Anybody know anything about the care of them? I found one yesterday just outside my front door...I have it in a container currently with some grass and leaves and some water......just don't know what to feed it and how to really make sure it's okay. I was just going to keep it until Monday when I could take it to show my class, but then I told DH about it and he's like "It's our first pet, you have to find out how to take care of it! But it a real gecko container! Do what you have to do, it doesn't matter how much it costs!"

Eeek! They're all over here and we often have several in the house. I don't know what they like but they freak me out. :shock They like to hide in the shower behind shampoo bottles I know that much. :lol

Well, they eat live bugs. Live crickets you can buy at petsmart but you have to get the right size or they won't eat. They also have to be calcium powdered or the geckos bones will get bendy. They needs stable moisture, as well as a stable heat source. The don't eat grass or leaves just live things. Blood worms are good, as well as meely worms. Again, still alive. You can order them online, they are hard to buy in a store. But you have to be able to care for and keep the worms alive b/c you can only buy them in 100s and a single gecko won't eat them fast enough. They need clean water typically in a sandstone flat bowl b/c they can fall in and drown. And also appreciate being able to perch, typically a choya limb is the best b/c it holds moisture. One gecko should probably have a 10 gallon or larger tank / enclosure.

Heck fire...that's a lot of care for a little thing, mostly when I definitely don't like the idea of worms! This one is just a baby I'm guessing....it may just be like...2-3 inches long. My uncle questioned me on if it really was a gecko or not.....but I don't know what else it would be! Thanks for all of the info....we may be having a little talk with DH and releasing it back into freedom after all!

If it's small and a greenish color with white on the belly, a pointed face and eyes on the upper part of the head.... it's an anole. Not a gecko. Where are you located??

It could also be brown b/c they love to change color to their surroundings.

Well, they eat live bugs. Live crickets you can buy at petsmart but you have to get the right size or they won't eat. They also have to be calcium powdered or the geckos bones will get bendy. They needs stable moisture, as well as a stable heat source. The don't eat grass or leaves just live things. Blood worms are good, as well as meely worms. Again, still alive. You can order them online, they are hard to buy in a store. But you have to be able to care for and keep the worms alive b/c you can only buy them in 100s and a single gecko won't eat them fast enough. They need clean water typically in a sandstone flat bowl b/c they can fall in and drown. And also appreciate being able to perch, typically a choya limb is the best b/c it holds moisture. One gecko should probably have a 10 gallon or larger tank / enclosure.

Yea...thats perfect advice...we had them when i was little. Kinda off topic but i remember one day my mom made my peanut butter sandwich for lunch...she switched to crunchy peanut butter but i didn't know and thought some of the crickets accidently escaped and made their way into my peanut butter...it was funny. Anyway, definately make sure about the heat, just like other lizards/snakes they need a constant temp to thrive. Hope you have fun with them!

Yea...thats perfect advice...we had them when i was little. Kinda off topic but i remember one day my mom made my peanut butter sandwich for lunch...she switched to crunchy peanut butter but i didn't know and thought some of the crickets accidently escaped and made their way into my peanut butter...it was funny. Anyway, definately make sure about the heat, just like other lizards/snakes they need a constant temp to thrive. Hope you have fun with them!

:lmao I would have freaked ... I hated when the crickets would get out. My cats went nuts and my kid went nuts. And well I'm NOT a big bug fan, so to be breeding them was awful!!

Does it look like this?
http://images.wildmadagascar.org/pictures/berenty/gecko_0010.jpg


OMG, just searching for pics on google gives me the heebie jeebies :lol

:lmao I would have freaked ... I hated when the crickets would get out. My cats went nuts and my kid went nuts. And well I'm NOT a big bug fan, so to be breeding them was awful!!


yea...i got home (mind you i was like 6 or 7) and totally started crying telling my mom to never have the gecko aquarium on the counter again while shes making my sandwich cause the crickets got in and she was like what? we got it cleared up but it was pretty bad. now its hilarious...but then...scary! lol

yea...i got home (mind you i was like 6 or 7) and totally started crying telling my mom to never have the gecko aquarium on the counter again while shes making my sandwich cause the crickets got in and she was like what? we got it cleared up but it was pretty bad. now its hilarious...but then...scary! lol

:lmao You poor thing... we had aquariums everywhere at one point. Treefrogs, lizards, snakes, you name it. And there were always crickets in some tank b/c they never ate them all. The cats were the alarm system. If they went nutty, there was one out! :lol I never ended up with any in my food, however I did have them in my bed once. THAT was bad enough.

