OlllieSnakeS

[olllie]

Thenx!
Here is my tokay gecko:





And why not, a panoramic:











The little bright tank in the left corner houses the little bombina orientalis and lima frogs as shown on picture below.








On the left the fast growing Solomon tree boa, and the vivaria on the right houses
the Dendrobates leucomelas, as shown below.


He ate a live fuzzy today.

 

[coura]

You have very nice both animals and habitats for them Just a peace of advice: for the haitian curly tails I would go more for a mix of sand, peat and argilous soil, several centimeters thick to allow the construction of nests by the females. Also I would put the red belly turtles apart from the soft shell.

 

[olllie]

Argilous soil, as dry sand, you mean?
Im hoping on some offspring.
And peat is like cocopeat, chrushed outer shells of the nut?
Right now I use rounded sand and woodchips. Hay and beachsand.
But Im willing to adjust, if it enhances the chances in breeding.
I just do not understand what argilous soil and peat is.

And you really mean the red bellies and the softshell are not compatible?
They live together in the wild, dont they?
I mixed them because of the distraction.

 

[coura]

Argilous soil, as dry sand, you mean?
Im hoping on some offspring.
And peat is like cocopeat, chrushed outer shells of the nut?
Right now I use rounded sand and woodchips. Hay and beachsand.
But Im willing to adjust, if it enhances the chances in breeding.
I just do not understand what argilous soil and peat is.

And you really mean the red bellies and the softshell are not compatible?
They live together in the wild, dont they?
I mixed them because of the distraction.

Peat is decomposed vegetable matter, you find it on dry blocks you ad water to, in pet stores. Cocopeat yes sir, that will work as well.
The other kind of soil is like clay based soil or you know normal dirt. If you colect your own dirt it is advisable to get it from a place far from roads and other sources of contamination. You have to get "clean" dirt. Mix the sand, peat and dirt together. Then you can use most of it relatively dry in the terrarium with a corner more moist where the females will be depositing the eggs. It is hard to descrive the exact amount of water to ad to it, you know the consistence you feal when you open a bag of potting soil? Thats what you want, sligthly moist.
And yes softies are better kept in solo habitats. What kind of softie is yours? From the pic it apears to me its a chinese softie Pelodiscus sinensis which is one of the more agressive species. Red bellies in the wild enconter the softshells of the genus Apalone which are more peacefull but not garanteed.

 

[olllie]

Yep mine is an apalone ferox. For all I know red bellies are no wimps.
So I hope to see em happily together.
And the peat, I have it for my dart frogs. Ill buy some potting soil with it.
Put it in a corner and see.

Thenk you for the info.

 

[coura]

Yep mine is an apalone ferox. For all I know red bellies are no wimps.
So I hope to see em happily together.
And the peat, I have it for my dart frogs. Ill buy some potting soil with it.
Put it in a corner and see.

Thenk you for the info.

Watch out, Apalone ferox is indeed relativelly well behaved for a softy but it grows faster then cooters do and in a few moths you could endup in a unbalanced situation. Its also good to remenbar that this guys grow to be 40 cm long easily so a huge aquaterrarium is needed in the medium term.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

The Room looks fantastic my friend!

 

[olllie]

Hey thenx Bogwoodbruce!
Had two folks from the housing association over, who were shocked.
I hate calvinism.

I have glass panels for building more vivaria. Got them for free from a fellow dutch forum member.
I tend to recycle as much as possible. Keep my ecological footprint as small as I can.
I have quarantine tanks standing empty, for any kind of emergency.

Red bellies get 40 cm, like softshells, so I know where Im in for.
My snapper is about 5" now, so he'll need a nice riparium soon too.
Cant wait.

Cant help posting some more pics too:
55 cm of bonecrushing beauty. Called him or her Hemp:



Pitty its wintertime, cause I used to have a lot of snails on my terrace. Big ones. They hide well.

The tegu likes for me to open the curtain, so he can watch the birds:

Here he's saying: come on! Open them!

The Solomon Boa takes one week old mice: