Re: [gecko]debugging local moss for vivaria

[Julie Bergman]

LOL! I am always getting calls and e-mails from folks who find these guys, mostly in furniture import shipments. I have a care sheet called "The General Care and Maintenance of Small Stowaway Tropical Geckos." It is designed to get them by until they get an id. Let me know if anyone wants it! Julie B. B.A.Erlebacher wrote: From: Neil Meister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:28:54 -0500 Good to hear the skink is living! Yeah! We get stowaways coming into Halifax on container ships from Cuba. Unless its quite warm they're often in hard shape. Here in Toronto, brown anoles sometimes show up in shipments of tropical plants from Florida. Often they are little guys that hatch after the plant is already in somebody's office or apartment. The plants are shipped fairly warm, and the anoles can take cooler temps. I talked to a guy who works at the food terminal (where all the produce comes into the city) who said they often find lizards, snakes, frogs and large invertebrates in shipments from tropical countries. Unfortunately, after a trip in a refrigerated hold, few have survived. I gave him my phone number in case he finds any survivors, but never heard from him, alas. IIRC, somebody on this list once found a healthy hatchling tokay in some bamboo furniture at Pier One, and I saw the web page once of a woman who found a little Tarentola inside a roll of paper from Portugal at a printers' shop in Denmark. _______________________________________________ Global Gecko Association http://www.gekkota.com Classifieds http://www.gekkota.com/cgi-gekkota/classifieds.cgi gecko mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gekkota.com/mailman/listinfo/gecko