These are just some pics of the Leopard Geckos that I now have.
I started with 1 Juvenile/adult (not sure if it's really an adult yet) about a week ago, and yesterday I picked up 2 babies. I also moved up from a 10 Gallon regular tank, to a 20 gallon long tank and some nicer accessories. Everything looks much nicer in person, but here are some pics.
ok now the geckos. They seem to get along with each other just fine. They like to stay hidden most of the time, and with the babies being so small, it makes it difficult to catch a pic. I will take them out for a moment and photograph them that way too. but for now.
Hope you don’t mind a picture of my little fella. I just took this picture today of my Viper Gecko. My girlfriend’s kids insisted I take one of the babies from their adult breeding pair. He was half this size when I got him six months ago.
I heard that a certain insurance company has a sales job that suddenly became available.... J/K! I have hundreds of anole lizards around the house and yard. They are fascinating to watch. Just like little bitty dinosaurs! Great photos, Gecko.
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Quality isn't the greatest on this pic but I had to take it quick before they moved. The net is pretty high up since I rearranged everything and the adult usually likes to go and stay up there. Here is one pic of the adult seeing the baby stealing the spot, and then both sharing it.
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Posts: 1891 From: Greenville S.C. Registered: Jun 2003
Using a net for the geckos to bask closer to the "sunlight" is something I hadn't seen before. Years ago I used to have anoles, and they didn't have any trouble getting closer to the light at the top of the tank all on their own.
Do your geckos not like using "hot hocks", or are these heated rocks not favored and/or used by reptile owners any more?
Their insurance rates are very high (well atleast for me) lol.
The red light is only for nighttime, and is usually when they come out being they are nocturnal. So maybe they will only be partially evil.
Leopard Gecko's don't have the webbed feet like many other lizards so they can't climb glass. They have a heating pad below the tank in one corner, and the heatlights above the tank. I don't use the heat rocks because I have read that often they can be bad for this type of gecko.
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fierogtowner Member
Posts: 1610 From: Tampa, Florida, United States of America Registered: Aug 2005
I used to own 5 of them when I was 11 or 12 (6 or so years ago). They were actually shared between me and a best friend at the time, and when he moved away I let him take them. They're awesome, and easy to care to for. I'm thinking about getting another one or two.
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84fiero123 Member
Posts: 29950 From: farmington, maine usa Registered: Oct 2004
Yes they seem to be pretty healthy(fat) without being obese at all. I have read so much on feeding them crickets/mealworms or both, or just one choice etc.. I decided to stick with just mealworms this time around and it seems to have wonderful results. They always have a supply of mealworms in a bowl. I occasionally give them a treat, which is wax worms. They really love those.
Like many animals there are a lot of different types of geckos. Mine are Leopard Geckos and are probably one of the easiest to take care of.
"The leopard gecko, (Eublepharis macularius), is an ideal pet that takes up little space, has simple food requirements, comes in designer colors and patterns and can withstand the life dealt out by even the most absent-minded of keepers. They are excitable as babies, but harmless, and as adults they become very tame; taking food from your fingers"
Mine have always been tame enough to take food right from my fingers, and will usually come right to my hand as soon as I put it in the tank, because they will think I have food (even if I am just trying to move something or fill the water bowl etc...) If you put your face by the tank they will come over and look at you as well.
However none of the 3 like to be handled or picked up and squirm around a bit the longer you hold them. They will eventually squirm hard enough to throw themselves/jump from your hand with no thought to how far they might fall or where. If I handled them more on a regular basis then they would probably get used to me and stop this but I don't do it because I dont like to bother them, and because if they do get away from me there are way to many places for them to run and hide, plus there is a cat here as well. The cat is actually pretty decent and only goes by them if he knows your not around. He will not meow at them, or swat at them or anything, he just likes to watch them incase they were to get out. Then his intentions would probably change. Its not to often that he gets to see them because they are a few feet off the ground, and I usually keep enough things in the cats pathway that he can't get close to them, plus they are partially covered when I am not here/sleeping etc...
Geico. I do like their commercials, they use a few different kinds depending on what commercial you see. When they show the one in the desert setting doing the eyeball lick, that is the kind I have.
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This is a two-week old Viper Gecko (younger sibling of the one I posted earlier in this thread) which I noticed was staring intently at something outside it’s tank. It turned out to be a tiny “jumping” spider which was just wandering around on top of the desk. This isn’t the best quality picture, but I was rushed as this was NOT a staged shot (and I was using a camera not familiar to me). It was really funny because the spider was circling the tank and stopping to look at the gecko which was following it. I’m not 100% sure who was stalking who!
Keep in mind this gecko is less than an inch long!
I used to have anoles years ago and I quite enjoyed them. They were always active and entertaining. I had one fella for about six years, which I gather is quite old for an anole!
