Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => Pets without Feathers => Topic started by: spottymint on September 21, 2012, 21:45
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No, not chicken ! ::)
You should know me by now, Lizard eggs.
My crested gecko's lay eggs in the substrate & will hatch at room temps.
I found 2 newly hatched babies on the 27th August, 21st of September & just found another 2 hatching's. :ohmy:
They lay them in pairs, about a month apart, how many more ? ???
Will try to get pic's up over the weekend, baby 1 is 1.9g & baby 2 is 1.6g at a month old.
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One insurance company over here uses a gecko for it's telly ads, so it will be interesting to see pics of a real one.
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New babies, can't wait for the photos. :D
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Some promised pictures.
These are Crested Gecko's ( Rhacodactylus ciliatus.), discovered in 1866, believed extinct in 1994.
After re-discovery, about 400 taken into captivity & the resulting pet's are all descendents of these 400.
A one day old baby with pound coin,
(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm265/spottymint/Babygecko2_zps291ade56.jpg)
One month old baby on the right (weight 1.9g), Day old baby on the left,
(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm265/spottymint/Babygecko1_zps068aad4f.jpg)
This is Dad, Dash, A Harlequin Crested Gecko.
(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm265/spottymint/DadDash_zps6cab3f29.jpg)
Pictures are poor, due to them being fast. Excuse the dirty carpet, needs a hoover. :blush:
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When you have pets who has time to hoover!!! :wub: I am considering getting someone to do the housework so i can spend time on more important things. :unsure:
They remind me of the baby newts we had to move in the garden when we were landscaping for the chicken run.
My neighbour was collecting some cobbles from our garden this year when she was hen sitting and she said she came across more babies so they seem to be thriving in our garden. :)
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Hmm, interesting creatures. But not sure I'd want one :D
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O/H would love newts in the garden. He collects the frog spawn to save as many as he can before releasing the frog-lets.
He's not interested in the lizards at all, which seems funny.
The gecko's are really velvety & soft, but they have no eyelids & lick their eyes.
They also jump & can catch branches/fingers with their tails (which they often shed in the wild) & tailless cresties are called "frog-bums".
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They are beautiful, I would love one but OH would freak.
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Thanks for posting the piccies :D
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They are lovely but a pair of babies a month :blink: What are you going to do with them all Spotty? Will the lizzard shop buy them off you or swap them for something :)
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They will be sold off, lizard shops may take them or via websites.
May hold one or 2 back, if female, they will stay, all males will be sold.
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They are lovely, don't think I've every seen one at day old before.