Two years ago I bought two subadult animals I thought were male/female. I've housed them together (tall 20g) and gotten only one pair of eggs, quite soon after receipt. Nothing last year. I'm wondering if I don't really have two females (and one was gravid when I bought her), but I haven't bothered checking. The two eggs hatched and I got two females, which I recently put together with a male. The 1.2 group is in a large hex viv and seems to be getting along very well so far, but they've only been together for not quite a month. I'm hoping for eggs soon. Based on my limited experience with them, I'd say go ahead and try it after you get her healthy and quarantined. Make sure they have enough plants and bamboo hides to get away from each other if they want. My 1.2 group hangs out and basks together most of the time, but they can get away from each other whenever they want.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Today I just recieved my first female Phelsuma V-nigra v-nigra, and I have > two questions about this species. I've had a male v-nigra and was wondering > if after a few months in quarenteen if they could be housed together? In Sean > McKeown's book it says they should be housed seperately, but I wanted to know > if anyone has ever suscessfully housed them as pairs. Also my female looks a > little different from my male, she is a darker green, has more red in her > eyes and has a brown stripe down each of her sides. I didn't know if these > differences were all just stress related or if she may be a different > subspecies of V-nigra, or a cross of two subspecies. She suffered a lot of > stress on trip from CA to IL, and appeared dead when i first got her, I put > her under a basking light after I saw a slight movement and slowly she went > into shock, she is now doing much better and is temporaily housed in a > critter keeper (I'll be moving her in to a 20g tall in a day or two). > Hopefully she'll make a full recovery. > > Mike > > ########################################################################### > THE GLOBAL GECKO ASSOCIATION LISTSERV > WebSite: www.gekkota.com Archive: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > The GGA takes no responsibility for the contents of these postings. > ########################################################################### -- Doug Johnston
