| Cites status: |
Cites Appendix II, obligation to keep records and to register! |
| Geographical Extension: |
Madagascar (insular populaces in East-Madagascar, Nosy Boraha) |
| Habitat: |
tropical rainforest, night-active |
| Size: |
up to 22 cm |
| Life Expectancy: |
over 5 years |
| Reproduction: |
2 hard-shelled eggs, several clutches per year. Incubation period at |
| Temperature: |
air temperature between 24-26°C, locally up to 28-30°C. Night-time temperature drop to 17°C if possible. |
| Humidity: |
70-100% |
| Lighting: |
Daylight fluorescent tubes, if necessary UV tubes (see "Sorry Link missing"). For sufficient UV radiation we recommend "Sorry Link missing" or "Sorry Link missing". "Sorry Link missing" for the creation of local heat spots. |
| Substrate: |
loose, absorptive substrate (see "Sorry Link missing"). |
| Cage Furniture: |
amongst others vertical climbing facilities (in varying strenghts), additionally it is recommended to encase rear and side panels in cork. Planting is possible (Ficus benjamina, F. pumila, Scindapsus etc.). Various hiding places (branch-excavates, bamboo) and a water bowl - possibly with water fall or similar round off the terrarium configuration. |
| Terrarium Size (for long term care): |
for a pair: 50 x 50 x 100 cm (LxBxH) |
| food: |
Insects (e.g. small cricktets, house crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, flies, wax moths, freshly born mice etc.) also products from the "Sorry Link missing". Regular additions of "Sorry Link missing" and "Sorry Link missing" are necessary. |
| Comment: |
hiding places have to be controllable at all times. Subspecies differ in the colour of their oral mucosa: U. s. sameti (fleshcoloured) and U. s. sikorae (black). |
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