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Well, I have 1.1 sikorae and 1.0 sameiti and my female sikorae laid 3 infertile eggs this month that I've seen. a couple of weeks ago she laid 1 big infertile egg on her branch while I was misting her and the tank. A minute later she turned around and ate it. Today, I saw 2 smaller infertile eggs on a leaf. I misted the tank to freshen them up a little so they werent so dried out and to wake her up a little. Then I picked em up with a toothpick and put them infront of her face. She licked and smelled em and then she ate both of them. I didn't want her to lose the calcium. Just thought I'd share. Any advice on getting fertiles? this just means the male isnt doing his job?

any wild caught leaftail usually takes about a year in your possession to start laying good fertile eggs. but, i feel you on this topic, cuz ive had my pair of mossies for over a year and a half and they arent connecting. my female came into this season like a champ, very heavy with huge chalk sacs, but thats it. she s been laying two dud eggs within a couple days of eachother a month apart from each clutch. now i know that my l.t.c. female is not a sameiti, but im almost positive that shes from a different locale. whether shes a different subspecies or just a different strain, my male has no interest. now i did consider the competitive aspect with adding another male, i could kick myself for not picking that last one up at the show. i figured that their difference was just sexual dimorphism. BUT, i noticed that my newer female resembles my male in every different way making my older female not fit into the picture. my male and newer female are between 5&6in long and have a lot of color on their belly. their size and everything else is almost identical(with the exception of their back coloring of course-but they both have a similarly cryptic pattern). i intend on introducing them two together now that my new female is around 97%.

kept laying infertiles, I was getting quite frustrated as she's in with two males.

** But , this season she has given me 5 nice FERTILE eggs that are incubating, first 2 due to hatch in July!

Anyway my point is she was with them about 1 year (before laying fertiles)

So as I was told by EVERYONE, be patient, it will happen
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what do they look like, i mean do they have the same amount of black in their mouth, what are the colors on their belly, are they the same size and body shape? there are sublte differences that you have to compare. theres really no way to know which part of the island that your animals came from, and i think that there are natural borders that seperate different strains of the species or subspecies. im not really positive myself until i find a male that really matches up with my older female. i have a bunch of pics but their in my cam still. ill try to post them soon. if you have pics of your mossies, like their bellies or whatever, it would be helpful.

jadrig, I'm in the same situation. I got 2.1 mossies but it's not enough. my female is regular mossy but doesn't have the bark coloration she has the green and brown pied striping. My other male is definantly a different subspecies or locale. I'll have to send you some pics. He's different in a lot of little ways. My other male is a sameiti. Hes got the bark coloration and hes my favorite leaf-tail. I'm just worrying about getting a female sameiti right now.

yeah i have female sameiti that i scooped at the end of the last local show. her spine was showin real bad and her tail was about 3mm long. she was inches from death, but now shes great, i had her for about a month and a half and her tails is almost and inch long. i definitely have one pair of the same thing, but my oldest female is the different one shes pied, a pale grayish and whitish coloration with almost no belly coloring. i mean shes one of my favorite and most docile animals, she even eats more than my henkels. i just need to find her a male if she really is different. hey where are you from?

NJ

really i grew up in bergen county near the meadowlands.

I'm also in NJ
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i was pretty excited when i found another uro keeper in raleigh. ends up he bought his henks from the place where i saw them for sale a bit over a year ago (maybe 2??). he's one of the two people from here ive had the opportunity to meet/chat with, the other being steven (geckoholic, a long-time lurker, rare poster these days).

well ill be in nj twice this summer for weddings. i used to goto the pottstown show in pa and the white plains shows all the time. what part are you from.

Cherry Hill, NJ
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i used to goto a shooting range in cherry hill. i also used to goto the poconos all the time, lake wallenpalpack sp.

i wanna move to the poconos lol
im in belleville, nj now near newark, nj

my aunts from there i grew up in garfield we killed the buccaneers!

lol they suck