Where can I buy a CB Henkles leaf tail?

[UPthePunks]

I'm not going to be ready for a while...But I would love it if someone could point me in the right direction here.I don't deal with WC.Not only do i not agree with it. But Ive dealt with WC reptiles before and had many many problems. If there's a breeder on here or someone that knows someone etc...It would be great. Ive only been dealing with monitors and gargoyles for the past couple years. So i don't know anyone who breeds these amazing creatures.

 

[Amped Herptiles]

Within the last few years U. henkeli has not been breed in captivity or seen in collections as much. But there are still some breeders out there producing healthy specimens. Because of the low availability in the hobby you should look to spend several hundred dollars on a true CB pair. I know a few people that are breeding them including Derek Dunlop at http://www.ddreptiles.net/index.html. You will occasionally see specimens on kingsnake.com. But you may have better luck with finding them in Europe as Uroplatus geckos are breed there more often. So I would just look online to see who sells them over there.

 

[UPthePunks]

Why are there no people breeding them anymore? I thought that they were very easy to take care of and breed.

 

[UPthePunks]

It seems that cb leaf tail's are hard to find in general. Most that i see on kingsnake are wild caught.

 

[T-ReXx]

It seems that cb leaf tail's are hard to find in general. Most that i see on kingsnake are wild caught.

There are several reasons behind this. One is that Leaf tails aren't particularly easy to keep or breed, they're not tolerant of mistakes generally, and the majority of people who are breeding them are specialists. Another is the fact that they don't produce large amounts of offspring compared to more easily kept geckos like cresteds, leopards, and gargoyles, and hatching eggs can be tricky. The few dedicated people who are breeding them in the US prefer mostly to trade offspring with other breeders to diversify bloodlines as opposed to just selling them. Wild caughts are tricky to acclimate and usually slow to start breeding, and with the cheap prices on imports most major reptile breeders don't consider them investment quality species. Henkeli is by far the easiest species to keep(though corkbarks from what I gather are pretty hardy as well) and aren't regularly imported, so finding stock can be difficult. Space requirements for the larger species is another limiting factor, most require rather large, naturalistic setups, and don't fair or breed that well usually in the "bare bones" setups favored by most large scale gecko breeders. Personally I would like to see more people breeding Uroplatus in the US, captive bred animals are far superior to imports as far and hardiness goes and Madagascar won't allow exportation of them forever.

 

[Tony C]

Zach Brinks works with quite a few leaftails, he may have what you want or at least know who to talk to.

 

[UPthePunks]

Awesome.Thank you very much,ill have to continue my research but ill shoot Zack an email and maybe he can help me out.