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C.ensicauda.popei tail-fanning
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leonardo
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here is my pair...eheheh
the photo is not as good as Tim's one...but my pair is as "hot" as his!hahaha!
Leo
the photo is not as good as Tim's one...but my pair is as "hot" as his!hahaha!
Leo
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leonardo
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here is my pair...eheheh
the photo is not as good as Tim's one...but my pair is as "hot" as his!hahaha!
Leo
the photo is not as good as Tim's one...but my pair is as "hot" as his!hahaha!
Leo
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Very nice n' hot action photo there, Leo
When I added the female shown above into the tank, the males literally mobbed her. I'm going to see if I can't adjust my camera settings so I can better capture the motion of the male's tail. I've given up on taking video after accidently dropping my Nikon Coolpix into a lake
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kei
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Tim, are they new popei from Okinawa trip?
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paul
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Hi Leo,
very nice to see this "hot" pair.
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very nice to see this "hot" pair.
Paul
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Hi Kei
Well, the red-striped female isn't, the other two are. But as it turns out, the red-striped female does hail from the very same area.
Yes, I did bring some back for a special tank I've set up to mimic their natural environment as best I can. But I'm still making feeble attempts to placate my conscience, reminding myself that I "rescued" far more than I took away (we collected dozens of "doomed" ensicauda from dry drainage ditches and polluted irrigation ponds and relocated them to suitable habitats nearby).
I'm debating the wisdom of breeding these and releasing their progeny to the same location their parents came from. As I've been reminded, they'd have to be kept isolated to reduce the danger of introducing exotic pathogens (for which wild stocks have less resistance than animals derived from captive populations). Jury's still out on this one
(see: http://www.anapsid.org/neilsen.html)
I admire one Japanese breeders' announced intention to breed them for local hobbyists in light of increasingly common commercial over-collection. But the obvious problem is that there aren't that many people willing and able to go to the trouble of raising these demanding CB juvies to adulthood, and pet shop prices for WC adults are so low already
By the way, I recently spoke with a local herpetologist who warned there is a real danger now of wild populations of ensicauda dropping very suddenly and sharply because the life cycle of this species is being so disrupted
Yes, I did bring some back for a special tank I've set up to mimic their natural environment as best I can. But I'm still making feeble attempts to placate my conscience, reminding myself that I "rescued" far more than I took away (we collected dozens of "doomed" ensicauda from dry drainage ditches and polluted irrigation ponds and relocated them to suitable habitats nearby).
I'm debating the wisdom of breeding these and releasing their progeny to the same location their parents came from. As I've been reminded, they'd have to be kept isolated to reduce the danger of introducing exotic pathogens (for which wild stocks have less resistance than animals derived from captive populations). Jury's still out on this one
(see: http://www.anapsid.org/neilsen.html)
I admire one Japanese breeders' announced intention to breed them for local hobbyists in light of increasingly common commercial over-collection. But the obvious problem is that there aren't that many people willing and able to go to the trouble of raising these demanding CB juvies to adulthood, and pet shop prices for WC adults are so low already
By the way, I recently spoke with a local herpetologist who warned there is a real danger now of wild populations of ensicauda dropping very suddenly and sharply because the life cycle of this species is being so disrupted
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leonardo
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Hi everybody!
Paul, this pair is VERY hot, the male chases and courts the female from more than a month, and she keeps on laying eggs....now I have 80 eggs (from this female only!!!)...I'm so happy!
Tim
beautiful animals, even if wild caught! :-(
breeding them and releasing the offspring would be great, I do this with T.carnifex every year
bye
Leo
Paul, this pair is VERY hot, the male chases and courts the female from more than a month, and she keeps on laying eggs....now I have 80 eggs (from this female only!!!)...I'm so happy!
Tim
beautiful animals, even if wild caught! :-(
breeding them and releasing the offspring would be great, I do this with T.carnifex every year
bye
Leo