Long-tailed grass lizards, 7 weeks later

[ike]

Just a quick update on my viv with three Takydromus sexlineatus. The plants have become very well-established and everyone has settled into their lush digs very well. I have begun setting up an automatic humidity system (I'll be posting about it on the appropriate forum when I'm done here!). I've already found two eggs (unfortunately destroyed before I knew they were there) and I just saw one of the males mating with the female again today! (That was a bit disconcerting as he had clamped his mouth around her middle while mating, leaving quite a mark when he was done. She's fine, though). They are really active and fun lizards to watch...diurnal, too, which makes it even better!

Plants in the viv:



One of the males (note that he is missing a front foot - he came that way to me, probably from an incomplete shedding. Didn't deter him any from mating with the female, though!)



I do have a pic of them mating, mostly just for documentation's sake as there isn't much published on breeding these guys.

[beckdg]

breeding pics, breeding pics sis boom bah... hooray!
alright now i did my little breeding pics rain dance... now i'm going to go smoke my peace pipe and wait for the pics. hopefully the picture gods will ablige.

they're pretty cool!

[ike]

Okay - stop dancin', already, LOL! Here's a pic, but it's a bit difficult to see. The female is the one with the greenish belly, nose pointing towards top of pic. You can see the male (brown, spotted) about halfway down her flank, to the right, clamped on with his jaw. Their extremely long tails are intertwined. The important business is going on underneath in this pic (you can sort of see where their tails first touch, hers is the lighter one). He eventually turned her on her back just before they parted, but didn't get a pic of that.

[beckdg]

"and they called it puppy love"... in my best frank sinatra/chalk board squeaking rendition. obviously now the peace pipe's empty... lol.

thanks... always cool to get breeding pics.