Wow, you are not kidding about being tiny. So will the mom eat any of the babies if you don't remove them? I like the photo of the 'penny' one, looks as if he is starting his beard already.

Congratulations on the new additions.

Great work, Chris !!!

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Congrats! They look great!

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My Jungle Herps

Chris,

With the majority of the imported group being MIA, I think it's absolutely imperative we stick to our original game plan.

I'm just hoping for similar success so I have something to trade. As we've both noticed, one day she will look fat and ready to pop and the next she'll look thinner than ever.

Keep me posted and let me know if you need room to house all of these. I do have some space ready to utilized.

Luis

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Hi Chris,

I think all those species are not really difficult. To be honest the only species I ever found difficult to raise was senegalensis.

The only thing to remember is that with those live bearers the chance is bigger some baby's die. As some eggs don't hatch with egg layers. My experience is as long as no folikels or dead baby's are born all baby's should survive.

Congratulations Chris, great work!

Ill let you know if I have any to sell to america, problem is I am only getting my new ones in february.
Hopefully I will have females that will drop and I can then send Ben what he wants, then the first american I will go to about selling willl be you, but Ben has called first dibs, you get dibs aswell if you like.

-tyrone

Thanks Tyrone !

Anytime ben!

Im so bummed about her dieing, but breeding season is coming in hermanus and Im going to be there to get mine!

Sorry to sorta hi jack your thread Chris!

Whenever I have babies born, I always compile a list of people who have expressed interest in any them and once they are ready to go, I contact those people before I post any of the babies for sale publicly. My first priority with this species, however, will be exchanging bloodlines with other Bd. transvaalense keepers to help make sure the population has a good foundation. After that, I have a lot of people already who have contacted me but I will add you to the list and hopefully I'll have a few extra. Fingers crossed they all do well!

There are reports of females of other Bradypodion species eating their babies so as soon as I found them I removed them. I spent a lot of time looking for them so I don't think I missed any but I've been watching closely over the last couple days.

Yeah, its such a shame so many ended up in the situation they did. Hopefully your female and my other female will both drop though and the babies will all do alright!

I should be good for room to house them though. I have 5 baby enclosures and a number of slightly larger "growing up" enclosures free at the moment. Its mostly just a matter of organizing where I put the cages at the moment. I should be switching to my new rack system next week though so everything will be really nicely organized once its done.

Yeah, I understand what you mean. I did not find any slugs or dead babies so I'll keep my fingers crossed!

Sounds good. I've got my hands full for a bit anyway.

Thanks for all the comments everyone!

Chris

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Department of Integrative Biology
University of South Florida
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