Shelly said:Question... if hatchlings are never seen in the wild, how were the initial hatchlings collected for the pet trade? Were they collected as eggs?
I agree with Mr. Benson. To my knowledge nothing under 4" could legally be imported and I never saw any imports smaller than that back when they were still importing. I was told that they were mostly "farm" raised. That could mean many things...
Laura said:when i saw Open House.. i thought we were all invited... darn..
So.. i notice they house lots together.. do they have problems with that? males only?
also,, his fences.. do they push thru them?
Dave is the one that told me about training them to get along by flipping any new additions who get aggressive for a few minutes at a time. This seems to work for him as that big pen in the pic had a whole lot of them, around 70, and they all were getting along fine. He has one big male (in the other pic) that has to live alone as he refuses to play well with any of the others.
Other than the normal sulcata digging, he has no problems with pushing on the fence or escaping. I don't know anyone with sulcatas that doesn't have to do SOME perimeter maintenance, and Dave's place seems no different in that respect. That pen is also pretty big. Its sort of triangle shape (Dean corrected me and called it more of a trapezoid...). Its around 75 yards tall and 55 wide. He looking to expand it onto another two acres there.