Today it became fashionable to keep in quality of pets of various exotic animals and reptiles, including lizards. Besides tropical types, hold also ordinary sand lizards especially as with their feeding of special efforts does not arise. And how to breed lizards?
How to breed sand lizards
The sand lizard becomes mature and capable to postponement of eggs at the age of 2 years. As soon as the molt period ended, and males got bright, marriage coloring, place them to females. If males begin to rise on forepaws, showing the throat and a belly painted in bright colors and to shake the head, then it means that they are ready to pairing.Females also answer with various movements of the head and tail, however some individuals can show and disagreement, threatening a male with an open mouth. Anyway, if the male overtook a female and, holding her teeth, entered gemipenis, then in 55-65 days after pairing the female will start postponement of eggs and it is necessary to be prepared for this process. For this purpose it is required deep a ditch, filled with soft damp soil. It can be prepared if to mix the earth with sand or sand with coconut substrate or vermiculite with coconut substrate where the female will postpone a laying and will bury it. After a laying is withdrawn and located in an incubator where constant temperature in 27-29os is maintained. Usually the amount of eggs in a laying varies from 3 to 16 pieces from which in 40-55 days kids will hatch. They will begin to eat usual food after assimilation of a zheltochny stock. At cultivation of sand lizards it is necessary to remember that the female can postpone two layings during the season, and then the first issue will appear in July-August, and the second in September-October. The period of pairing falls on March-April and can repeat in July-August. Sperm can is long to remain in an organism of a female and to be used for fertilization of the eggs laid in a new season.
How to part tropical types
As soon as the female laid eggs in a terrarium, they need to be taken and put to the separate box. Important: shifting eggs, it is necessary to try not to shake them and not to overturn and it is desirable to number a marker. That is the provision of a laying should not change as in turned top by a bottom egg the embryo can die. As a laying for eggs it is necessary to use warm and moderately damp soil, but not wet. As for eggs of lizards of a gecko, it is not possible to move them because of very soft cover therefore the laying needs just to be protected a wire protection. As soon as kids are born, settle them in a separate terrarium.