I haven't had much time for posting lately, so I thought I'd summarize what's been happening with my Uroplatus projects:
The mysterious Vitamin E deficiency in some of my cb U. phantasticus seems to have cleared up with
some extra oral supplementing and switching to Herp Nutrition products.
I haven't found a smoking gun, but cricket diet, too much moss coverage over substrate
and a diet limited to crickets and isopods by winter availability are all suspect.
We had a cold spring/summer until June, great for the montane species, but seems to have
delayed others a bit. Over last 2 months, I've had good-looking eggs laid by U. henkeli,
U. lineatus, U. guentheri, U. phantasticus and spiny Uroplatus.
I also found one lone U. s. sikorae egg which has since hatched. I haven't yet figured out
what triggers consistent breeding with this species. They are easy to incubate and raise,
if you can get good eggs! Same goes for the spiny Uros. I suspect they may need a larger
temperature variation than I've been providing. I put a small halogen spotlight on
one group to see what will happen. It doesn't seem to bother them at least.
My female U. ebenaui has stopped breeding after the loss of my old male. I have several others,
including F1 groups, that have yet to produce fertile eggs.
That's about it, hopefully I'll see some interesting hatchlings this summer!
Neil
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