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Personally in my beardy enclosures I use a 10.0 reptile one tube bulb, and and a separate spotlight bulb (75w) for heat and basking. Tube bulbs are normally better due to being able to cover the whole of the enclosure as well as the UV gradient not being as harsh as most other bulbs you can purchase.

20gal longs are normally around 60cm long by 30cm wide floor size. Could probably get away with keeping a young leopard gecko in it, but I would still say it's too small for an adult. I had a single female in a 60cmX50cm and still felt this was too small. Leopard geckos are also an excellent starter reptile for those new to keeping.

My father used to tell me that when we were kids there were frillies living near the sheltered beach our family used to visit, and how they would get up on their back legs and run. I can't remember ever seeing them (would have been too young at the time) but believe that they probably were there at some point, dunno what other kind of large lizard in NZ would get up on their hind legs to run. Would love some to be in NZ their frills are awesome

I normally do weekly weigh ins until they're about 12-18months old to check they are growing properly. I wish more people posted their weigh ins too, to compare.

I have a girl that's around 24months old she weighs in at 440-450g She's a big healthy looking girl Her hanging off one of her branches.

Oh cool I hadn't seen them there. This one is local (Christchurch) so pretty handy Will have to wait till they open up again on Tuesday.

Cool thanks. I may have to just go and purchase her tomorrow less than $400 not bad for one

Am I right in saying this is a Emydura subglobosa? Was listed as "australian painted turtle". Haven't seen the specie enough to be sure, a second opinion would be awesome

I normally feed locusts that I breed myself, but have been feeding a lot more crickets from a breeder here as of recent (the reps were getting bored of their food), they're bloody noisy though lol.

Yea they still produce infertile eggs, haven't had any slugs from any of my adult females yet (beardies too). The only ones I've had are couple of infertile ones from a breeding pair of coastals I had. 30g is pretty small for one to start producing would be surprising, hope you fattened her back up with lots of wax worms .

Thanks . She's very friendly too. Nope haven't seen any eggs yet at all. She's between 45-50 grams so just really hit breeding weight now. Although I do not plan on breeding her myself.

Yea I think they use a non-toxic soy based ink in the news papers now days.

Here's a picture of my female high yellow I got from alan sometime ago. She would be around 19-20months now.

I do that also with my grass also, keep it in water just gotta watch your locusts can't fall in and drown.

Mine get a vitamin bran mix, carrot or rocket salad as backup when I don't have time/access to go grab enough grass.

I can second this, as I know this lady also . All hers feed on small locusts and fruit fly when she can get an amount on fruit, she had mealworms but like alan said they don't eat them. She has about 7 or 8 outdoor enclosures full of different native species and babies . Love her green geckos not sure if they're naultinus gemmeus or from another NZ region now, apparently they're very hard to get to breed though.

Love the feets

I also agree that getting a leo is a much better starter reptile than a bearded dragon. They require a lot less equipment and are much much easier to feed. While Alan is right in saying that leos don't come out much during daylight hours, so you may not see it wandering around too much naturally, it doesn't stop you from handling it thought . I got my Leo from Alan and she's doing wonderfully

Never heard of the term mini mealworm when not referring to "small mealworms".

I imagine carrots are more of a sometimes/occasional food for them, like it's supposed to be with beardies as well. Although did you mean vitamin A? As I didn't think carrots had a high concentration of Vit E? :dunno: But in saying that it's also very hard to get a Vit A toxicity from plant material because of the form the vitamin comes in, would need to be doubled up with an overdose of vitamin powder before it's problem. Can't say carrot is beneficial at all in the calcium department either for them. Squash of all kinds makes an easy and excellent additional staple veg. grated or cut up. Should point out that the whole dandelion plant is a edible and that the leaves can make a great addition to a staple diet. So everyone knows it's not just the flowers . So many people get the impression the rest of the plant is poisonous...

Locusts make a great staple insect but they do grow rather large (length of your pinky finger) so would need to be fed out early regularly for frogs I would imagine.

Normally you base whether they're ready to breed on weight not age this is because before they are a certain weight they do not the produce enough hormones for breeding, how much does your gecko weigh?

My pretty girl, heads about to shed again

I concur. I would like to get some too lol.