Hellow all,
I recently bred Archispirostreptus gigas and wondered if any one else has had any luck? I got 2 females and a male in October 2013 and removed 35 babies end of January 2014 which are now about 5cm long, I have seen them mate a number of times and it looks like I have a 2nd brood just emerging as there are 3cm babies in the tank. I keep them dry, they seem to get enough moisture from there food and I avoid cleaning them out or disturbing them, they are in a 60cm by 45cm tank with about 10cm of peat substrate and branches for climbing.
I feed them a variety of food including potato, cucumber and mushrooms which they are particularly fond of. They may well be cannibalistic as young, of the 35 babies separately housed there are 24 left with no sign of remains so I have started giving them extra calcium, I prefer using egg shells and snail shells to cuttlefish (no cuttlefish in the forest) and so far they seem to be doing fairly well, they are however very shy as young and you rarely see more than 10% of the young above ground
nice little creatures though and growing much faster than expected at 5cm after 3 months
I recently bred Archispirostreptus gigas and wondered if any one else has had any luck? I got 2 females and a male in October 2013 and removed 35 babies end of January 2014 which are now about 5cm long, I have seen them mate a number of times and it looks like I have a 2nd brood just emerging as there are 3cm babies in the tank. I keep them dry, they seem to get enough moisture from there food and I avoid cleaning them out or disturbing them, they are in a 60cm by 45cm tank with about 10cm of peat substrate and branches for climbing.
I feed them a variety of food including potato, cucumber and mushrooms which they are particularly fond of. They may well be cannibalistic as young, of the 35 babies separately housed there are 24 left with no sign of remains so I have started giving them extra calcium, I prefer using egg shells and snail shells to cuttlefish (no cuttlefish in the forest) and so far they seem to be doing fairly well, they are however very shy as young and you rarely see more than 10% of the young above ground
nice little creatures though and growing much faster than expected at 5cm after 3 months