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Couple simple questions
temperature: ive read 75-88 degrees is good and you dont need a basking spot. or do you? humidity: what should it be? ive read 50-80% food: i have colony of crickets for my ackie so that would be he staple food source. i also plan on getting some mealworms and offering a pinkie mouse once a week. sound good? housing: will a 20L be to big for a hatchling tokay or will it stress him out being in a big enclosure? also, will a 20L be suitable for an adult? decor: i plan on having some climbing branches, one or two hides, and maybe a fake vine. does that sound good? thank you. |
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| 07/26/06 01:33am |
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Andrew7667 View Profile |
Message To: Marshall92 In reference to Message Id: 905872 Couple simple questions
Umm...no. 20L will not be near enough. I would suggest getting a 30-50 gallon (114-190 liter) tank. You don’t need a basking spot as they are nocturnal. It should also be cooler at night. I suggest getting a day glo bulb and just set it on a timer. Your home should be around 75 degrees at night anyway. A heating pad is also suggested. My tokays LOVE crickets. In fact, they’ll hardly eat anything else. I suggest only feeding it pinkies once or twice a month with meal worms on the weekends. Once a week with the pinkies will give you a fat tokay. Climbing branches are great, as long as it’s big enough for them to actually climb on. Mine prefer the glass to my branches, but I have no clue why. It does make my tank look nice though. Fake plants are great. One of my tokays prefers hiding behind a plant than in the hide (although she does go in there). I’d put 4 or 5 fake plants (the kind that stick to the glass are good). One or two hides should work, but make sure they’re large hides. Small hides won’t work as these geckos can get pretty big. Hope that helps. If not, feel free to ask more questions. :) |
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| 07/26/06 02:16am |
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Silvermist3 View Profile |
Message To: Andrew7667 In reference to Message Id: 905908 Couple simple questions
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| 08/19/06 08:56pm |
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Message To: Silvermist3 In reference to Message Id: 947685 Couple simple questions
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| 08/21/06 12:31am |
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SnakeLover24 View Profile |
Message To: Marshall92 In reference to Message Id: 905872 Couple simple questions
Humdity - 50-75 % Food:Crickets , meal worms, (wax worms to fatting them up), pinky mice one a month, earth worms, superworms, moths, butter worms, and tomato horned worms. housing: since these are arboreal animals you need more height than you do floor space. IF you can buy a 29 Gallon tank that is 30L X 12W X 18H. This is perfect you won;t need anything bigger than this unless you have more than two tokays I have two tokays in a 20gallon they aren’t stressed out all the time but on a scale from 1 - 10 I think if they were to rate it, they would rate how much they liked it at about a 4 -5. so when I move in my new apartment I’ll be switching them over to a 29. Decor: you have all that right. At least two hides, some Good sturdy fake plants and climbin branches. if you can, try to glue a bird house type thing to the inside middle of the walls of the tank. The tokay will feel secure high up but in a hide. |
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