some fresh borns from this morning....pic

[strophurus]

Hello, here are 3 fresh born amyaes from this sunday morning, sorry for the pic, but did it in a hurry.
the upper right animal is from my darker brownish line and the 2 at the bottom are from the orange line, but all those will show more color in the next time, they are only a few hours old now.
enjoy the picture.
regards stefan

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Ohhhh Stefan! They are very cool! Congratulations!

 

[Leopardbreeder]

Why do their tails look like that? Will they swell up after time? They are really cool.

 

[Haroldo]

Why do their tails look like that? Will they swell up after time? They are really cool.

They are called "knob tails" for a reason...

Great work with the amyae...makes me miss mine.
What other species of Nephrurus do you work with?

 

[Leopardbreeder]

I thought they had a bigger knob! Maybe I am thinking of smooth knob tails?

 

[ReptileMan27]

Awesome congrats

 

[KHGeckos]

yea... in time i'll get some kind of knob-tail. they just look awesome

 

[strophurus]

They are called "knob tails" for a reason...

Great work with the amyae...makes me miss mine.
What other species of Nephrurus do you work with?

Thanks for all the kind words and congrats.

About the species of knobtails i work with here is the list:

Nephrurus amyae
Nephrurus levis levis
Nephrurus levis pilbarensis ( het for albino )
Nephrurus wheeleri cinctus
Nephrurus stellatus

regards stefan

 

[OSUgecko]

Gorgeous babies!

 

[dprince]

Oh la LA!!! Huge congrats!!

 

[malt_geckos]

Wow! They are pretty big! How big are they?

 

[strophurus]

hello and thanks for the kind words.

they are not that big as maybe the picture looks like but they are big in compare to other geckos when they hatch.
those here are about 5 to 6 cm in total.
regards stefan

 

[Haroldo]

Thanks for all the kind words and congrats.

About the species of knobtails i work with here is the list:

Nephrurus amyae
Nephrurus levis levis
Nephrurus levis pilbarensis ( het for albino )
Nephrurus wheeleri cinctus
Nephrurus stellatus

regards stefan

Stefan,

I've worked with amyae and wheeleri cinctus in the past, but not levis pilbarensis or stellatus (I currently keep levis nominate form). Have you obtained offspring from the pilbarensis? Do you mind sharing your experiences with them and the stellatus? I've heard pilbarensis are difficult to rear, but that's just from keepers stateside...
Any info would be greatly appreciated. Best regards,
Harold

 

[strophurus]

Hello, well about the pilbarensis, i will have my first season with them next year, because i will wait until the female will be much more heavier and that will be good for the next season, starting something about march or so, after a good cooling.

about stellatus, i had some good succes with them some time ago, but the last few years they are more tricky, the keeping of them is a lot comparable to levis, also good animals will be easy to keep and also they will breed easy, but one thing i mentioned about them is that sometimes the gravid females get some shedding probs, and that mostly will kill them, i do not know much about it, but spoke with some other stellatus keepers about that problem and got the same experience from some of them.
maybe that is also the reason why are not so many are offert.
to get into those i would say ( if funds will allow it ) buy as many you can, to get some stabil groups, and if succesfull in breeding, keep a lot of them back.
also to say that some breeders of stellatus have some other experience i only give here my one.
i found them easy to keep but they must be observatet carefully.
and it is some fatastic nephrurus.
regards stefan