New Scale Herpetoculture

New Scale Herpetoculture Geckos and other reptilia from around the world. (Eric Nielsen) Pretty lowkey collection these days - primarily Cordylus tropidosternum and Ebenavia.

Neither are well established in the hobby, so the vast majority of what I produce ends up going to other capable keepers with existing groups. I don't foresee much being listed publicly for a good while, but I hope to contribute to both becoming established, and will open things up to more public offerings at that time. Might be a minute.

And then there were two. Or, four?Ebenavia hatchling #2, sibling to the one from 1.5 weeks ago, was found in with its ...
06/10/2026

And then there were two. Or, four?

Ebenavia hatchling #2, sibling to the one from 1.5 weeks ago, was found in with its parents tonight, which is wild - I don’t have that enclosure baby-proofed, since I’ve always pulled eggs and incubated them separately, and hatchlings are TINY. I’ve seen one escape through deli cup holes before! Kinda hard to plan around containing babies that tiny in an adult enclosure. I’ve been working with this genus since 2014, but this is the very first clutch I’ve ever missed that’s successfully hatched in with the adults.

And, to top it off, I found the next clutch nestled away under a piece of cork bark (in my experience, Ebenavia never bury their eggs).

An all-around good day for tiny brown geckos.

Itty bitty F1 CBB hatchling Ebenavia sp. (“Madagascan clawless gecko”) found yesterday.Ebenavia kids come sharply dresse...
06/01/2026

Itty bitty F1 CBB hatchling Ebenavia sp. (“Madagascan clawless gecko”) found yesterday.

Ebenavia kids come sharply dressed.

A lucky through-the-glass shot of one of the yearling F1 CBB Cordylus tropidosternum (“tropical girdled lizards) from la...
05/29/2026

A lucky through-the-glass shot of one of the yearling F1 CBB Cordylus tropidosternum (“tropical girdled lizards) from last year’s litter.

Side note: I have a couple 2025 offspring that I’d be open to booking flights for, if anyone’s on the market. It looked to be a pair at last check-in, though they are full siblings. Shoot me a message if you’d like to discuss it more.

Despite it looking more like 0.0.0 in the photo, this enclosure houses a 1.2.4 family group of Cordylus tropidosternum (...
11/06/2025

Despite it looking more like 0.0.0 in the photo, this enclosure houses a 1.2.4 family group of Cordylus tropidosternum (“tropical girdled lizards). They spook easier than those fainting goats.

Lucky through-the-glass shot of one of the 4.5-month-olds from this spring’s litter of Cordylus tropidosternum (“tropica...
09/07/2025

Lucky through-the-glass shot of one of the 4.5-month-olds from this spring’s litter of Cordylus tropidosternum (“tropical girdled lizards”). This batch of kids has been growing like weeds, and all are already around half-grown. Bonkers.

The official term for a litter of Cordylus tropidosternum is an “entirely unreasonable amount of judgment”.I decided.
08/12/2025

The official term for a litter of Cordylus tropidosternum is an “entirely unreasonable amount of judgment”.

I decided.

So big already, and already so very smug.F1 CBB Cordylus tropidosternum (“tropical girdled lizard”)**NFS**
08/02/2025

So big already, and already so very smug.

F1 CBB Cordylus tropidosternum (“tropical girdled lizard”)

**NFS**

Some species’ children’s arrivals you have to wait a couple months for. Some you even have to wait a whole year for. C...
04/26/2025

Some species’ children’s arrivals you have to wait a couple months for. Some you even have to wait a whole year for. Cordylus tropidosternum (“tropical girdled lizards”) typically only reproduce every TWO years or so. Combine that with producing live-born litters without ever looking undeniably preggo, and it’s a crapshoot. Ya just cool em in the winter and hope you see babies sometime in the mid-late spring.

Produced my very first litters in 2020, produced my next in 2022, and last year I got NOTHING. I thought I screwed up my recipe, or that perhaps they were just plain getting old (they were already adults when i got them back in 2015).

I’d never had babies drop after late March, so as April cruised in I assumed I missed the mark yet again. Then, while feeding some folks, I noticed one of them had shrunk. Then I saw another, and boy, at that point I started to wonder if maybe my adults were the same size still. Hmmmm.

Dug apart their cluttered digs and found a total of four fresh CBB tropidosternum (with their regular-sized parents). After a mere three year wait.

Good fu***ng day!

[sigh]Not stuck.Not dead.Just weird.Cordylus tropidosternum“Tropical Girdled Lizard”
04/22/2025

[sigh]

Not stuck.
Not dead.
Just weird.

Cordylus tropidosternum
“Tropical Girdled Lizard”

Paroedura ibityensis (“Ibity Mt. Ground Gecko”).Despite the genus Paroedura being collectively known as “ground geckos”,...
10/20/2024

Paroedura ibityensis (“Ibity Mt. Ground Gecko”).

Despite the genus Paroedura being collectively known as “ground geckos”, they’re rarely found on the ground. P. ibityensis are found primarily on rock outcroppings on Mt. Ibity and Mt. Itremo in central Madagascar.

Barring any potential future waves of imports, this species has mostly disappeared from herpetoculture. I haven’t bred them in years, but produced dozens of them during that time. They’re an incredibly cool, surprisingly hardy species. This guy was the last unsold ibityensis in my collection - I kept him around as a retiree, but am still very open to sending him off to anyone who might have a lone female or three. If there’s any hope for them, they could use any help they can get! If anyone out there needs him, I’d only ask that the shipping cost be covered.

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