New Uroplatus

[Ptindy]

Hey everyone, today I received a shipment of Uroplatus from Neil Meister, and I must say, I'm very impressed. The geckos are a lot nicer in person then pictures can show. I will post better pictures of them soon in their set ups when they are all settled in but these ones were taken quickly when I was putting them in their new homes. Enjoy.

Here is a mossy leaf tailed gecko (Uroplatus Sikorae Sikorae) that I'm hoping is male. Both have regenerating tails as they encountered a mean hatchling when they were growing up.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/Ptindy/IMG_0409.jpg

Here is another Mossy that I'm hoping is a female. I've been told by Neil that males tend to have more of a line pattern where as females are more blotchy.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/Ptindy/IMG_0411.jpg

Here is a female lined leaf tail (Uroplatus Lineatus) that has to grow up so I can pair her with my male I had from before the shipment. Males have a chopped up white line down the middle of there back where females have two white lines one on either side of the body that tend to be cleaner then a males' line.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/Ptindy/IMG_0412.jpg

Here is the male.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/Ptindy/Linus1.jpg

Here is my tailless Satanic leaf tail (Uroplatus Phantasticus) I recieved who is very dark in coloration and hoping it to be female, time will tell. Neil said there is a good chance it is and he knows best so I'll go with his words. Sorry about the bad pic I didn't wanna stress it out to get a good one.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/Ptindy/IMG_0415.jpg

Here is my male phantasticus. He's hard to see because of his camo but he has a very neat tail with little notches is the edge of his tail to look like leaf decay. He's a bit bigger then the previous.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/Ptindy/IMG_0413.jpg

Here is my female Uropatus Phantasticus that is the largest.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/Ptindy/IMG_0416.jpg

I hope to breed all three of these species one day. Right now my only concern is heat. My apartment is right above the boiler room so it can get warm, I need to buy an evaporative cooler for my room. Uroplatus don't require any heat sources and fair well at or below room temperatures. They say that heat is free in the lease but I found out it's beacuse we've only used it when it's minus 30 out, pretty lame. Anyways, hope you like the pictures and it makes you want to get some of your own, a beautiful genus Uroplatus is.

Take care,
Mike

[silent_truth]

Mike: Absolutely awesome uroplatus! Sometime in the near future I'm gonna have to get myself a pair of sikorae. Good sign that I got tonight though, as I caught my phantasticus pair mating.

Congrats on the new geckos!

-Adam

[Slannesh]

Very cool Mike! Take some more pics once everyone is settled in please :) I'd like to see more.

[Nicky]

Nice pics:)

[concept3]

AWSOME uroplatus. I really love the lineatus female. The satanics look wicked too. How much was shipping if you dont mind me asking? You can pm me if you dont want to post it. Thanx.

[Manitoban Herps]

Your a lucky man Mike, very lucky.

[little_dragon_]

Goodluck on your breeding projects!

[ChokeOnSmoke]

nice additions

[CDN-Cresties]

Awesome additions, best of luck with them!

[TLH_Wär§cöötmän]

Neat little guys!! Hard to see LOL they camo in very well.

[clint545]

Nice Geckos! be sure to keep us updated on the breeeding:)

[Ptindy]

Hey everyone, thanks a lot, I'm really happy with them and I am amazed at what beautiful geckos nature creates.

Silent Truth: You should definately get a pair of Sikorae, I don't have any experience with them yet but from I have seen so far, basically their camoflauge onto stick, is amazing. I would definately suggest getting a pair.

Slannesh: Don't worry there will be many more pictures taken, I will post some of the best ones for sure when they are ready for a photo shoot or I see them doing something strange.

Concept3: No worries, shipping costed me 140.80 from Nova Scotia to Calgary with 6 geckos in it and lots of extra space in the box haha. I think he still has a female for sale of the lineatus but I may be mistaken.

Thanks for all the comments again everyone and I'll keep you updated on how things are going here. I was talking with Neil for about 4 months before I got this shipment and I hope I've crammed enough in my head to be able to deal with these species, but you can only read so much and the rest is learned by experience. I worked many many long overtime hours to jusitfy buying these additions. Take care.

Mike

[spidergecko]

Originally posted by Ptindy
I worked many many long overtime hours to jusitfy buying these additions.

I had to sell my salt water aquarium to get mine. (In the end that was a good thing because that stupid aquarium was a money pit.)

[JeffT]

woa awsome stuff Mike!! Well if you succeed in breeding them be sure to let me know, Id definately want to support you in bringing some CB stuff into calgary.

[ATBlover]

Hey nice geckos...I have a leaftail of my own but he just dropped his tail for no reason:( but its ok..i still like him and i want to get a female for him...to breed and maybe i could get some nice babies....Connor

[Ptindy]

Hey Conner, what kind of leaf tail?
Thanks Jeff, I'll surely let ya know. And I still want those bugs!! Drop me an email.

Mike

[StickyToes]

Those are some awesome new additions! Best of luck with them!
James

[Ptindy]

Thanks James, much appreciated. I am so fascinated with them all. My favourite are the phants as I let you know at the last Edmonton Show with "the coolest reptiles in this room, right there", they are so fascinating and much more active then the sikorae or lineatus. I just looked at em with a small keychain flashlight and the female was climbing up the ficus head first and she stopped and started waving her tail back and forth to mimic a leaf in the the wind, it was neat.

Mike

[StickyToes]

You're gonna get to see a lot of the tail waving from the phants as they seem to use this form of communication quite a bit. Definitely one of the reasons they are one of my favorite species of gecko! Just wait until you have your first hatchlings! :D

[Gex]

Beaqutiful Uroplatus, just recently took the plunge into this genus myself.

[ATBlover]

Its a lineatus...im not good with the latin names so..lol if im wrong about anything...then it looks like the 1 in ur 3'rd pic i think...

[galad]

yes very wicked geckos.
I am right now working with panther chameleons, and would love to get into the uroplatus. It is my hope for the future to breed as many reptiles from madagascar as possible.
My next addition will hopefully be the sickorea followed by fantasticus. LOl sorry bout the spelling.

DOes your supplier have a web page I would love to go through him seems to have some realy nice animals.

peace

ws

[orion_dv8]

Is there any supplier of U. phantasticus in Ontario, pref near Ottawa or Mtl. I am seriously debating getting a pair, are they expensive? I havent seen em in any price list. Also they are a fairly delicate species right? I have cared for U. lineatus and found them to be quite hardy, is the care similar.
thanks
ORION

[little_dragon_]

The best thing to do is get a pair from Neil himself.
It would be worth the shipping cost ;)

I purchased my pair from port credit pets in the summer they were from Neil and in great health! You should give them a call and find out if they have or receiving more.
The prices for all Uroplatus are going to sky rocket because of their listing change on CITES

[Ptindy]

Nope, Neil doesn't have a webpage. You're best bet would be to go to www.kings*ake.ca and go to the canadian classifieds, check under lizards and his entry is usually titled "Rare Geckos For Sale". It will have all that's available the date it was listed and his email. I'm sure animals will be missing off the list if the ad is a couple weeks old, good luckl.

Mike

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