Friendly temperament. The key to getting around these problems is to provide appealing egg-laying sites that can be removed from the terrarium and incubated under controlled conditions. Males can only be kept individually, only one per enclosure. Do not use a CHE or colored bulb, as these are not as effective. Collecting this beautiful gecko from the wild is prohibited, making captive-bred individuals the only ones that are legally available in the hobby. Phelsuma lineata bombetokensis. Minimum terrarium size for electric blue geckos. I do hope that my experiences and the care regimen provided in this article will prove useful to new keepers and that the beautiful electric blue gecko becomes further well established in herpetoculture. I have 4 baby possible male (showing pores) crested geckos.
Dishes, Ledges & Water Bowls. A basking area is a good idea, provided with a small bulb. Large guy with huge head structure. I do pet sitting for hamsters, ferrets, guinea pigs, bunnies, birds,... General Terms and Conditions of Sale. Since they have been regularly imported, this gecko has been in fairly common in the hobby, which has prevented it from having the same attraction to collectors that more rare phelsuma have. Ironically, one of the most challenging aspects of breeding electric blue geckos is determining their gender.
I like to set up my electric blue geckos in "bioactive" terrariums. Hatching can occur after 60 to 120 days, depending on temperature. Produced by Majestik Exotics. I mist my L. williamsi enclosures two to three times a day for approximately one minute each session. I use an inch of pea gravel covered with landscaping cloth to separate the drainage layer from the substrate layer that will be placed on top of it. They vary in coloration but it seems likely that breeding two of these geckos together produces even better looking offspring than the should be interesting to see how this trend continues. Electric blue geckos require UVB lighting for their survival. Lined Day Gecko (ssp.
Captive bred Electric blue day geckos are ready to go to a new home. Of all the reptiles I have kept and bred, I am most passionate about these little geckos. For all the latest updates, follow us: Subscribe to our Newsletter: Our commitments. Electric blue geckos have stout bodies with a short pointy snout, large feet with sticky toe pads, and a plump tapered tail. They are some of the most beautiful, behaviorally interesting, and initially challenging animals that I have worked with. Look for approximately eight scales that form a "V" before the cloaca; this "V" in females will barely be visible, and it will be flattened and level with the rest of the ventral scales. Lygodactylus williamsi are arboreal and need perches to move throughout their environment. It exhibits pronounced sexual dimorphism (meaning the sexes look different), and dominant adult males display the brilliant blue color for which this species is famous.
He is roughly 6 months old. The key is to keep your geckos in peak health from the beginning. One look at the stunning coloration of a healthy specimen is enough to know why. In the wild, Lygodactylus williamsi inhabits a very restricted habitat within a limited range. They are bound to a very limited range of forest, living on one particular species of Pandanus palm tree. She is healthy and eats good. Electrical equipment. If you keep an adult male and an adult female together, odds are they will breed and lay eggs.
As with all captive reptiles, thermal gradients are the key to success. Visit him online at. For best results, house the UVB bulbs in a reflective fixture, roughly the same length as the enclosure. We recommend Repashy Supercal NoD, lightly dusted on all feeder insects. This can be as easy and cheap as a hand mister or as complex as an automated misting system. Overall this is one of the easier day geckos to keep and breed, let me know if you need help with their care or terrarium setup, but they generally need a 20 to 30 gallon size enclosure, or larger, for a pair, and like high humidity and warm temps. Lygodactylus williamsi is a smaller species of gecko, with a total length of about 31/2 inches. I use a halogen puck light plugged into a dimmer switch, which allows me to very precisely control the amount of heat produced by the bulb in order to achieve the desired temperature. Small but beautiful Geckos, these need to be kept under full spectrum UV lighting and males must be kept singularly. 16 Jan 2015 12:00 am. Eggs left in the terrarium are also subject to the environmental conditions at the particular spot in which they were laid. Due to their limited range and low numbers in the wild, these critically endangered living jewels deserve our attention in the hobby.
It may take time and practice to find the proper misting schedule for your own enclosures. Can sell with setup 350 with setup.