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Does anybody have any info on Holaspis guentheri, IE: captive care, cage requirments, breeding, longevity and what the difference between Holaspis guentheri and Holaspis laevis is?

Any info would do good.

You can find a lot of info in an article (volume 2 issue 3) wich you can download at www.podarcis.nl. You only have to register, the download is free.

I'm keeping H. laevis for several years, and they are easy and hardy animals. It's also fairly easy to breed them.

Recently a book apeared from the same author (M. Kroniger) about H. laevis. The problem is it's only available in german.

Good luck.

Thanks for the info, I was also wondering if anybody knows where I can purchase them.

Hi there:

I have kept these guys. They like a dry vivarium, preferrably a large one, so that they can glide about. I highly recommend that you use a tall vivarium. For a substrate use a layer of pebbles, topped with sandy soil. Do not mist too much. Give them plenty of places to hide in, like artificial rock dens, half-coconuts, shingles and pieces of stacked cork.
Also give them sturdy branches or rocks that have been siliconed together. They love small trees like weeping fig and fiscus, for which you may need full-spectrum lighting.
Create a basking spot of about 90 degrees farenheit, with the cooler side at about 76 degrees farenheit. A shallow water dish and light mistings are a good idea. Offer them flightless fruit flies, small crickets, wax worms and nectar. Mine bred under these conditions. The female laid two eggs, which never hatched. The adults died after about 2 years in my care. These lacertas really have personality!
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1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs
1.0 mud snake
1.0 brown Anole
1.0 Mediterranean gecko
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads
1.0 American bullfrog
1.0 South American caecilian (Dermophis occidentalis)
1.0 Spanish ribbed newt
1.0 rough-skinned newt
1.0 golden Axolotl
1.1 Eastern ribbon snakes
1.1red-cheeked mud turtles
1.0 dwarf peacock day gecko
1.0 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
1.1 rough green snakes
1.1 giant African black millipedes
1.0 White's treefrog
1.0 Okeetee corn snake
1.0 Albino African clawed frog
1.0 Kenyan sand boa
1.0 Argentine flame-bellied toadlet
1.0 African bullfrog
1.0 yellow * Everglades rat snake intergrade
1.0 Western hognose snake
1.0 fire salamander

I downloaded the referenced article and it's very informative!

Information isn't quite the same as the above poster suggesting a dry environment, but that doesn't really mean either are wrong. It would seem this lizard is pretty resilient, but based on the region they're from I would say some humidity would do more harm than good.

I'm in the process of building a vivarium for a pair of these little guys. Can't wait!

Oops! I only meant the total opposite of what I said: Humidity should do more good than harm.