Recent content by Cliff43J

My oldest grandson, 10, went outside and captured this gecko by hand. He is so good at this. It is not native to Texas. I have failed to find it online. Any thoughts? The last image is probably the best. It is in a flightless fruit fly bowl in the terrarium. The top of its head is a...

We believe that this is a female Rough-Tailed Gecko shedding. The photos are a fairly good documentation of her shedding...to be continued. October 26: The shed continues.

WOW! Nice. Out geckos have to wait for their plants "to grow up"...lol...

Our male albino gecko is shedding. I caught him rubbing off his skin on a piece of slate that we have in his terrarium. He has become quite tame, and my grandsons work with him each day for a minimum of 10 minutes.

A week ago, my 2 grandsons, 9 & 10, captured by hand a pair of Rough-Tailed Geckos. Now, that is what I call "trapping". They were so excited, so I set up a terrarium for them. A week later and it appears that what we think is the female has turned "white" which is we think the start of a...

My 2 grandsons, ages 9 & 10, continue to amaze me with their interest in lizards. We have several different species on our lots. Earlier this week they went outside to catch some katydids, etc. to feed their albino geckos. Before I knew it, they had captured by hand 2 rough-tailed geckos...

I checked with the seller. He said that he buys them from a breeder who has a strain that is supposedly albino chocolate, so I am going to stay with that name. At this point, the boys don't really care. They are enjoying them. I have my eyes on a local lizard that we have by our front porch...

We have albino chocolate geckos. They are lovely, friendly critters. Given what we know now, I am going for green anoles next. Why? They are diurnal lizards that love to climb. Geckos are twilight creatures. They love to hide during the day. They dig. Green anoles can be trained, and...

They were ordered as medium, 1/2" size. Contacted seller. 3-4 weeks old.

Interestingly, all of the crickets in this first batch were all dead in about 6 days. Disappointing, to say the least. The second batch is thriving with only one loss. Both bins were identical. I find myself wondering if the fly larvae had something to do with the mortality of the first...

I have watched so many videos on YouTube about raising crickets, that I see them in my sleep...lol... What bin to use? How to lay it out? Well FWIW, here is what I ended up with. To keep costs relatively low I went with 3 Sterilite, 90-quart, translucent bins. It is not a heavy-duty bin...

Day 3 of setting up our cricket breeding experiment and whoops! We have some contamination. Fly larvae is my guess. Will crickets eat these? I cleaned out most of them, but not all. The container lid was on tightly, so I am guessing that the eggs were on or in something that we used as a...

Yes, I am familiar with these products, and for some they are great. I am in a small town with limited shopping outlets. I drive several miles to WalMart, so, not wanting to do this too often I am looking for the lowest cost items. Moisture can be handled inexpensively with polyester wool in...

I quickly discovered that I did not want to pay outrageous prices for crickets to feed our geckos. The alternative was to get rid of the geckos or raise our own crickets. My grandsons would never let me forget it if I got rid of their geckos, so it was on to raising crickets. Which ones??? I...

Good to read your thread. I set up a terrarium for my grandsons, ages 2, 9, & 10. They love them. We have a pair of juvenile albino chocolate geckos. Food is my major issue now. I am not overly wild about buying live food as it is a 30+ minute drive and prices are more than I care to pay...