:lmao You poor thing... we had aquariums everywhere at one point. Tree frogs, lizards, snakes, you name it. And there were always crickets in some tank b/c they never ate them all. The cats were the alarm system. If they went nutty, there was one out! :lol I never ended up with any in my food, however I did have them in my bed once. THAT was bad enough.

OH MY GOD. Tree frogs creep me out more than geckos. Once I waited outside for an hour because there was one on the door knob to get inside the house. They're small & sticky & like to jump on people. :refuse

OH MY GOD. Tree frogs creep me out more than geckos. Once I waited outside for an hour because there was one on the door knob to get inside the house. They're small & sticky & like to jump on people. :refuse

Yes, yes they do. However I love love love frogs. I had 11 treefrogs at one point, and they would escape and just be flipping all over the house... you'd have died :lol

My DH would bring them in the house and let them jump all over. :sigh

Of course I'd be locked in the bathroom asking if it was outside yet. :lol

My DH would bring them in the house and let them jump all over. :sigh

Of course I'd be locked in the bathroom asking if it was outside yet. :lol

:lmao
They really are harmless though, you know this??
And they aren't sticky, it's just the cuppies on their toes.

I knowwww! It just the whole jumping on me. The whole beady eyes. Ughhh, I'm getting chicken skin just thinking about them! :sigh

:lmao You're not the only one that tells me that. I have a friend that wouldn't come into my back livingroom, she'd stand in the front room door waiting for one to get her. She just recently wigged b/c I updated my myspace page with frogs, and it's just a picture!!! :lol

I'm in west Texas....let me go take a gander at the thing again. Okay, it's very very light green, and almost yellowish-white on the stomach.

when i was a baby, my parents had multiple snakes..yea aquariums everywhere....losts of extension cords for heat lamps...everyone thought they were crazy but i liked it!

I'm in west Texas....let me go take a gander at the thing again. Okay, it's very very light green, and almost yellowish-white on the stomach.That I would guess is an anole. They are really sweet... they like live bugs and wormies too though.

when i was a baby, my parents had multiple snakes..yea aquariums everywhere....losts of extension cords for heat lamps...everyone thought they were crazy but i liked it!
My son has been begging for me to get my 'zoo' back b/c we pcs'd and couldn't move everyone with us. He loved bringing his friends in to see all the 'creepies'. I miss my zoo... :(

I'm in west Texas....let me go take a gander at the thing again. Okay, it's very very light green, and almost yellowish-white on the stomach.

hmmm...that could be an anole..let me find a picture of one...

Okay....if DH was here, I would say have at the little guy, make him a home....but since he is nearly 2 thousand miles away...I may commit my first and only lie to the guy and tell him he got away. I'm not a lizard person of any kind....I was really just going to show my students and then let him go. I feel bad for the guy, I think I'll have his official release party tomorrow prior to the Super Bowl. Yall are all invited!

anole:
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/images/reptiles/green_anole07.jpg

Okay....if DH was here, I would say have at the little guy, make him a home....but since he is nearly 2 thousand miles away...I may commit my first and only lie to the guy and tell him he got away. I'm not a lizard person of any kind....I was really just going to show my students and then let him go. I feel bad for the guy, I think I'll have his official release party tomorrow prior to the Super Bowl. Yall are all invited!

Well you can take him in to your students on Monday, they'd get a kick out of him. He'll survive a few nights without eating they have a good belly backup. Just make sure he can get fresh water, and not drowned. You can mist leaves with water so it beads, then he can just suck it up without risking him falling into water. :)

That I would guess is an anole. They are really sweet... they like live bugs and wormies too though.


