Few more geckos

[halfwaynowhere]

lol. Princess Peach is a cute name, and it suits her well! She's gorgeous!

 

[Talkenlate04]

lol. Princess Peach is a cute name, and it suits her well! She's gorgeous!

Speaking of the princess she just crawled into her egg laying container.
She had been paired with a solid red patternless male before she came to me and she is fairly heavy so maybe maybe!

 

[Hamburglar]

I hope you don't mind the question. I am in the middle of a big rehousing project right now so I don't have time to search. How hot do you have to keep them normally?

 

[Talkenlate04]

I have mine in the mid 70s. I don't know nearly all there is to know yet but everything I have read and been told says keep them in the low mid 70s day and a night time drop to the low 70s and upper 60s is ok. So I just let the temps in the apt rise and fall like they would normally. I think that is why I am liking them so much no extra heat needed!
All my little ones are shedding just fine so I think things are going well

 

[Hamburglar]

Awesome, that's what I like to hear. Maybe at some point I can pick a couple up, but I am up to my eyeballs in spiders right now. Good luck with your projects.....

 

[Talkenlate04]

Awesome, that's what I like to hear. Maybe at some point I can pick a couple up, but I am up to my eyeballs in spiders right now. Good luck with your projects.....

Yep I know how that goes. I am making major cuts with the spiders in my collection. Over 1/2 is gone already and the remaining 1/2 I am still thinking about but I think I like the direction I am taking. I will still breed some T's every now and then but this might be my new venture for a few years.

 

[halfwaynowhere]

Speaking of the princess she just crawled into her egg laying container.
She had been paired with a solid red patternless male before she came to me and she is fairly heavy so maybe maybe!

ooh. sounds like there might be some pretty babies on their way, then! Congrats in advance, lol.

I can't wait to start getting into these guys myself.

 

[Endagr8]

Yep I know how that goes. I am making major cuts with the spiders in my collection. Over 1/2 is gone already and the remaining 1/2 I am still thinking about but I think I like the direction I am taking. I will still breed some T's every now and then but this might be my new venture for a few years.

WHAT?!? Talkenlate04 leaving the hobby?

If you ever want to give some Ts away, I'd be happy to take a few. I'll even pay the shipping.

 

[Talkenlate04]

I am not leaving, leaving I am just becoming more focused. Instead of breeding anything and everything I am going to only selectively breed things that I like. It can get a little dull doing the same thing over and over again even if it is a different species being worked on so this among some of my other hobbies will balance some of that out for me so I stay excited about the hobby. I doubt I will ever leave the hobby but for now I am curious to see what I can do with these guys.

 

[Boanerges]

I am not leaving, leaving I am just becoming more focused. Instead of breeding anything and everything I am going to only selectively breed things that I like. It can get a little dull doing the same thing over and over again even if it is a different species being worked on so this among some of my other hobbies will balance some of that out for me so I stay excited about the hobby. I doubt I will ever leave the hobby but for now I am curious to see what I can do with these guys.

I know exactly what you mean. I have been getting the T's I really like and those are the only ones I am going to work with. I have all the ones I like minus a few. I also have some ball pythons that I like and in a couple weeks I will be getting some leopard geckos to throw in the mix. I too get bored very easy dealing with the same thing all the time. If I have a few different things going on (instead of one huge project) it keeps things more interesting and exciting for me. The crappy part is I'll be spending like $1,000 on 6 leopard geckos. That's not many leo's but it is a start and they are one's I really like. I need cheaper hobbies

 

[Talkenlate04]

All my setups are kinda like this only I stopped wasting money on the fake vine and started using things that are in my backyard.

 

[JoeRossi]

Set up....

Your set up looks good Ryan. Again, just a sugestion that you may want to use a tall feeding bowl to feed the geckos their crickets, CG diet, or what ever your using if there is not one in there already. This will decrease the chances of substrate impaction greatly.

Joe

 

[Talkenlate04]

There already is a double bowl magnet feeding ledge up there on the left and when I feed them roaches I put a bowl in there overnight and they are gone by morning and I take it back out.

I will have more pics of my setups here in a bit once I get the room arranged. I have been using awesome pieces of wood with chunks of moss from outside and the tanks are turning out much better.

 

[Talkenlate04]

One I just finished.

 

[Talkenlate04]

I like this gal

 

[JoeRossi]

Roaches VS Crickets

Indeed...there is the difference, the "roaches". The crickets would jump out of that shallow feeder and onto the substrate, but the roaches don't climb. I fed my cresteds roaches long ago; however, I found that they started not wanting them any longer and the calcium dusitng seemed to stick thicker on the crickets. Preferance thing I guess for my little ones, they just quit eating the roaches.

 

[Talkenlate04]

Indeed...there is the difference, the "roaches". The crickets would jump out of that shallow feeder and onto the substrate, but the roaches don't climb. I fed my cresteds roaches long ago; however, I found that they started not wanting them any longer and the calcium dusitng seemed to stick thicker on the crickets. Preferance thing I guess for my little ones, they just quit eating the roaches.

Who asked if there was a difference?
Maybe I missed where that was posted.:?
(going back to re read thread)

So far all of mine (all sizes) are taking down their fill of roaches without issue.

 

[Talkenlate04]

Few more tanks.

One with lady peach(first photo) and her mate mario (bottom right in the second photo).

 

[GartenSpinnen]

Nice! Your pair looks kinda like mine! Where did you get those setups at? Are they inexpensive? They look really nice.

What are the tubberware boxes with the top cut out for? Crickets?

 

[Talkenlate04]

What are the tubberware boxes with the top cut out for? Crickets?

Those are in there for the females so they can lay their eggs in it.
Ehh the tanks are not that cheap. They are costing me $55 each but I like them.

Caught one taking off its skin tonight.