+CRI, but only 3500K. In the warmer months I have that in combination with a small-domed (allowing good temp gradient), low watt halogen night bulb. They have basked in and enjoyed this small bit of heat in the past. I have 2 separate pairs, imported a year ago, kept in relatively large, well planted vivaria as well. Hoping I will be able to find the eggs when and if they lay..
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
Tamara
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As they share their enclosure with a few other cooler temperature loving species we keep our temperatures from 22-23°C during the day, with a drop to around 17-18°C at night.
It's variable though, with slightly warmer temps in the summer, and slightly lower temps during the winter months.
We do not strictly monitor the humidity levels in our cages anymore, we have found that 1-2 mistings during most of the year is sufficient to keep them well hydrated, during the summer month's we do increase it to 3-4 times a day, on a very hot day maybe even 5-6 times.
[MENTION=53302]stickytoed![/MENTION]
Sorry for the late reply, i must have missed your question somehow...
Up untill now she has always layed her eggs under the leaf litter.
We have seen ours basking under the UV light as well, we do not have an additional heat source but i'm sure they don't mind if you provide them with one.
Grtz.
It's variable though, with slightly warmer temps in the summer, and slightly lower temps during the winter months.
We do not strictly monitor the humidity levels in our cages anymore, we have found that 1-2 mistings during most of the year is sufficient to keep them well hydrated, during the summer month's we do increase it to 3-4 times a day, on a very hot day maybe even 5-6 times.
[MENTION=53302]stickytoed![/MENTION]
Sorry for the late reply, i must have missed your question somehow...
Up untill now she has always layed her eggs under the leaf litter.
We have seen ours basking under the UV light as well, we do not have an additional heat source but i'm sure they don't mind if you provide them with one.
Grtz.