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28-Mar-08, 08:59 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Sydney Gender:  | | | | hmmm maybe they are, do blind snakes lay tiny white eggs? |
28-Mar-08, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by arielle  hmmm maybe they are, do blind snakes lay tiny white eggs? | Possibly, but they do eat the eggs of ants which is more likely what you are seeing.
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28-Mar-08, 09:07 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | | No, once when we moved a woodpile we found some little white eggs with a few blind snakes/legless lizards (about 3 inches). We kept some eggs to hatch them and then let them go, they looked like tiny lizards/snakes (about 1/2cm) |
28-Mar-08, 09:18 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-06 Location: australia | | | | Well done Danny and Henry. It's great you guys are breeding animals that are not common in captivity. Both of them look great.
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29-Mar-08, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by geckodan 1 of mine is going to a mate. The other is available when it hatches - EOI considered | Will PM you on this. |
29-Mar-08, 07:42 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Red Centre Age: 30 | | | | Hi Nephrurus could you post a picture of the parents and maybe show the spurs on the male? Your P.schraderi look fantastic, were the parents wild caught or did these come from another breeder? If so could you pm me the details, I have been after pygopus for quite a while. Great pictures of those juvs. Congrats.
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30-Mar-08, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by salebrosus Will PM you on this. | Too late. |
30-Mar-08, 11:14 AM
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30-Mar-08, 07:51 PM
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31-Mar-08, 04:16 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-04 Location: Western Sydney | | | Righto, heres some tips how to sex scaly foots (Pygopus). I assume it works the same with Delma and Burtons. Danny explained to me exactly how to sex properly, so I took some photos.
It's all about hunting for the paracloacal spur in males. They usually twist and spin and try and rip themselves in two, and if you're unlucky they'll drop their tail on you. This is because almost all scaly foots in captivity are wild caught. I'm lucky enough to have 2 captive bred animals to photograph. Now, being very gentle, handle the scaly foot until it sticks it's little flap in the air (they wave at you). Underneath will be a small scale that is much larger than the surrounding ones. It's the paracloacal spur. Only the males have these. They also have slightly larger "flaps". This technique works for Pygopus, I'm not sure about Delmas and Burtons (Danny? could you shed some light?).   
So there you go. I used a paint brush to gentle hold the flap back for photos.
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31-Mar-08, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Nephrurus Righto, heres some tips how to sex scaly foots (Pygopus). I assume it works the same with Delma and Burtons. Danny explained to me exactly how to sex properly, so I took some photos.
It's all about hunting for the paracloacal spur in males. They usually twist and spin and try and rip themselves in two, and if you're unlucky they'll drop their tail on you. This is because almost all scaly foots in captivity are wild caught. I'm lucky enough to have 2 captive bred animals to photograph. Now, being very gentle, handle the scaly foot until it sticks it's little flap in the air (they wave at you). Underneath will be a small scale that is much larger than the surrounding ones. It's the paracloacal spur. Only the males have these. They also have slightly larger "flaps". This technique works for Pygopus, I'm not sure about Delmas and Burtons (Danny? could you shed some light?).
[So there you go. I used a paint brush to gentle hold the flap back for photos.
-H | Delmas and paradelmas are identical. Lialis have a triangular spur, less shiny but firmer than adjacent scales. Great pics mate. Can I use them??? |
31-Mar-08, 04:57 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-04 Location: Western Sydney | | | You can use them so long as they have my name firmly stuck on them!  If you need higher res ones for "the book" fling us an email and I'll send them through. 
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31-Mar-08, 05:26 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Red Centre Age: 30 | | | | Great photos Nephrurus and thanks for taking the effort.
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