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Posts: 29569 From: Detroit, MI Registered: Jul 2002
good stuff I used to have a gecko tank & quite a few gecko's was a 120 gal tank - more of a terrarium. all plants in it were live. had a 5 gallon pond on one side - which had a crayfish/crawdad/whatever, which would go up and bury itself in the dirt. the geckos would love to go down into the crayfish hole. at one time it had 3 Fat tail geckos (Hydra, Matic & Muncie), 2 Leopard geckos (Chucky & Tommy), 2 Golden geckos (Hector & Consielo), 1 Marble gecko ('Zilla) there were a couple of other leopards that didnt make it - some to small, and got eaten, other just got bullied, and stopped eating one of the marbles escaped - not sure how it got out, or where it went - but I bet the cats enjoyed it Hydra was the bully of the ground gecko's (fattail & leopard) and Hector was the bully of the wallwalking geckos there was some mating - I found eggs - but none ever managed to hatch. I kept a 20 gallon tank in the basement to keep crickets, which I bought in boxes of 500 or 1000 - 500 in summer, 1000 in winter - they STINK, so I kept the smaller amount in the summer to clean the cricket cage more often.... the tanks lasted 3 years - then there was a sudden wave of doom - not sure what it was, probably some kind of disease, but they stopped eating - one at a time. the bulk of the tank is still in my room, got the dirt out, disaasembled the hoods, to scavenge the lighting system, heating system & sprinkler system I built into the hoods. the lighting system is 3 pairs of 24" floursecent grow lights, heating system is a thermostat controlling ceramic heating bulbs, with fans behind them, and the sprinkler is a aqaurium powerhead pumping into 6 FIERO windshield washer nozzles really wish I had pic's - I am/was proud of the tank I made. in the 5 gallon water section, I had built a fountain. hard to explain, but: The"Lord of the Ring - Fellowship of the Ring" collector DVDs came with a pair of bookends - which were of the two big statues near the end of that movie, with a river between them. I fiberglassed them together, painted it up, and made that my fountain, with the waterfall coming down between them. if it wasnt for the crickets, I probably would have kept the tank up - but the crickets stank to keep, and to much a pain in the ass to buy as needed - 3 dozen every other day...ug....
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Posts: 10199 From: Ticlaw FL, and some other places. Registered: Aug 2001
Everything I have read and been told says that you can not mix leopard geckos with other types of geckos. Also your not supposed to have more then 1 male because they will fight. However you can have 1 male and plenty of females. I guess with a tank as large as you had maybe they stayed far enough away from each other.
The plants I have are fake lol. They only eat live food such as crickets/meal worms.
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Posts: 10199 From: Ticlaw FL, and some other places. Registered: Aug 2001
The plants I have are fake lol. They only eat live food such as crickets/meal worms.
Of course they are. Any fool can see that. (nudge nudge, wink wink) Heres the classic lizard joke - stop me if you've heard this one:
One day a little lizard was walking past a tree and there was baboon sitting in the branch smoking pot.
Baboon: "Hey lizard come and join me up here in the tree!"
So lizard climbs up the tree and joins the baboon. After a while both of them were seeing fairies and things started to move slowly and lizard says: "Damn I am thirsty! Gonna go for a drink!"
And lizard went to the river for a drink. As he drinks a crocodile pops up and sees lizard is stoned. And crocodile asks : "Lizard, What ya up to?"
Lizard: "Yo croc! I been smoking pot with baboon in that tree."
Crocodile: "This I got to see!"
So crocodile comes out of the river and stands under the tree where baboon was still smoking pot.
Crocodile "Yo baboon!!!"
Baboon turns, looks down, and nearly falls out of the tree in astonishment. Then he says "LIZARD! HOW MUCH WATER DID YOU DRINK???!!!!"
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Patrick Member
Posts: 36401 From: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Registered: Apr 99
I've been looking after my girlfriend's kids geckos for the past week while they've been out of town, and this morning Momma gecko laid two more eggs. (That's about ten or so this year.) Usually she goes into her little hut and lays them, but this time she laid them out in the open in the corner of the tank. The really weird thing is that Momma has stayed with the eggs all day. So far it's been ten hours. The other odd thing is that Poppa gecko has stayed in the little hut all day and he usually never stays in there. Strange going ons...
This is the momma of all the Viper geckos I've previously posted images of here.
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Patrick Member
Posts: 36401 From: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Registered: Apr 99
I found out why Momma gecko was hanging around the two eggs she laid this morning - she had two more to lay! Now this is really strange because she has never laid more than two eggs at once before. Then it takes from three to four weeks for the next couple of eggs. She's now laid four eggs in less than 24 hours. No wonder she was still bulging in the pictures I posted above.
I was able to watch her lay the eggs this time (for the first time ever). The egg pops out and she sort of catches it with her hind feet which are under her anal area. She then rotates the egg over and over and over between her feet, much the same way we'd rotate a softball held between our hands. Then she uses her feet to gently place the egg out of the way to make room for the next one. I guess I'm easily amused, but I find this all very fascinating.
