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| House cricket (Acheta
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| Visible calcium
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Female Agamura persica with dusted cricket. |
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| Female
Agamura persica drinking from a waterbowl. |
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:: Food
Agamura persica feed on a variety of insects
in the wild. When they're held in captivity they can be fed on different
insects that are found here. Appropriate prey items for Agamura persica
are: house crickets, waxworms (and the moths) and a variety of insects
found outside such as spiders and sow bugs or wood-louse. (House)crickets
are availiable in different sizes. Normally from size 3 to size 8. The
size of the cricket that is appropriate for the gecko, depends on the
size of the gecko. The cricket shouldn't be longer then the width of the
geckos head. Also mealworms can be part of the diet of Agamura
persica, but don't feed too much of them. They've got a hard shell
and are hard to digest for the geckos Overfeeding mealworms can
result in vomitting.
Waxworms should also be fed modestly. They contain lots of fat and sugar
and the Agamura can even become addicted to these worms.
I feed adult Agamura persica every other day and dust the
prey-items every other time with calcium and "Miner-All I".
This is a vitamin and mineral preparation with calcium and vitamin d3 in
the right dosage. However, don't use this preparation when you
provide your animals with daylight.
When female Agamura persica get more calcium then they need,
they store it in socalled endolymphatic calcium sacs¹.
When they store calcium in it, it's visible as a bulge on both sides of
the neck.
:: Water
Agamura persica obtain a lot of necessary
water out of their preys. However, this is not enough for the geckos to
meet their entire needs. Therefore you need to spray the enclosure of
the Agamura once a week. A silk-screen plant in the enclosure
provides a surface for water to collect for the geckosto drink.
Never spray the geckos when it's visible that they're going to shed. The
old, loose skin will stick to the gecko and he will have a hard
time getting it of. Sometimes the gecko won't be able to get it of and
you then need to help him, causing him a lot of stress.
Also as a precaution,
keep a water dish in the enclosure. Agamura
rarely use a dish to drink from, but when the geckos are in need of water, it's
always available. Don't forget to refresh the water every
day.
¹
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Article discussion: Extracranial
Endolymfatic Sacs in Eurydactylodes. Consulted April 28th 2008,
http://www.rhacodactylus.nl/Eurydactylodes/artikel bespreking.php

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