Thank you all so much for the nice comments!!!
You enjoy doing this to us don't you Lars
Showing us all these beautiful animals we can't have.
No no Ben, I know that many members love to see the animals of the overseas members,
and that's the reason why I wanna share some pics with you guys!!!
I do not intend to make you jealous, trust me!!!
a better question is how do you get them!!??
Yes, unfortunately you can't get them in Australia!
But they were very rare in Europe too!
They were described in 1991 and when the first geckos came to Europe,
the price for a pair was around the 750 Australian Dollars!!! :shock:
But fortunately they are very common now in Germany and the price for juveniles
is around the 45 $ and so they are available for everybody!
We have a Day Gecko Association here in Germany, called IG Phelsuma.
There are around 180 members, even from the USA, and they breed around
500 Phelsuma klemmeri every year!
That's the main interest of the IG Phelsuma, two prevent the import of wild caught Phelsuma species!!!
The Phelsuma klemmeri are now the most popular day gecko, because you can
keep them in small groups and they are the most active day geckos.
Also their colours don't fade and they have always the nice colouration.
The most other captive-bred day gecko species don't show so brilliant colours like
in the wilderness!
they are really nice looking gex, but all you envious people look at some of our stuff, I've seen dark blue with yellow marbled velvet geckos (under bark at Blair Athol) our frillys are highly sought after all over the world, thorny devils are the most gorgeous little things ever, painted dragons and nobbis are quite bright. This is just to name a few lizards, then look at our snakes.
Yes, Steve, I totally agree with you!!!!!!!!!
Australia has such an amazing and awesome fauna!!!
And many of your fantastic herps are very very rare overseas!!!
For example, the Varanus spenceri, which costs a few hundred Dollars here,
costs around 12.500 $ in Europe!!! (speaking of a small juvenile!)
I would love to keep a shingleback, but they are very rare and when you have the
chance to get one, then you have to pay a price of 1.600 $ for a single male and
around the 4.700 $ for a pair!!!
And don't forget:
You guys live on the (in my opinion) most stunning and beautiful,....(I don't find
the right words to explain how awesome this continent really is!) continent!!!!!!!
So I would say that there's really no reason for anybody to be jealous!!!
Many people here in Europe are saying that Australia is the land of their dreams, including me!!!