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It's been a week since we heard from your baby jacksons.
I need a status report, ASAP!!!
Seriously, how are they doing?
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Victor Gomez
gomezvi@yahoo.com

Thanks for the concer/interest! Three weeks old yesterday and still cruisin' along! I'll take some new pics tomorrow when I get back in town.

Starting to see a bit of sexual differentiation. What I'm assuming for now are the males are growing larger diameter ocular horns. They are also a darker coloration w/whitish lateral markings on their sides. They are also larger and more robust than the females which are becoming a faint overall olive green.

I've been putting them in the sun in the early mornings when in town and they all crowd up in the sun. When I remove them (after about 40 minutes) they still stay up high immediately under the UVB bulb. I've decided on erring on keeping them a little too cool than too warm.

Misting twice daily and chowing down on crickets and fruit flies. Having these guys has been a killer experience.

Bill

>>Starting to see a bit of sexual differentiation. What I'm assuming for now are the males are growing larger diameter ocular horns. They are also a darker coloration w/whitish lateral markings on their sides. They are also larger and more robust than the females which are becoming a faint overall olive green.
It's been about 3 years since I had baby Jacksons around, but yes, you can start to see a difference in sexes at this age, though it's still too early to reliably sex them based on the occular horn pads.
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>>I've been putting them in the sun in the early mornings when in town and they all crowd up in the sun. When I remove them (after about 40 minutes) they still stay up high immediately under the UVB bulb. I've decided on erring on keeping them a little too cool than too warm.
Sweet! I would keep them a bit cooler, too. However, being that they're crowding the UVB light, maybe they want to keep a bit warmer?
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>>Misting twice daily and chowing down on crickets and fruit flies. Having these guys has been a killer experience.
Only thing that I would suggest for you at this point would be to segregate them into their own cells if at all possible. Oh, and high humidity. I kept all my (older) Jacksons outside year round in my greenhouse, along with my bonsai trees. My neighbor loved coming over to the greenhouse, says the humidity in there smelled like his native Florida.
Short of that, sounds like you're doing good. Keep us posted!
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Victor Gomez
gomezvi@yahoo.com