thanks daniel! helped out quite a bit. i have two more eggs cooking right now but one is probably infertile. i'll let you know of any new happenings.
nathan
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>Subject: Re: [Gecko] cyrtopodion scaber baby:)
>Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:26:11 EDT
>
>I keep "these." I ordered 1.2 of them, .1 is something different, something
>I'm not quite sure of. The other 1.1 was indeed C. scaber and an egg was
>laid in about 2 weeks upon arrival. Unfortunatly, it was imfertile. Maybe 3
>weeks later, the female kicked things up a bit and 2 clutches of SINGLE eggs
>were laid with in 2 WEEKS! When the third week rolled round, she was gravid
>with 2 eggs, and subsequently suffered from egg binding and died. I was
>unable to pothsumously remove the eggs.
>
>These seem to be quite productive deserticulous geckoes, the first of mine
>should be hatching soon, but I know little about the incubation data of the
>species. I keep the eggs on top of dry sand at 83F and in the same incubator
>as my Eublepharids and their incubation parameters are to provide desert eggs
>with enough water.
>
>I'm really not to sure how this genus/species fits into gekkonid evolution
>and exactly what it is realated too, but I find it easy to compare them with
>most geckoes from that area (Arabia...) such as Hemidactylus, Tropiocolotes,
>maybe a touch of Stenodactylus in habits, and so reproductively, these could
>be a "feed'm to breed'm" type of gecko or an animal requireing or benefiting
>from a few weeks of hibernation.
>
>I keep mine hot and dry. 10 gallon, sand, stacked rocks with vertical and
>horizontal crevices, 105-110F basking spot, weekly misting, frequent feeding
>easy on the supplementation. Currently, I have no plants, but I'm picking a
>few plants up in the weeks to come.
>
>I think I touched upon all your questions.
>
>--Daniel
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