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corallus1
at Fri Jul 11 15:26:20 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by corallus1 ]
Hi rick,
I am glad to give some answers.
Q: 1. What size enclosure do you have them in?
A: I keep them in an enclosure made of seals wood of 2.5 feet x 2.5 feet x 5 feet : width x depth x height. For heat I use a large IR bulb ( nocturnal ) and for lighting I use UV lighting. I think this is the essential thing for them to do well. Two weeks after I placed this UV lighting they MATED, so there you are. By the way this is a day active species so why no UV??
Q: 2. Is the enclosure heavily planted?
A: Yes it is!!! This increases humidity, cleans air and looks nice. I do not use fake plants.
Q: 3. What is their feeding, and misting schedule?
A: I feed the adult female two live adult gekko's (hemadactilus frenatus, or common house gekko's) each week and the adult male, which is half the size of the female, only one a week.
During pregnancy I increased the feeding slightly.
I hardly ever mist the enclosure. The plants do most of the work. Still I have the humidity on the lowside (50-60%)only performing extra misting during shed cicle!!!
Q: 4. Did you use any suppliments of any kind?
A: No supplements. I do feed the gekko's with supplemented crickets, but that doesn't really count.
Q: 5. When were the adult obtained and from what source.
A: I got them from a reptile show in the Netherlands. I initially bought 2 adult females and one male. The larger of the two females died after a couple of days, which was forseen.
They are wildcaight and do not know the exact origin of the snakes.
Hope to have informed you and any further Q's are always welcome!!!
PJ
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RE: baby prasina's are born - corallus1, Fri Jul 11 15:26:20 2003