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They're not that sensitive about the tails. I have 4 cresties at the moment and all but one has tails. The one who doesn't have a tail lost it during mating a number of years ago. Aliza

Congrats on the gargs. Often they don't seem to be eating at all (I have some gargs and cresties I have almost never seen eating) but they end up doing OK, How tiny are the crickets? Even a baby garg can manage a 1/2" cricket and if you have really teeny ones they may be too small for them to...

19 in June, I think. Amazingly he still has his tail. Lack of tail is very common in crested geckos, Aliza

I had some leopard geckos on coco fiber for about 5 years and it was fine. When I kept Africa fat tail geckos they were always on coco fiber. Aliza

Oh, here's the picture! Cute gecko. Aliza

No need to be "professional" on this forum. Your enjoyment of Dusty comes through and that's always great to read. Pictures would be lovely. I got my first crested gecko when he was about a month old. That was in 2006 and Spencer is still with me. Aliza

There's no way to tell without seeing the whole gecko from the top. If you don't know which of the 3 albino strains your gecko is, there's no way to know which strain you're passing on to the offspring which becomes problematic when you try to describe the morph of the offspring. Aliza

If you mean the coco fiber that looks like dirt, that's not really a problem for an adult gecko. If you mean something that's got bark-like chunks (I don't think you do, given that it's coco fiber), that could be a problem. Aliza

In my experience it's not a problem for feeders to be around for awhile in a healthy gecko's tank. You're right that once the crickets are there for awhile they groom off the calcium. Hopefully he'll eventually get hungry enough to eat sooner. Aliza

The first one is an albino, though there's no way to tell which of the 3 strains. Based on the tail pattern it may be a stripe as well. The orange on the tail means it could be called a carrot tail, and the absence of body spots means it's a super hypo. You could also call it a patternless...

What substrate is she on? Aliza

She's an albino (no black pigment) though there's no way to be sure what strain. She's very marginally a "carrot tail" since there is some orange-ish coloring at the base of the tail. She no longer has any body spots so you could also call her a super-hypo. Sometimes these geckos were called...

Great! Hope it continues. Aliza

There's a good chance it has more eggs and will lay more. It would be great if you can find out from wherever you got it whether it's been with a male so you know if these eggs could be fertile. It may not be eating because of the ovulating and egg-laying. This happens sometimes with...

Just let a few crickets out in the cage so he can hopefully chase them around. It's not the end of the world if the crickets stay for awhile. You could also try leaving some mealworms in a bowl overnight and see what happens. Aliza