Hello Cyndy,
All Phelsuma day geckos lay either a double or sometimes a single
hardshelled egg. If the egg increased in size during incubation then it was
not laid by a Phelsuma madagascariensis grandis.
Hopefully this will help narrow the proud parents to either the Platysaurus
or Lacerta.
Greg Christenson
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http://www.daygecko.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Cyndy L Linsteadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 2:53 PM
Subject: [Gecko] Fw: [CJ] New Hatchling (non-cham-related)
> I am forwarding this from the chameleon list. Maybe someone here can
> answer it.
> Cyndy
>
> A couple of months ago I took 2 double eggs out of my community
> aquaterrarium. I assumed that they were Phelsuma madagascarensis grandis
> eggs. I've had these before and they were precisely the right size,
> color
> and shape. One of the double eggs was adhesive and the other not.
> Someone
> (I think it was Don wells) said that the adhesive egg(s) would likely be
> infertile. He may have right because the adhesive egg hasn't grown any
> while the non-adhesive egg(s) got significantly larger. Well, 1/2 of
> the
> non-adhesive egg just hatched and much to my surprise, the baby looks
> nothing like a grandis and looks awfully like a Platysaurus although
> maybe
> it could be a Lacerta. ...
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