Well I am trying to get ideas together about how and where to put the hatchlings.

I have tried putting way more food items in the enclosure and offering mealworms to limit food aggression.

I plan on dividing the existing cage into halfs and taking a 40 gal aquarium out of retirement and dividing that one as well.

Lighting and heat will be an obstacle....

These guys eat right out of my hand , but still try to eat their brothers hand......Yikes..

As far as the breeding, had no clue about the introduction on the floor, I was just showing my niece and her boyfriend the complicated courtship behavior and Voilla! Go figure!

Sorry to hear about your DI's . I have had an egyptian pick up an Acanthinurus in it's mouth and throw it across the cage like a rag doll, thankfully no real injury...scared the crap out of me. After seeing what happened after my first breeding attempt, and what happened with the Morroccan, I really believe that Uro's (especially Egyptians) should not be pair in the same cage.

Finding singular caging for 24 Babies is really a daunting task though!

Thanks for all the encouragement and posts...

Ed





>>Great job Ed! I have had the same aggression problems with acanthinurus just a couple days out of the eggs. I believe Debb has too with the Ebonies. I had to seperate the acanths into one in a cage. They have to be seperated too becuase they will kill each other. Egyptians seem to be almost cannibalisitic. I have had the babies take other lizards apart limb by limb. I had purchased some hatchling Egyptians and hatched out some desert iguanas hatch at the same time and had limited cage space so I put them together. Bad idea! After the killed and ate the di's they started on themselves. Some people I know make alsmost like a snake rack type thing for the babies. Off course it has to be lighted unlike a snake rack.

>> I do tend to agree with Greg about the incubation protocal of most lizards. I really do not think parameters are that critical but when talking to most uros breeders that might not be the case with uromastyx. It seems they need pretty tight parameters.

>> I see you uros bred out on the floor of a room. I did not know if you knew this but that was an old trick wiith beardeds and frilleds and I am not sure why it works but if you take a seamingly uninterested pair and take them out of their cage and put them on the floor in a room it triggers something and they almost breed immediately. Good luck and again great job.

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