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Latest updates News. These visual identifies can be unreliable unfortunately. The only way of guaranteeing a male is seeing a physical copulation with a female. Long-tailed Lizards are keen and agile hunters of small insects. You can feed them small crickets, small locusts hoppers , and occasional snacks like waxworms or mini mealworms.
Livefood should be kept in cool, well ventilated containers and gut loaded with fresh dry vegetables, or a pre-made mixture such as our Livefood Care Pack which comes with both nutrients and hydration. Food should be dusted with a multivitamin D3 supplement once a week and straight calcium on all other days.
You should be very careful if handling them out in the open, they can shoot off at a moments notice. They may also take food out of your hands. Always support their body and be aware that any movement or surprise will make them dart off. Never grab a long-tailed lizard by the tail. If you need to hold a long-tailed lizard secure for a health check, hold them firmly between your forefinger and thumb below their head and legs, then support the body in the rest of your hand.
This will immobilize them without you having to hold onto their tail at all. These lizards are not hard to breed if you have setup the enclosure as above, giving them plenty of space, the right heating and UVB, as well as a good diet.
The main reason that they are wild caught is simply they are inexpensive and very abundant in the wild. This makes them a poor commercial target for breeding, but for the hobbyist who simply wants to experience the breeding process and add more captive bred babies into the country, breeding would be extremely rewarding. Always make sure your adults are in the very best of health before breeding, and ensure you have everything you need — including multiple setups with the correct heating and UVB — ready for the babies.
In the wild breeding season is April to June, so there is a fairly short window. In captivity they may breed outside this, but in general will only breed for a few months of the year. You may see courtship behaviour such as extensive arm waving and head bobbing, and the male may chase the female around the vivarium before catching her.
She will lay her eggs in a clutch of two to four in what she considers a safe place, which is usually underneath a plant, but can be stuck to branches or glass.
If the eggs are glued to an object you may be unable to remove them from the tank. If so, try to find a way of securing a tub around them so the eggs do not get damaged by the adults, who will knock them off or accidentally crush them sometimes. If they can be removed, it is much safer to move the eggs to an incubator.
They must be kept the way up that they were laid, as an air bubble will have formed at the top of the egg. Hi, eilwynn -- You have a perfect trio for breeding long-tails!
Yes, by all means remove the eggs. Your setup sounds good except for the breeze, which could introduce bacteria. Eggs should hatch in about weeks; feed the kids pinhead crickets and fruit flies which you can easily lure with some smashed banana in the lizards' cage. Robert Sprackland. I just found out i have 2 females and a male lucky guy. Both females laid eggs. First do i need to remove them to to hatch them? I have only boy Geckos, but long tailed grass lizards are new to me.
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