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Barking Gecko Anonymous
Okay, I've ended up with two Indonesian Barking Geckos. I am fairly certain (but am happy to be corrected) that these are the same species known worldwide as simply 'House Geckos'. These are a feral, highly invasive species with the unfortunate habit of shitting everywhere, especially in your clothes, the dirty little bastards. However, despite the shitting and the fact that a good environmentalist would kill them to make room for native species, these are so damn cute that I was quite incapable of killing the blasted things.

So I've got them in a largish plastic container, until I can get into the city and get a decent tank on the weekend. I've bought a container of small crickets, which the feral shitting cute little bastards are happily devouring one by one. I've had one for three weeks, another for three days. Both of them are fat, still alive, have ravenous appetites and have not shed their tails despite their traumatic capture.

Four things:

1.) A recommended substrate. I've got them on some rounded gravel because I've read that lizards will sometime eat loose substrate. I've no doubt that this is incorrect and woefully inadequate.

2.) How often should I be feeding them? Literature suggests every day or second day. Personal experience of watching them on my veranda light suggests that the greedy little vermin will eat what ever they can stuff in their gob.

3.) Feeder Crickets For Idiots. Whenever I open the container the little insects flee for their tiny lives. Is there a simple way of handling them that simple people like myself can manage? They go everywhere!

4.) When I get the tank, what's a simple way of stopping the geckos from legging it whenever I open it to clean it?

I know nothing about reptiles. This is obvious. But anon has to start somewhere, and being merciful to vermin is a better place than most.
>> anon
1. Newspaper is fine.

2. I'd go with what the literature suggests.

3. Open the cricket container inside the gecko tank when you get it. If they jump out, they'll be jumping right where you want em.

4. Have a hide box / cave / whatever that they'll instinctively run into instead of trying to jump out of the tank.
>> Anonymous
CHIK CHIK CHIK CHIK CHIK CHIK
>> Anonymous
Yeah I love these bastards as well, like OP said, they shit everywhere. Plus side, they hunt down all cockroaches in my house...funny thing is, they only nom the roaches' head.

I have sighted a king size one, only come out at night and rest on outside of my window panel. From head to tail about 10 inches. I failed few times to capture the king. It always scurries away on slightest vibration D: