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Post by XX on Apr 3, 2009 9:00:48 GMT
I saw your post and your photos of Helm pater in the section lizards, but I cannot answer and I do not understand why I do not manage to join on the forum... Can the administratreur help me???
I have access to this part of the forum and that is why I answer you here:
Your lizard is very beautiful, but your installations interest me even more. Could put it yourselves detailed photos? I have the impression that you bury limp which are of use as shelter to your lizards. For what depth are they? Do your animals always use them either do they dig they same dens ?
What height make your enclosures and are they covered to prevent the predators from entering it? Reach you to controler if your animals feed correctly? To see if they live without problem? Make you eggs brood either leave you the spot heavyweights(layings,eggs)?
It makes many questions but your installations seem very well conceived and really interesting, and I think that there would have good teachings to be pulled of your method.
Thank you in advance and cordially,
Nico
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Post by mark68 on Apr 6, 2009 7:42:41 GMT
Hi Nico
I am sorry to hear you are having problems getting on the forum. I will try to answer your questions. The enclosures are made from sheet metal buried in the ground. I use sheets that have a height of 1m or 1.1m About 70cm is left exposed above ground. The mesh is there mainly to stop birds getting in. I don't know what "limp" is, but I use insulation board to make boxes which are buried into the ground for shelters. This about 30cm deep. They are usually used by the animals but I put dead leaves in the enclosures in the winter to provide more insulation. The enclosures ahave a lid in the bottom right hand corner that can be opened. Underneath this there is a food dish and water dish. So I don't need to enter the enclosure or remove the lids to provide food and water.
There is also an area in each enclosure with a mix of sand, soil and coir. This is kept damp all the time, while the rest of the enclosure is left dry and the soil is hard. So the lizards usually lay there eggs there. The Timon often lay in the hide box where it is cooler ! I normally try to find the eggs, but last year I had some Aussie water dragons, Lacerta trilineata and Tortoises that I found in the enclosures that hatched naturally !
To be honest my enclosures are designed to produce lizards not to be especially attractive. They are not as beautiful as your enclosures.
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Post by XX on Apr 6, 2009 13:04:57 GMT
Hello Mark, My problems to connect me on the forum are certainly due to my gaps in computing and to my ignorance of the English language... In any case thank you for your answers which are very interesting. My installations are aesthetic because I have a wife who watches that I did not make anything ! And then, I do not raise many lizards, and I make it only by pleasure. I sell no lizard but I give it frequently... Lizards of genus Lacerta (andTimon) are my favourite reptiles, and it has been more than forty years since I observe them (I am not any more a young man). I also like little iguanidés of North America (Dipsosaurus, Sceloporus, Gambelia, Holbrookia ...) By " limp ", I meant box... Your installations are very well conceived and I would have had a lot of pleasure to speak about it more for a long time with you. I would like to ask you for two things : - naturally, I shall not ask you for your personal address and phone number, but know you french breeders of reptiles (only initials and region...) If we had a common knowledge, I would agree so that he communicates you my personal address so that we can exchange more for a long time our ideas... - Sell you, on the occasion of stock exchanges (Barcelona for example) your reproductions? If it was the case, I would possibly be interestesd by Timon pater or Lacerta trilineata (according to the subspecies which you raise) Cordially, Nico And to finish, some photos of the construction of another enclosure...      |
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Post by mark68 on Apr 6, 2009 18:29:08 GMT
Hi again Nico
your new enclosure is both very clever and again beautiful.
I don't know ANY french breeders or keepers of reptiles except yourself. What I will do is send you a personal message on this forum with my e-mail address, I think that is a good start. Your English is certainly better than my french !
i should have Timon pater, and Lacerta trilineata (ssp major and polylepidota ) young this year. I might go to the reptile show in Barcelona this year, but it is a very long journey for me from where I am.
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Post by mark68 on Apr 6, 2009 18:37:44 GMT
Ok, I have just sent a personal message to you on this forum. If you can't read it let me know here and I will try something else
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Post by XX on Apr 6, 2009 19:46:09 GMT
I did not receive your message, but I found an e-mail address. If this address is still valid, you receive the message which I sent you.
Nico
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morbid
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Post by morbid on Apr 21, 2009 7:46:41 GMT
Nico:
That enclousure is really great! It looks nice, and seems to work fine.
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Post by XXX on Apr 26, 2009 14:10:29 GMT
Morbid, Thank you for the compliment! Here are photos, dating some days, my Sceloporus jarrovii, which later a long hibernation, are again active... Nico    |
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