My son has been begging for me to get my 'zoo' back b/c we pcs'd and couldn't move everyone with us. He loved bringing his friends in to see all the 'creepies'. I miss my zoo... :(

Yea, I liked it...gave me character..lol. They had an eastern milksnake among others...Many people were afraid it was gonna eat me..lol...i was an odd little kid though..but the memories sure last! And now im not scared of snakes when i go to my cousin's house in Tennessee. We dont exactly encounter many snakes in Maryland

K....poor little guy would go through an identity crisis anyhow if we kept him. Me, thinking he was a gecko and all, asked DH to name him...and he oh so uniquely named him Geiko....Poor thing.

Yea, I liked it...gave me character..lol. They had an eastern milksnake among others...Many people were afraid it was gonna eat me..lol...i was an odd little kid though..but the memories sure last! And now im not scared of snakes when i go to my cousin's house in Tennessee. We dont exactly encounter many snakes in Maryland

It does give kids character. My son is a BUG HUNTER!!! He loves searching for them and looking at them under the magnifying glass container I bought for him. He loves snakes and reps of all kinds. And he's not afraid of any animal. B/c well we had our fair share of furry ones too. We had a baby cornsnake and a 4 ft Ball python, she was a doll. :D

You're so making me miss my wee ones!! LOL

K....poor little guy would go through an identity crisis anyhow if we kept him. Me, thinking he was a gecko and all, asked DH to name him...and he oh so uniquely named him Geiko....Poor thing.

:lmao

I'm sure he wouldn't notice. We had a boy anole that my son named "sally".

:lmao

I'm sure he wouldn't notice. We had a boy anole that my son named "sally".

Thanks for all of your knowledgeable advice....you proved more informative than Google did this evening!

It does give kids character. My son is a BUG HUNTER!!! He loves searching for them and looking at them under the magnifying glass container I bought for him. He loves snakes and reps of all kinds. And he's not afraid of any animal. B/c well we had our fair share of furry ones too. We had a baby cornsnake and a 4 ft Ball python, she was a doll. :D

You're so making me miss my wee ones!! LOL

Haha...nothing wrong with bug hunters! that is adorable. I really wish we would get some reptiles again..i gorgot how much fun it was! We had an albino cornsnake!! it was a baby too. We also had a baby leopard gecko...but it died..and we could never figure out if it was a girl or a boy so we just called it baby...lol

Thanks for all of your knowledgeable advice....you proved more informative than Google did this evening!

Anytime, I"m happy to help with little beings, I'm sort of that crazy cat lady with all the creepy critters :D

Haha...nothing wrong with bug hunters! that is adorable. I really wish we would get some reptiles again..i gorgot how much fun it was! We had an albino cornsnake!! it was a baby too. We also had a baby leopard gecko...but it died..and we could never figure out if it was a girl or a boy so we just called it baby...lol

Geckos are always hard to sex. I suck at sexing reps. Now my Dh he's a whiz. Don't know how, but he does. If it doesn't have fuzzy little dangly bits, it's all male to me!! :lol

And you're right there's nothing wrong with his bug addiction. It's going to come in very handy for him when he gets into science fairs and show and tell for school. He'll have the COOLEST S&T's.

Right now I just have a yellowbelly slider and 1 hermie, 3 cats and a dog. We've downsized!! :lol

Geckos are always hard to sex. I suck at sexing reps. Now my Dh he's a whiz. Don't know how, but he does. If it doesn't have fuzzy little dangly bits, it's all male to me!! :lol

And you're right there's nothing wrong with his bug addiction. It's going to come in very handy for him when he gets into science fairs and show and tell for school. He'll have the COOLEST S&T's.

Right now I just have a yellowbelly slider and 1 hermie, 3 cats and a dog. We've downsized!! :lol


us too...now we have 3 cats, 2 dogs, and 3 feeder fish cause i didn't want then to get eaten....well if you can call that downsizing..lol. Me and my animals are ridiculous

i found a gecko when i was younger and i being 7 put him in a hamster cage as a habitat well the spaces were big enough along the bottom and he got out and ate some ants my dad poisoned along the house and i found his lil body when we were moving like 3 months later :tears

i found a gecko when i was younger and i being 7 put him in a hamster cage as a habitat well the spaces were big enough along the bottom and he got out and ate some ants my dad poisoned along the house and i found his lil body when we were moving like 3 months later :tears

