Hi Mike, This was my whole problem. It would seem the darker green one with the brown side is a v-nigra comoraegrandensis. V-nig v-nig is the beautiful shade of green with the very bright yellow belly.
Keith >From: Doug Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Gecko] Phelsuma V-nigra >Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:51:31 -0800 > >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 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
