Hey Everyone,
Great topic, but maybe I'm a little biased!
I'm working on a quadricornis care sheet right now and will let everyone know when I'm done with it, but to answer a few questions in this thread...
When planning your enclosures and such, I would recommend having one for each animal. You can never predict whether they will be peaceful long term. Recent example, one of our adult females just laid a clutch at the and of April. After a 6 week hiatus from the male (who normally, and gently, loves his ladies and will pace when they're not around) I introduced her back into the main enclosure. The male went bananas and unsuccessfully attempted to violently mate with the female, after which he proceeded to attack her viscously.
Moral of the story? Give a guy 6 weeks away from his lady friends and he realizes how amazing the freedom is!
All kidding aside, after 6 months of being by each others side, I thought they were inseparable until that moment. They can turn on each other very quickly. Females or males to either gender. In an attempt to save space, I placed two females together (mother and daughter funny enough) and Momma wasn't having it at all.
Now, my melodramatic story to illustrate how situations like this can go south doesn't negate the potential for you have different experiences. Like I said, they were inseparable for more than 6 months and for long periods of time before that in the care of their previous owners.
As far cage size goes, bigger truly is better but I don't recommend adults in anything smaller than a 2x2' foot print. Larger for multiple adults together. Height is something that is relative to your bonsai and furnishing skills. Our adult cages are mainly 2x2x3', with younger adults being housed in 2' cubes.
We don't provide basking spots since it tends to raise the temps in the room a bit too much, but the room rarely goes above 78 and usually hovers around 76. Oh, and DGray, most homes in FL have central air systems which does a decent job in our home. It will help when we sell our panther's and go entirely montane.
All enclosures are heavily planted, mostly with schefflera and everything is lit with Exo-Terra 5.0 linear bulbs.
They get misted three times per day at 10 mins each session. All enclosures drain into a main drainage system we have hooked up for all of our animals. RH goes up and down throughout the year. Averages seem to be ~40% in the winter up to ~70% in the summer. I turn the cool-mist humidifier on when it dips below the 40's.
We offer no supplementation, just well fed/gutloaded crickets. We use fresh vegetables and fruits daily along with a friends homemade gutload mixture.
Hmmm....did I miss anything? Oh, and yes, we will have a few available in the coming months. Unfortunately we won't have completely unrelated pairs so I'm hoping a few other folk can fill in the gaps. But the numbers are looking....good at the moment.
Luis
) and the stress and being constantly gravid wore them down.