Oh no!! I hate childhood mistakes like that...like the time that we had some kind of annoying birds and one of them pecked the other one to death cause i ddnt know they had to be in separate cages and thought they were lonely...haha...didnt turn out too well..:duh

us too...now we have 3 cats, 2 dogs, and 3 feeder fish cause i didn't want then to get eaten....well if you can call that downsizing..lol. Me and my animals are ridiculous

Before we pcs'd here we had to find homes for everything.
We fostered (not that in 3 years we'll get them back lol)
1 Mini Dutch Lop
4 Kissing Gourami's
3 Crawfish
2 Apple Snails
1 Pleco
1 Ball Python
6 Treefrogs
and we released 3 Anoles.

What we kept, all rode in My Rodeo with me, and the 3 week old baby!! :lol Talk about a fun ride!!!

i found a gecko when i was younger and i being 7 put him in a hamster cage as a habitat well the spaces were big enough along the bottom and he got out and ate some ants my dad poisoned along the house and i found his lil body when we were moving like 3 months later :tears

Oh No!! Well, my mom washed my hamster in the washing machine b/c I put it in there for "safe keeping" to clean the cage. She didn't see him, dumped the laundry in and turned it on. It floated to the top in the rinse cycle. She found it when she went to add the softner. :shock

Before we pcs'd here we had to find homes for everything.
We fostered (not that in 3 years we'll get them back lol)
1 Mini Dutch Lop
4 Kissing Gourami's
3 Crawfish
2 Apple Snails
1 Pleco
1 Ball Python
6 Treefrogs
and we released 3 Anoles.

What we kept, all rode in My Rodeo with me, and the 3 week old baby!! :lol Talk about a fun ride!!!

wow...now you are my kind of lady!! :lol that is exactly like me.. we have had hamsters, rats(wonderful pets actually), birds, hermit crabs, fish, snakes, geckos, anoles, dogs, cats...prolly a few more i cant remember...i am just too much of a softy... by Pleco do you mean a Plecostomus(sp?) that algae eating fish??

wow...now you are my kind of lady!! :lol that is exactly like me.. we have had hamsters, rats(wonderful pets actually), birds, hermit crabs, fish, snakes, geckos, anoles, dogs, cats...prolly a few more i cant remember...i am just too much of a softy... by Pleco do you mean a Plecostomus(sp?) that algae eating fish??
Yes a Sailfin Plecostomus (sp) light brown with the darker spots with the huge fan on it's back. He's was my favorite.

I'm an incredible sucker for anything furry, or not. LOL Dh is also, it's a bad combination. We have had one of everything, and 78 of others. guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, a Rat (and I agree they are very sweet) 78 mice, we started off with food for the snakes, and well. They like to um, multiply. :lol I've had african macaws, wee little african sparrows, lizards, frogs, snakes, fish, eels, oh my.

I sort of sound like a whackjob huh!! :lol

I was THIS close to getting an alpaca, but we had to move. But when I get back to my house in NC I'm getting one!!

Yes a Sailfin Plecostomus (sp) light brown with the darker spots with the huge fan on it's back. He's was my favorite.

I'm an incredible sucker for anything furry, or not. LOL Dh is also, it's a bad combination. We have had one of everything, and 78 of others. guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, a Rat (and I agree they are very sweet) 78 mice, we started off with food for the snakes, and well. They like to um, multiply. :lol I've had african macaws, wee little african sparrows, lizards, frogs, snakes, fish, eels, oh my.

I sort of sound like a whackjob huh!! :lol

I was THIS close to getting an alpaca, but we had to move. But when I get back to my house in NC I'm getting one!!

haha...well we are like two peas in a pod then...well im off to bed with my merry ark of animals but i shall see you all soon!

I too am off to bed, my movie has ended and the wee-est one will be up soon!! G'night!!

Eeek! They're all over here and we often have several in the house. I don't know what they like but they freak me out. :shock They like to hide in the shower behind shampoo bottles I know that much. :lol

:lol The ones in my house don't hide in the shower!

Eeek! They're all over here and we often have several in the house. I don't know what they like but they freak me out. :shock They like to hide in the shower behind shampoo bottles I know that much. :lol

:sick :sick omg....