Help in sexing B.jacksonis. (read mike's guide but there seems to be a prob with my pair)

Ok. A non-related question, have you noticed a color difference in sub-adults and adults?

Not really, no.

Subadult female, adult male:


I guess the male is a little duller-colored.

Adult female and male:


The male is still a tad on the dull side.

Looking at your original pictures, I'd say at least one (possibly both) are in premolt, so we'll find out soon.

My larger specimen is on the dull side as opposed to the smaller but much brighter specimen.

From the first picture, I can see that both of them are housed together which means you kept sub-adults and adults communally?

Actually, I didn't realize the females were subadult until after one molted.

No cannibalisms, though -- one died mysteriously (), one died of mycosis, and the other is still alive (but my male died; hopefully they mated while they were together for two weeks).

Yeah, I had bad luck with this species when they got close to maturity. They did great when they were young, though!

Ah, how many Jacksonis do you have at the moment and do you have any idea what their lifespan is like?

I'm down to my one mature female -- I don't know the lifespan, but I got her as either a 2I or 3I just over a year ago.

When did she hit maturity then? Might be able to conjure a rough possibility of its lifespan.

February 21st.

The male was mature for about seven moths before he died -- he matured at the end of August last year.

And I assume you got him together with the female which was early last year? Pretty rapid growth rate I would say.

Yeah, the male matured about three and a half months after I got him -- but he may have been one of the 3Is.

Cool. Now I know that females take 6 more months to mature compared to males.

Yep! It's that last molt that takes forever.