I have had the occasional, and I mean on a handful of times, escaped dubia and they have a really really hard time establishing a colony. They are slow, especially compared to crickets, making them poor enough escapers; and on top of that they need hot humid conditions to breed properly.
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All of the traits are recessive and only one might be the same. Thus you will get albino geckos, in addition, all of the babies will be het for the rest of the parents traits (aptor and blizzard).
Unless of course you have a bell or rainwater blizzard. And then you will have normal looking...
Guidelines also state that use of an anesthetic followed by freezing is acceptable. CO2 is stated in guidelines to be an adequate anesthetic provided it is not a 'odd' organism. Providing high enough concentration level's of CO2 by keeping the animals in a airtight environment is probably the...
I would have froze it, or returned it to the store the next day. The pinkys generally will not die overnight.
The most 'humane' way of freezing probably would be to bag up the pinkys in an air tight bag until the CO2 is high enough to act as an anesthetic agent. And then freeze them.
On...
How long will the egg stay shriveled before they hatch?
In my 'cool' container, I have been trying to raise the humidity since one of the egg's was dented and not full, like it's companion. So I raised the temperature to get the humidity higher, and it filled back out. But the 'normal' egg...
If you don't have too many eggs, I incubate my TSF in my leo's enclosure. I just find a spot with the right temperature and place a 16oz deli cup filled with vermiculite in that spot, with a rock on top. No problems so far (4 babies have hatched so far). The TSM as incubated with my mealworms...
Every time I have used Spagnum Moss it has had a layer of mold over it in 24 hrs. It might be my batch or something, but I use the Zilla Beaked Moss because of this.
I use a plastic sandwich container, that is not much taller than the gecko's, (1.5") with a hole in the top.
If she's not het for anything, then there is no particular benefit to breed her to a 'recessive' male, unless of course you plan to keep the offspring and start a breeding project. Instead you would want to cross her with a 'dominant' male such as a snow, enigma, or giant.
Now if you don't...
The only reason that sex should matter, would be sex linked disorders/mutations (also known as X-linked), etc. Which usually pop up as needing to be homozygous to be deleterious. Thus, the males, having only one X chromosome always shows that gene since he is always homozygous. Thus, if you...
The best surefire way to know if they are het is a test cross. That means you breed them to a known raptor or aptor. If you get raptor/aptor babies your gecko is het. Otherwise, they are not het.
If you cross these two you might get aptors (no raptors), but you will need to breed them to...
If you know you live in a fairly 'pristine' environment, where the bugs are unlikely to have been in contact with pesticides or fertilizers, then it is not a terrible option. However, certain insects are dangerous, such as fireflies, and will kill geckos.
I feed tomato hornworms out of my...
No 'real' bites from any leo's yet (bleeding). Worse reptile bite I have had so far is a Blood Python, meanest thing I have come across, so far; he just kept striking. But I did learn the hard way that my beardies can draw blood, and it was the female, who is the calmer of the two.
Just so you know. Nutro is completely revamping their cat food sometime in next couple months to a year, they are going to try and really get a hold on the market like Science Diet. I figure they just need to pay vets to advertise for them like science diet.
But anyways, moving water is...
Over all I prefer Zoo Med, too much of Exo-terra has become the "cheap" version of the other brands. Though sometimes I think that zoo med gives out too much free stuff. I work at a pet store and they send us so much free calcium that we might as well stop selling calcium.
You might want to work on your grammar some more. It's difficult to take you seriously when the grammar reminds me of the poorly written Chinese-made auctions on e-bay.
Other than that, they look pretty nice.