Nephrurus is a genus of eleven spesies of geckos edemic to Australia. All but two of those can be found within WA. The genus is a medium sized gecko that inhabit ground level of arid to semi arid habitats. Some like levis and leavissimus only inhabits sandhabitats while others like amyae and sheai lives in stonegarvel areas. Below is pic of a typical levis habitat.

For shelter the nephrurus digs a hole in the sand or use other animals holes. A micro climate in the burrow is created by sealing the entrece of the hole. Below is a pic of a typical leavissimus hole, it turned out to be 1,2 meters deep!

In captivity we try to simulate the conditions in nature to create a optimum enviroment for the geckos. All nephrurus should be kept one and one. They tolerate each other with the exeption of males but itīs unnatural to keep them in pairs, trios etc. To make keeping efficiant and space saving I use racks. Pic below shows a part of my holdback-rack for yearlings.

I use sand as substrate in all the tubs for Nephrurus, even the ones like amyae who lives on a more stony substrate in nature. One warm and one cold side is created by a heating-mat at the back of the tub. Temps during season are about 25C on the cool side and 32C at the warm. I use two hides in every tub, one at the warm and one at the cool side so the gecko can termoregelate and feel safe at the same time. Depending on the spices the cool side is kept a bit humid from time to time. During season I spray one side of the tub with water every other day, this is the only drinkingwater needed. Pic of the tub below.

Nephrurus amyae; This spices is a hardy gecko well siuted for a life in captivity. I keep my amyae very dry. Resent we have produced some cool line bred amyaes resulting in a hypo variation. First pic below is a orange and the second is a hypo

Nephrurus wheeleri cinctus; This spices also belongs to the rough-skins and are kept much like amyae.There is a second subspices of this gecko but up to this date itīs not in the trade as far as I knowe. A very forgiving, jet beutiful gecko.

Nephrurus leavissimus; Leavissimus have become a trademark for Pitbullgeckos. I have some of the best lines avalible after crossing old lines from US. This gecko is concidered to be a demanding nephrurus but our leavissimus are hardy and aggresive feeders from day one. Ofcourse one have to follow the rules of leavissimus keeping, but if you do that there will be no big problems

Nephrurus deleani;  Deleani orgins from South Australia and inhabits a very limited area. We work with two lines of this wouderful gecko. The juvenile color of deleani are amazing!

Nephrurus stellatus; Now THIS is a demanding gecko. We have had a hard time breeding those geckos, so far only a few hatchlings have seen the light of my hatchlingroom. On the other hand,,,,,,this is a amazing gecko that becomes electric at night with the colors of the rainbow.

Nephrurus verebralis; Mid Western Australia is the home of those geckos.The verts are some heavy feeders compared to most knobtails. Still very seldom seen in the hobby. We are lucky to have a small stock, below is a 3 month old juvenile from 2010.

Nephrurus levis; There are supposed to be three subspices of this gecko, levis, pilbarensis and occidentalis. I have seen pilbarensis and occidentalis in the wild and there is no way I could tell them apart just by looking at them. The only thing that differs is the orgin of the subspeices. So if someone wants to sell you a occidentalis ask how they knowe itīs that subspices so the just donīt dobble the price for a levis levis. At the moment we are working only with red levis.