Hey these are some pics of my gex that i got a few weeks ago, just haven't had the time or the internet speed to get some pictures posted on the net. There are particularily for you netty with plenty more pics to come. The male is about twice the size of the female and has a regenerated tale while the female is the small one and has a completely intact tail. Both handle alright for gex but without a doubt the female handles better.

Nice Gex Gav! her tail is rather unusual imo, not alot of spots, looks intresting. can you get a closeup?
Make sure theres plenty of cool space, heatcord should be like just in under one corner. Im not even using any heat here now myself.
Might be ness in winter here you are though. make sure you have a hide at each end, one above the warm spot and one elsewhere.
see how they go next spring having spent winter with a warm spot,
general temps there will likely still be cool enough over wnter.
im going to cool ours this winter, no heat, see if production/fertility rate increases.
how do you find the mulch substrate? no problems with catching food/finding food with it? is it easy for cleaning with them?

Ive found ours all use the exact same corner for popping in, like a toilet spot, makes cleaning easier.

Keep us updated mate.

The substrate is Cob a Peat which is half ground coconut half eat moss and they have been fine with it. /the few times they have got it instead of the crix they just spat it out.

Re the hide I have one long piece of bark running the length of the cage which i took out to take these photos. I had two billabong style water bowls in there b4 but the crix kept on getting stuck in them so i now have one large really shallow water bowl in one corner. I am not heating them atm as it is too hot. My heatpad for my childreni is set to 31 and it never turns on cept at the coldest part of the night.

Mine all do turds in one side of theie enclosure as well. I cleaned it today and had to take it all out cause i knocked over a water bowl (stupid clutz). 'However what i normallly do is just scoop up a cm layer off the top and replace it. Cobapeat is pretty absorbent stuff.

I will have to heat mine over winter as we live in a primative house and have not heating or air conditioning. The fireplace is in the living room and doesn't really warm the house meaning it is feezing. We get below zero nights outside in the middle of winter so i don't thinl no heat will work.

Gav

LOl they dont have heat out in the bush in winter either gav! sometimes I think we coddle herps too much. See how they go but!

I would have to agree with you there Dan. We try to provide them with the most ideal environment possible as we don't want to harm our cherished pets. Most houses though need heating for their herps as they are air conditioned which drops the temperature heaps. In the wild herps have access to heat from the sun for a large period of time and can acess it as they wish. To simulate this in our enclosure we have to provide them with heat. In our enclosures we have to provide them their own "sun" be it a light bulb or a heatpad.

Gav