Greg Watkins-Colwell wrote:
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> 2 Pachydactylus tigrinis hatchlings found in the cage with the adults. I've pulled
> them out and set them up in individual cages and they are both eating small
> crickets and fruit flies.
>
When I had tigers a few years back, (started with 3.6), I removed the eggs for the
first while. Then I realized I had an incubator stacked to the roof with tiger
eggs.... and still more eggs kept turning up in the tank substrate. When I ran out of
room for hatchlings, I left the eggs in the tank. I'll swear that 100% hatched, and
not one was eaten. The geckos seem to be communal, or groupies, in that there will be
groups of them piled into a cave during the day. Looks for all the world like a pile
of spotted brown coats dumped on the floor. The geckos were in a 50 gallon tank, with
caves and hiding spots all over, but they all piled into 3 caves. Must be safety in
numbers? Adults, juveniles and babies, all just hanging on cave walls or piled on top
of each other. They, and the G. smithii are the only geckos I've had that are
communal to at least some degree.
Does anyone else think P. tigrinus are hatched pregnant? They seem to be the Tribbles
of the gecko world. (Star Trek fans will understand :)
> also... 1 Lepidodactylus lugubris hatched. and guess what? It's a female! ;-)
Heeheeee.
I had a Garnoti escape late last summer. She's spent almost a year laying eggs all
over the basement. Something tells me, I'm not going to be able to round them all up.
The more geckos I catch, the more eggs I find. Any other species would have been
laying infertile eggs by now. Lesson learned: Don't let a parthenogenic gecko escape!
Hilde
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