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Draco volans (Flying Dragons)

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Well, I'm happy to say that I think this is the year I'm finally going to establish a group of Dracos!!! On Friday I hand-picked some Dracos at a local importers, I usually would have to order them sight unseen from FL. Crap would usually arrive, and I would start to have problems to then tackle from the start. Seems like this time I have 12 (2.10) Draco volans that are going to survive without a problem! Each one is eating and drinking up a storm. Not to mention how active they are. Constently giving wing/dewlap "signals" to each other and jumping all around the branches. I currently have them seperated out in 10 gallon aquariums, but I think I'll move them into large screen cages as time goes on. Several of the females are currently gravid, and I did see one scratch around in the peat moss this morning. Looks like I'll be getting some eggs soon! Have my hands crossed that they are fertile. I've been working with this genus for quite some time, and each year I've gotten closer to establishing these guys! Hopefully I'll pick a few more up short, including more males. I wasn't too sure on the species, but I keyed them out to Draco volans. I'll post pics and more info as it comes along.
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Justyn
 
Did You get them from US Globel?
 
I doubt I'll let any babies go until I get a colony of about 350 breeding adults going. Sounds high, but I really want to establish these guys in captivity before I sell any of them off.
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Justyn

Tokay_Dude said:
Good luck justyn, draco's are awesome, gonna let any babies go when the eggs hatch?
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yeah, i heard they were pretty hard to keep in captivity huh?

looks like your doing an awesome job though, keep up the great work
 
They are difficult to keep, but I believe that if you start out with healthy CBB specimens they will prove extremely easy to keep and breed. Only time will tell! I currently have nine eggs in the incubator and several more females will lay shortly. The next trick is inubation, and after that, successfully raising the newborn dracos to sexual maturity.


Tokay_Dude said:
yeah, i heard they were pretty hard to keep in captivity huh?

looks like your doing an awesome job though, keep up the great work
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Thank you all for your kind words, hopefullyt hsi turn out a success. Here is a pic of two of the eggs. Looks like I have 7 fertile eggs in total so far.

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