Monday, March 28, 2011

A few more have arrived...

But no they are not our hatchlings...
These we got four from Laura, who is also the creator of Flexi-Frame
1 is a bit older and another a bit younger with two right in the middle. 2 oranges w/a little white pinstriping, a beautiful harley, and a lavender flame. 

Here they are in order of youngest to oldest:

This is Nemo. When fired up, Orange Dalmatian. Too young to sex.


This is Tails. Lavender flame with no pores @ 7 grams.
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This is Aladdin. Halloween Harley. No pores @ almost 8 grams.

This is Raja. She's an Orange Tiger with some white Pinstriping.



We are trying to decide whether to keep them like this (as they were living with no problems before) or if we should mix this group with our other group of 3 and create tanks by age. 

Nala laid her first eggs with us on Friday. Her eggs seem to be much more longer than wide compared to the eggs of the other females. We hope to candle them this week and will let you know what we see.

All others seemed to be doing fine! We are awaiting the arrival of two terrariums we ordered on Friday night before we post pics of our current setup, which of course will change once we have hatchlings. Other than that, Gambit and Rafiki keep teasing us, burying themselves as though they are laying eggs. We'll keep you posted on that...

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Getting Started...

With all of the changes in our geckos, we figured it might be a nice to keep people up to date with the latest news on our breeders, our babies, and our eggs. Breeding geckos is not our full time job (one of us is an armored truck driver, the other a teacher) but we dedicate most of the time we are home to our pets. 


We are currently home to two hedgehogs (Oatie and Noodles), a blue tongue skink (Pumbaa), a hamster (Moose), 3 cichlids (Panda, Crabs, Jelly), a orange tabby (Milo), and 8 crested geckos. You may be thinking it probably smells like a zoo there! We try our best to make sure it doesn't... but if you have never had a hedgehog, they give a whole new meaning to poop. We also have a small sewing business (sweetteascraps.com) where we make bags for small animals. 


But onto the most important part...THE CRESTIES!
It all started in late 2009 with 2 baby geckos, followed shortly after with another 2 babies (all of which are our current breeders).... After going along steadily for quite some time living altogether, Spike had to be removed because of aggression (and poor Goliath lost his tail over it). This left Goliath and his two ladies, Gambit and Rafiki. They seemed uninterested in each other until the day after xmas 2010 we found Gambit laying eggs.


The first clutches from both females did not make it because we simply had no idea they were in there. We currently have 8 eggs incubating at a beautiful white color. We have since purchased a female from Gecko Greatness (Nala) for Spike and are hoping to find eggs literally tomorrow morning [she buried herself a little bit ago].  We also have an amazing looking Brown Flame (Phoenix) who we are super excited about and it honestly doesn't matter if it turns out to be male or female. We have two other unsexed geckos [one from Dragonslare, the other from Daniel Lito] that will hopefully all be a future breeding group.


We treat all of our animals like pets. They are all spoiled rotten. Our geckos all live in naturalistic terrariums and are feed CGD and dusted crickets. While we would love to bring out some amazing traits in the offspring, our goal is to raise healthy geckos that will make a great companion for the novice or expert. 


So there it is in a nut shell... our gecko history. We'll be sure to post more photos soon :)