37!!!! At that point I'd use 'em for feeder crickets. A family friend came over, looked in our hatchling cage, and said "Where'd you get the bugs?" My first thought the first time I saw Jackson babies in a cage was "Crickets?" What the heck did you do with 37????
We've had adult females that kept red streaks in the brown background through child-bearing years, as if it were their permanent color. I've also seen the babies start as always black/streaks of white, then later color up to mostly green at about 3 month old. Right now all the 5 week old babies...
Run as fast as you can. You can't save the world. Maybe as a freebie it would be worth it to get practice rehabbing a sick animal, but you could also end up infecting your whole household's pets. Run, run, run.........
Hey another question for the experienced: our two female Jacksons arrived last year, one subadult, the other looked about 4m old. Now, both have grown and are active eaters, but the bigger one is green/black when mad, and the little one is always bark brown with red streaks, black when mad (when...
Hey, please do your research in advance of the arrival. The books are very poor in their reports of needed care, but the forums are great. Please make sure you get as much info as possible. I love Jacksons and would walk you through it. Even my teenaged girls and their friends hold the parents...
Ahhh, large clutches are not an unbridled blessing. Last litter cost me almost $300 in crickets over four months, as I made some mistakes with cricket orders--- way too small, too few at a time, and the shipping cost doubles the price of the feeder animals, especially in winter! We had found a...
Our survival rate for Jackson babies is 99.99%. What the heck are these other people doing wrong? The three most important things are 1) hydrate 2)hydrate 3) hydrate. The guy from Hawaii taught us to put the whole family (lizards, not humans) in a dripping shower or under a misting hose...
Oh heck over the past 20 years when we were getting fresh, fat and sassy wild-caught moms from Hawaii, the most we ever had was a dozen babies at once. I've heard of big litters but it must just be urban legend. My kids were thrilled--you'd think girls would be skittish, but all their teenage...