RAZERWIREREPTILES
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Hello again ummm just a few points to touch as far as the mating call its LOUD
crazy loud it last for about I would say maybe 30-45sec at the longest and my huge male does it at least 1 a week sometime more often but its ALWAYS right after i fall asleep lol and as far as feeding goes i kept mine on nothing but crickets for the first few months but i found they would not gain that much weight so after some digging on the net i found a possible way to "train" them and i use this lightly. What i found too work i have a solid black bowl filled with about 15 grams of meal worms but i put it in a place i have seen my tokays "in a corner on the floor" and i just did not offer crickets for about a week and they seemed to get the point that the meal worms in the bowl were food after making the change to meal worms i offer roughly 15-20 grams twice a week and most are normally gone by the next morning i don't want to offer more because i don't want them to become fat because i know if the male becomes fat he tends not to really care about mating this is just what i have seen and learned myself when i first got them you could ezly tell the male from the females with in the cage because of his size about 95 grams with the females being about 40-45 and now there are a few that are almost the exact size of the male they really put the weight on after i moved from crickets they also get cricket from time to time. Another little trick to keep in mind if you ever plan to mate yours a good way to kinda push it along is to offer alot of food right after a man made storm lol to do this i tend to almost soak the cage i affix 1/4 tubbing use a thumbtack and punch ALOT of holes in the tubbing all up and down it everywhere on the tubbing then affix it to a container like a gallon jug and just let the water kinda rain out of the tubbing looks natural if done right but norm after i make food abundant and let it storm my male tends to do his mating call that night. now as far as the heating goes be careful as to what you choose like i said it only take me 50watts from two bulbs to maintain 85-89 and high humidity i think you might be a little high with the 100watt bulb but give it a shot and set up your tank and let it stabilize before adding your new Tokay. now as far as hoping to get a health one from a pet store good luck i have not seen any pet store with healthy tokays they tend not to care very good for them IMO. another good word of advice is dont be afraid of him/her if you ever want to be able to hold the tokay you will need lots of time and patience "i used a glove at first" but let the tokays get used to your hand inside the tank and with time get closer and closer you will soon learn the 2 types of bite they have the first is more of a bark/snip nothing to worrie just be steady lol its like there first and sometime last warning lol the other type really sucks even if you have gloves on it the clamping bite this one hurts no matter what lol my male got me one time when i had a glove on and would not let go for almost 10min when he did let go i took off the glove to find a bad almost deep blue ring on my thumb .......... dont give up though one of the best people i have seen with his tokays is "i forgot his name sry" but he works for NERD and i have seen him handle all his tokays like they were leopards none even tried to run off with given the option..... well its late here and i have rambled sry hope you got something useful out of this feel free to hit me up anytime if you have any questions [email protected] good night all...
Razerwirereptiles
crazy loud it last for about I would say maybe 30-45sec at the longest and my huge male does it at least 1 a week sometime more often but its ALWAYS right after i fall asleep lol and as far as feeding goes i kept mine on nothing but crickets for the first few months but i found they would not gain that much weight so after some digging on the net i found a possible way to "train" them and i use this lightly. What i found too work i have a solid black bowl filled with about 15 grams of meal worms but i put it in a place i have seen my tokays "in a corner on the floor" and i just did not offer crickets for about a week and they seemed to get the point that the meal worms in the bowl were food after making the change to meal worms i offer roughly 15-20 grams twice a week and most are normally gone by the next morning i don't want to offer more because i don't want them to become fat because i know if the male becomes fat he tends not to really care about mating this is just what i have seen and learned myself when i first got them you could ezly tell the male from the females with in the cage because of his size about 95 grams with the females being about 40-45 and now there are a few that are almost the exact size of the male they really put the weight on after i moved from crickets they also get cricket from time to time. Another little trick to keep in mind if you ever plan to mate yours a good way to kinda push it along is to offer alot of food right after a man made storm lol to do this i tend to almost soak the cage i affix 1/4 tubbing use a thumbtack and punch ALOT of holes in the tubbing all up and down it everywhere on the tubbing then affix it to a container like a gallon jug and just let the water kinda rain out of the tubbing looks natural if done right but norm after i make food abundant and let it storm my male tends to do his mating call that night. now as far as the heating goes be careful as to what you choose like i said it only take me 50watts from two bulbs to maintain 85-89 and high humidity i think you might be a little high with the 100watt bulb but give it a shot and set up your tank and let it stabilize before adding your new Tokay. now as far as hoping to get a health one from a pet store good luck i have not seen any pet store with healthy tokays they tend not to care very good for them IMO. another good word of advice is dont be afraid of him/her if you ever want to be able to hold the tokay you will need lots of time and patience "i used a glove at first" but let the tokays get used to your hand inside the tank and with time get closer and closer you will soon learn the 2 types of bite they have the first is more of a bark/snip nothing to worrie just be steady lol its like there first and sometime last warning lol the other type really sucks even if you have gloves on it the clamping bite this one hurts no matter what lol my male got me one time when i had a glove on and would not let go for almost 10min when he did let go i took off the glove to find a bad almost deep blue ring on my thumb .......... dont give up though one of the best people i have seen with his tokays is "i forgot his name sry" but he works for NERD and i have seen him handle all his tokays like they were leopards none even tried to run off with given the option..... well its late here and i have rambled sry hope you got something useful out of this feel free to hit me up anytime if you have any questions [email protected] good night all...
Razerwirereptiles
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