hera and her friend

[Heraskeeper]

This is Hera, a high yellow giant size, of 2 years

and this is her friend (haven't named him yet) hes a year old Patternless Tremper Albino Mack Snow.

if only introduced them to each other a few times but immediately he wants to try n mate with her. as eager as he may be i don't think she is impressed by his size and seems to be extremely adjitated with his efforts. the last time i was removing her she was so flustered she didn't even want me to touch her, and even made a few attempts to bite me.

 

[LadyGecko]

Hi HerasKeeper and Welcome to GF's !!

They are beautiful geckos!
:main_thumbsup:
Sandy

 

[Bodon]

Yes, great looking leos! And welcome!

 

[HillDog]

Wow, lol, I love them!! Really Nice!!

 

[syntheticreality]

they are very nice, the albino patternless looks younger than a year because he still has those spots all over him

 

[Ccrashca069]

Very nice. Welcome to GF.

 

[Heraskeeper]

Yeah i love his morph, i was just walking through the pet store to see what they had in stock, not intending to take anything home. but once i saw him that they were selling him for only 25$ i had to buy him. its obvious they had no clue as to exact morph because they wouldnt have had him in the same cage and selling him at the same price as the normal and high yellow ones.
I hope one day to have a large colony, but in the mean time i'm still searching for a bigger tank. i have a home made incubator set up and ready to go once he gets bigger. i know many people breed them to sell them but if i have the space i plan on keeping most of them. I find its far easier to breed mice than crickets (and they don't prefer the frozen pinkies either).
Id be interested to see what some of the other breeders around here do and any tricks of the trade so to speak.

 

[Kelentari]

Hello, your two leos are lovely!

I'm curious about your mice vs. cricket breeding comment: Do you mean their staple diet is live pinkies?

 

[Heraskeeper]

No, in fact its been about 6 months since i last breed mice for her to eat. She absolutely loved being feed live pinkies( she could eat 3 in one sitting and still ahve an apetite for 2 more the next day). i didnt mind breeding them for either except for the smell and the ocasionaly escapee (i have 2 cats so they don't get far hehe) because i've done it when i had a boa constrictor. for the 3 years i had him he ate nothing except what i bred for him to eat. Its cheaper and more of a personal preference of mine to go through the task of breeding my own mice from time to time, my only wish is to have a snake again to take care of any left over mice.

The staple diet consists mostly of meal worms and crickets. Ive gone through breeding crickets in the past but have resorted to buying the store raised crickets. once in a shile ill indulge them with a couple wax wors here n there. I never considered breeding crickets until i noticed one of the females laying eggs in a plant i had added to the leo tank. i relocated it to a spare tank i had and sure enough lots of little micro-scopic crickets were hopping around after a month or so. The only down sides are 1) the sounds of male crickets chirping all the freaking time. 2) there can be no mold in the cricket colony. once mold appears it can be harmful to the gecko when digesting the crickets. not to mention the food supply for mice is relatively cheap at any bulk store. whereas crickets need sutible food supplies like oranges or potatoes or wheat(if u give them this u need to supply the blue jelly water stuff). i've seen video of people who breed them in china useing short garbage can like containers housing hundreds of crickets. but to keep a constant supply of healthy apropriatly sized crickets is somthing id rather leave to the pros.

i do plan on breeding mice on a regualar basis once i've relocated both of my geckos to an apropriate sized cage i can re-use there current cages to set up mice breeding groups.

 

[Kelentari]

Ah, I see. I actually have been toying with the idea of breeding crickets. I have about 100 adults in a rubbermaid tub atm and was thinking about putting a little tub of moist dirt in with them for a week and then remove it and see what happens. I've read that females will lay eggs in the dirt. Thanks for the tip about mold--I'll be sure to check for that.

 

[Halley]

Welcome!!

 

[Heraskeeper]

Ah, I see. I actually have been toying with the idea of breeding crickets. I have about 100 adults in a rubbermaid tub atm and was thinking about putting a little tub of moist dirt in with them for a week and then remove it and see what happens. I've read that females will lay eggs in the dirt. Thanks for the tip about mold--I'll be sure to check for that.

thats the way id do it, at least with the rubber maid tub u know that they wont escape so easily. just make sure u remove the egg container before they hatch or the babies will be eaten.

 

[brad.a.c]

Very nice looking Leos!

 

[efx*]

Sweet Geckos!!!

 

[Heraskeeper]

funny story about hera (the bigger one). She actually managed to escape once, and was lose for nearly 24 hours. i had 3 cats in my house at the time so i was prepared for the worst. Found her the next day sitting in the middle of the bathroom floor totally unharmed. Its a miracle considering i discovered paw prints from one of the cats in the cage. Which leads me to believe that's how the lid was opened in the first place.