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Kermit had 12 babies friday morning! Seven months since her last birthing, when she had 11 aug 11th. I guess the others will follow suite soon. Time to crank up the fruit fly culture a notch or three. By the way, made it through another arkansas winter with just a space heater in the greenhouse, extremely mild winter however.
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1.5 Jacksonii Xantholophus (two red marbled fem}
Jacksonii Xantholophus neonates
0.0.2 Phelsuma M. Grandis
2.3 Anolis C. with 5 neonates
1 texas blue spiny

Alan! He lives! Congrats on the new babies! And you have more on the way? Busy guy again...hehehe! What did you end up doing with all your other babies?

Take care
Kristen
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1.2 pygmy leaf (r. brev)
1.1 carpet chameleon (f. lateralis)
0.1 quadricornis
0.0.3 red eared sliders

Hi,

Congrats on the babies! My female jackson gave birth on saturday morning to 10 babies- although it looks like only about 6 or 7 are going to be strond enough to make it throught the first couple weeks. I am just curious about how you keep your babies. I have 3 set up individually in the "milk carton" cages that are shown in the below poasts. The rest are in a 20 qt. rubbermaid container. Also, how many usually make it to 3 months from your cluches. Last time I had 13 or 14 babies and 7 of them made it but this time it looks like it will be less.

~Craig

Howdy,
I kept my neonates all in a large cage last year, open air, in the shade (it was summer). I plan to keep the new ones in the greenhouse with the adults and last year's babies (contrary to popular belief mine do not eat the babies). But my case is different, the greenhouse is an extremely convoluted and very well planted environment in which they can find their little nooks and don't have to crawl over each other or touch each other. The one big outdoor cage worked extremely well, I think I only lost seven out of about 40, I need to look that up to be sure. I personally think SPACE is the most important thing, they need variety in their environment which cant be accomplished without a roomy enclosure. They can also handle alot more warmth than I have ever read. It is evidently all subjective however, find what works best through YOUR OWN experimentation, GOOD LUCK!

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>>Congrats on the babies! My female jackson gave birth on saturday morning to 10 babies- although it looks like only about 6 or 7 are going to be strond enough to make it throught the first couple weeks. I am just curious about how you keep your babies. I have 3 set up individually in the "milk carton" cages that are shown in the below poasts. The rest are in a 20 qt. rubbermaid container. Also, how many usually make it to 3 months from your cluches. Last time I had 13 or 14 babies and 7 of them made it but this time it looks like it will be less.
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>>~Craig
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http://photos.yahoo.com/alanvines2002
1.5 Jacksonii Xantholophus (two red marbled fem}
Jacksonii Xantholophus neonates
0.0.2 Phelsuma M. Grandis
2.3 Anolis C. with 5 neonates
1 texas blue spiny

Your greenhouse is my lifelong dream. Envy!!!

One day...

hey,

The concept of a huge cage sounds interesting. How big is the one that your babies are in? Also, how do you provide food in an enclosure that size?

Thanks,
Craig