Hello folks, this week we bring to you the ever so popular Pachydactylus rangei. Commonly referred to as Namibian webfoot geckos, these smaller geckos make excellent captives. They do well on sand, and their webbed feet help them navigate through it with ease. Not only are they very cool looking, they also have a pleasant demeanor. They are unusually calm, and truly enjoy digging, and burrowing in sand. I keep my colony in groups of 1.3, and get great results in regards to breeding, and egg laying. A very prolific, and hardy species for sure. Females can lay 2 egg clutches every 3 weeks or so, and can easily lay 8 or more clutches per season, no problem. Enjoy......
"Commonly" (a very relative term as they aren't commonly referred to at all) named the Green keel bellied lizard for all of you non Latin lovers (myself excluded there) are endemic to an Eastern portion of the African peninsula, Tanzania, as well as Kenya to be precise. They reside in the canopies of trees and therefore are not seen frequently, not only in the wild, but also in herp collections. Here are a few photos. Special thanks to Steve Cemelli from www.leapinleachies.com for the pictures taken without his knowledge :) enjoy! Here are some videos as well:
Here's the second vido, this guy recently finished eating a cricket. I tried to get a video of him eating, but it didn't go as planned. The video gives you a different perspective on the lizard none the less.
And here is a third video of them eating some prepared carniverous diet from a pair of tongs.
OK, thanks for tuning in everybody. I'm going to start the countdown with a velvet gecko species coming from Australia that was a very popular species in the hobby about 7 or so years back, but now I don't see many of these around at all. This is kind of sad because they are a brilliant gecko with stunning patterns and coloration. I had a small breeding group of these back when, so these pictures are a bit dated, but as you can see, they are brilliant geckos...Enjoy Oli
So, obviously, this is a totally opinion based blog publication, but I am not close minded towards your opinions on which species should be included in this list. So contact me in any way, email, facebook, text, etc. to throw your $0.02 in my direction. Granted the finite nature of this countdown, and the fact that I will be excluding the 52 species that were included in the 2010-2011 countdown, there can only be so many posts. I must say, that I am a bit biased towards species I have in my collection, because if I wasn't I wouldn't have acquired them. I will try my best to not only include pictures (as high quality as I could take, or obtain), but also video's. So the countdown will be not only of species that I keep, but those kept by others in the hobby, and credit will be given towards the individuals that help me out. That being said, I have created a video to hype you people up. I consider it as somewhat of a brief glimpse of what's in store. I apologize for the video's quality at times, YouTube removed some of the audio sections due to copy rite infringement. I apologize to the musicians that I have stolen from. I'm going to try and have some fun with this count down. Special thanks to all the organizations that fight for our right to keep these beautiful exotic animals. Please support them with whatever means you can do so, they are critical for the continuation of this hobby!!! Yours truly, Oli
Here, as you can see, is a very small gecko native to St. John, USVI. I came across these geckos while vacationing, about 15 yards from the beach. They reside in the leaf litter of sea grapes. They are the only indigenous species to the island, but there are other introduced species which occupy the island as well.
The last photo here is of their native environment, and yes, they have it good!
Good evening! I've just come here to clear up any debate to the rawdog community on whether we are keeping any common species. The answer is yes, absolutely. Personally, I like a lot of the more common species. I feel like they are definitely common for the reason that they are well liked and have many desirable characteristics, ie. look great, great coloration, awesome personality, great eaters, ease of care/hardiness and so on. I have kept leopard geckos, and ball pythons in the past, and as played out as they may very well be, I still think they are beautiful geckos. I was having this discussion with a friend this past weekend at the white plains reptile show, and it seems to arise in conversation often. I just love the natural beauty of these reptiles. I even really like how morphs look, there I said it lol. Put that in your pipe, and smoke it! 😉
Here's just a few pictures of some geckos at my place. The first is an African rock dwelling species, and the last is one of our favorite knob tail gecko species! Enjoy!
