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Just wanted to let you all know that I've received my third set of eggs this season from my group 1 ebanaui. total for her this year is 4 fertiles, 2 infertiles. Bummer but hey 2/3 ratio is not bad.

cheers
jason

way to go!...these are fertile, right? i cracked and decided to buy another single female phant....i still have too many males. anyway, not too thrilled because i made the payment after receiving email that he was holding one for me since i emailed first, called back later today to find out that he decided to sell the one with my name on it to someone else. he said he'll get me one in the next shipment which should be coming soon, but the fact that he said he was holding her then sold her doesnt make me too happy....

If you purchased it from anyone but Michael Cole I would be laying golden bricks. But you know me, I don't trust anyone in the importing scene for the most part. get your money back, remember the alex situation.

Jason

yea, the more i think about it, the less thrilled i am that he basically told me he was holding one for me then didnt. im about to send him an email. i would definitely have preferred to go thru michael cole, but as far as i know he's selling pairs only as all the rest...this was the only guy i could find that was selling single females. ah well... im just gonna get my $$$ back.

Who did you purchase it from? I want to make sure my list on "no go business" is up to date and ready to go.

Jason

Weird....my female henk dropped another fertile this a.m. as well...only a single egg though, she's not into the whole two eggs/clutch business (sigh)....

atleast yours was fertile. Sindars last one was not, but she always lays only one, wonder why, most lay 2.
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PHEve / Eve

thats really good news, glad your doing so well!
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PHEve / Eve

Well, my female Henkeli lays 2 eggs about every month. She has never missed 1 month and they are always fertile!! Right now I have 4 baby Henkeli that I hatched out and I sold the first 2 awhile ago!! I really need to get some more females though as I only have a pair.

Try feeding your female Henkeli pinkies. Mine eats pinkies and she lays like a leopard gecko! Good Luck! Erik

i've heard about larger leaftails like fims and henks taking pinkies, and i was wondering, does anyone think that they would go for other vertebrate feeders like small house geckos? didnt know if anyone had ever given that some thought.

i don't see why they wouldn't take them. if it's the right size and it moves i'm sure they would eat them.

I have thought about it but alot of feeders, anoles and house geckos are wild caught. That means that they could have parasites. It may not be the case where you live but here in Colorado all anoles and house geckos are wild caught. Although, if I found someone who breeds them I might try it, just for something new! Erik

yea, i already considered the possibility of parasites. the main reason i brought it up was because when i took my trip to the keys, we caught buttloads of house geckos...they're simply everywhere. a lot were infested with mites, but i found that they were very easily treated with reptile relief. as for internal parasites, who knows...

there were also tons of eggs out there, and a lot of the females we caught were gravid. i got a few eggs from them, but i didnt realize the snails i also brought back would engulf them nearly whole, so they were all gobbled up by the time i noticed.

i think anoles might get a tad too big for the most part, and the fact that they are diurnal may mean their inactivity at night makes them less tempting as a food item. maybe young ones would work. just wondering if anyone had ever tried...

i would feed my male w/c henkels frozen fuzzies every now and then if i had a few extras. i hadnt fed him any in a long time though. but i know for a fact that henkels and fimbriatus are lizard eaters in the wild, but its probably also the best way to load your leaftail up with parasites. i have a standings that roams free in my animal room and my henkels always keep an eye on her.

keep an eye on her as if they want to eat her? geez, i would think that p.m. standingi are way too big to eat...

and where did you hear that they are lizard eaters in the wild?

one of my female p.standingi that i decided to keep, cuz of her color, has had the run of the room since she was about four or five months old. shes not quite full grown now, about seven inches, but when she makes any sudden movements the leaftails turn their heads. i was just curious one day and grabbed an anole from the side of my apartment in nc and threw it in the cage with my male henkel. he didnt hesitate one second. you have to figure that large henkels and fimbriatus in the wild will take anythin that moves; bats, treefrogs, small mice, and any small lizard that crosses their path at night or in the daytime. in the daytime most leaftails are usually not active, but will grab anythin that runs across their path--the mossys especially--like a trap door spider.

BATS!!!! I concur that Uros are trigger happy, and are oppurtunistic feeders, but BATS! Their jaw structure is nowhere near powerful enough to handle something as powerful as a bat, or other smaller mammals. Yes, in captivity they will readily take pinkies, but it's rather difficult to come across pinkies running around the jungle. BATS!!!!!!!!!!!

most bats are tiny and a lot of them are smaller than fuzzies. i mean, im sure its not all that common, but at the same time it would make sense for a big leaftail to be hangin out just inside of a cave opening or a tree hollow waitin for the bats to sworm out. tree frogs do it, snakes do it, spiders do it, and other large nocturnal geckos probably do it too.

Great assumption...

Next time you post info along the lines of this please make sure you have valid proof to base it off of. We don't need any fools out there trying to catch a bat to feed to their large Uroplatus geckos. That would be a fun one to read about...

Seriously, sometimes the info that is posted on this forum is a load of gauno. Unless you know for a fact, don't post it as if it were a fact. More of an opinion.

Cheers,
jason

most leaftails are real trigger happy, theyll grab anything. my male henkels have grabbed my hand on several occasions just out of instinct. they let go right away, but still...