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Post by mark68 on Aug 25, 2009 19:31:57 GMT
you don't need to own your own website. You can upload them onto photobucket or similar websites.
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Post by mark68 on Aug 25, 2009 9:31:49 GMT
I keep muralis and have kept sicula. I couldn't agree more with the advice given here so far. Your care seems very good but get them outside if you can ! There will be no need to replace the UV tube next year, they will get some wild food and they will need no expensive electricity to heat them.
By the way you DON'T need heat mats for this species, in fact it will do more harm than good. I suggest you permanently unplug them. Any shop that told you you needed them either are ignorant about reptiles or are ripping you off.
If you send me the pics I can identify them for you. MY e-mail address is Lacerta@sapo.pt
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Post by mark68 on May 4, 2009 16:49:04 GMT
I will almost certainly have spare exigua in the late summer. Poss some adults plus young.
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Post by mark68 on May 3, 2009 6:40:38 GMT
lizards now sold ...
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Post by mark68 on Apr 20, 2009 18:59:33 GMT
Italian wall lizard pair for sale. CB08 . They have been mating in the last couple of weeks and eggs are expected soon !
£70 for the Pair. Collection please from South East London
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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 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 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 mark68 on Apr 2, 2009 19:23:40 GMT
I caught him to move him to a new viv in the middle of the afternoon when he was nicely warmed up ! He has probably only been handled 3 or 4 times in his life. So he is pretty wild.
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Post by mark68 on Apr 2, 2009 7:07:50 GMT
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Post by mark68 on Mar 12, 2009 19:45:01 GMT
I forgot to say I thought lepidus were illegal to keep in France ? They are in Portugal so I cannot keep them.
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Post by mark68 on Mar 12, 2009 19:43:18 GMT
Hello Mark, I understood your answer for T.tangitanus... In winter, in my region, the temperatures can fall at certain nights (but rarely) in - 5 /-6°C but the day if the sun shines, they can go back up(raise ?) rather high. For example on December 23rd, my Sceloporus jarrovii, in one of the aluminum glazed enclosures, were active. The temperature in the enclosure was of 21°C at 13h00. In my garden, I have for several years, palm trees Butia capitata, Agaves américana, Opuntias ficus-indica and Opuntias basilaris brought back by New Mexico who grow in full ground, unprotected wintry. I keep during of numerous years in my glazed aluminum enclosures T.lepidus. The winter they took shielded from the cold with dens which they dug. I stopped because they became again wild and very territorial. In the slightest alert they took refuge in their den. I never saw them, I could not get back the young people who were eaten by the parents. With the experience, I am convinced that big enclosures are not good to manage (correctly ?) and reproduce this very wild sort. Now I raise this sort in my small wooden enclosures and I am totally satisfied by the result. Sorry i haven't taken any pictures of my pater or tangitanus yet but I will soon, and post them here. I keep mine in enclosures a little larger 3 metres x 3 metres, or 3m x2 m, while babies are raised in enclosures 2m x2m I am in central Portugal where we have frosts down to -7c. We have alot of clear blue skies in winter so the temperature often is around 12c in the day dropping to -2c at night. We also have Opuntia ficus-indica which fruit well as well as Agave americana. I keep my Timon outdoors all winter with no glass or plastic cover. But I make sure they can get underground away from the frosts. I cover the hide box with dead fern leaves (bracken). The hide box is designed so it does not get wet, but just stays damp. They hibernate there with Laudakia stellio brachydactyla and similiar species. Both species breed well too ! Timon pater and tangitanus seem to need the same conditions as lepidus. I can't see any differences in how I keep them.
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Post by mark68 on Mar 11, 2009 11:14:02 GMT
Nico, sorry for the confusion. I keep both T.pater and T.tangitanus. I think your animals ARE tangitanus.
Tangitanus have the brown colour in the tail and back legs and Pater are green in the back legs and tail.
How cold is it at night in the winter where you are ?
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Post by mark68 on Mar 10, 2009 18:04:55 GMT
That is one way I think you can tell them apart from Timon pater. I keep them too, they have green back legs and tails. Nico, what part of France are you in ?
I will try to take some pics of both species.
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Post by mark68 on Mar 10, 2009 6:41:22 GMT
VERY nice enclosures. Lovely pics too. I keep and breed tangitanus too. Do yours have brown back legs and brown tails ?
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