At 08:34 AM 12/11/00 -0800, Catriona Lindsay wrote:
> We performed out first two visits last week. At one of the stores
> I saw
>some geckos listed as dwarf frog eye geckos. I assume they are
>Stenodactylus sp. They were in with another type of gecko (I forget what)
>and I recommended keeping only one type (species) of reptile together in a
>cage.
> Anyway these little guys looked nice and fat and I was wondering how
>difficult they were to acclimate.
I've found them to be kind of a hard split. If they start off well, they
do great; if they start out seeming kind of stressed and delicate, they
crash in spite of all efforts to save them. The difference may have more
to do with species than individuals---my "type II" group
(<http://people.qualcomm.com/ntenny/name-that-gecko/>) might be two
different species of which one thrives and one doesn't. All of my crashes
have been in that group.
> I was also wondering how much these guys
>normally cost, so I know if what they are asking is reasonable (I don't get
>a discount at this store :<).
I've seen prices all over the map for different _Stenodactylus_
sp. Probably safest to assume that no retail price is reasonable. :-)
> They kind of looked like the picture of S.
>sthenodacylus on the GGA site, but I know that their color can vary, so
>they may be S. petri. Is there a simple way to figure out what they are?
Apparently not. If you find one, tell me. I can forward the posts I saved
from the _Stenodactylus_ thread; several people very kindly suggested
possible IDs for my geckos and gave some information about the various
species, but there seems to be no grand unified source that would resolve
these matters unambiguously with reasonable effort.
NT
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