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PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:16 pm    Post subject: nesting box Reply with quote

do u put a nesting box in for chewies as i have read they lay on plants and bark??
thanks matt
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Edit: Just looked back and realised it's not Cresties Laughing Embarassed But hey, I'll leave it there, just make sure you know it's a different lizard!


I did put a nesting box in mine, but my female just ignored it (except for when she wanted to eat the soil stuff Laughing ), she then laid 3 clutches, all burried in the bark, and all underneath something (kitchen roll tubes twice, and her water bowl).

However, that's just what happened in my sircumstances, other people use nesting boxes which the female uses. I suppose it's down to the lizard maybe.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:00 pm    Post subject: Re: nesting box Reply with quote

watts501 wrote:
do u put a nesting box in for chewies as i have read they lay on plants and bark??
thanks matt


From what I have read they don't use them. I think I will try without for my pair and just wait and see if anything happens. (Sorry for not answering your PM.... Embarassed )
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:48 pm    Post subject: Re: nesting box Reply with quote

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watts501 wrote:
do u put a nesting box in for chewies as i have read they lay on plants and bark??
thanks matt


From what I have read they don't use them. I think I will try without for my pair and just wait and see if anything happens. (Sorry for not answering your PM.... Embarassed )


that is ok!! just means i will have to keep an eye out for eggs!! how are urs doing?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I keep mine on newspaper and provide a nest box of damp peat, which they use everytime. They don't seem to bury them and they are stuck together unlike cresteds.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scott W wrote:
I keep mine on newspaper and provide a nest box of damp peat, which they use everytime. They don't seem to bury them and they are stuck together unlike cresteds.


cheers scott! what medium do u incubator them on and temps?? thanks matt Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

vermiculite, at room temp which is around 21.5c.

I haven't had great hatch rates with them so far.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scott W wrote:
vermiculite, at room temp which is around 21.5c.

I haven't had great hatch rates with them so far.

can i ask how many u have?? do u keep the vermiculite the same as leos?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I only have one pair of adult Mossys now, I'm an idiot I sold off three pairs for almost nothing Sad and only kept this pair because the male lost it's tail (which has since grown back fine although a different colour)

I tried to buy some more from Allen Repashy while I was over there but he had only a few spare and was quoting $1000 a pair!

I do have 3 unsexed young but am not planning on keeping those.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scott W wrote:
I only have one pair of adult Mossys now, I'm an idiot I sold off three pairs for almost nothing Sad and only kept this pair because the male lost it's tail (which has since grown back fine although a different colour)

I tried to buy some more from Allen Repashy while I was over there but he had only a few spare and was quoting $1000 a pair!

I do have 3 unsexed young but am not planning on keeping those.


that is alot! how much are u looking for the unsexed ones? i have two well-grown on males at the mo! both around 36grams, i really do like this specices of rhacs!
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