crested

[DKGecko]

ive been doing research but will 10 gallon cage setup be fine for them? and just need locking screen top.. i know alot u guys against pet acular but.. when there looking at them... and think there pretty awsome...how high they jump and they do like tricks in the air lol...

but like DO you guys put Real plants as things for them to hide in or do u jus tuse fake stuff? cuz i want get a cage setup for mby one or two

also what kinds can u put together like if got 2-3 females cna u put them all together... is it same way with male and male thing...

any type of info be great im sure theres tons postings like this... i just didnt bother to look i got go work so figured id just pop my thread open when got back or if there none id searc ha

 

[goReptiles]

You need at minimum a 15 gallon tall tank. 10 gallon would be fine for a juvie, but not an adult.

I use fake stuff. I keep simplistic enclosus with egg cartons and fake plants.

You can put multiple females in a tank, but you still have to worry about bullying and stress. No males together. Same basic concept.

Wow tricks... Um. Yea no. lol. they more or less leap not jump.

 

[DKGecko]

well they doing like 360 and stuff when they were"leapin" it just cool watch

but yea okaymake sure get bigger tank if i get adult's how long Before the Juvie would be adult? and can u tell there sex right away or is it like leos where its after certain amount months?

 

[goReptiles]

You can sex them at 10 grams with a loupe or over 6 months without, but it can be hard at 6 months, as sometimes they'll have bulges and the next day it'll disappear.

I don't let mine do "tricks." I'd hate for them to fall and hurt themselves

 

[WftRight]

I agree with the previous post that the minimum for an adult crestie should be one of the "15 high" tanks that is the same footprint as a 10 gallon but is 20 inches high. I think that cage would give a crestie enough height. I have one of these cages, and I'm going to add one of those wire "aquarium topper" cages on top. That will increase the vertical space in the cage to 28 inches. I guess if you put one of those aquarium toppers on a 10 gallon cage, you might start to get enough height, but why give your animals less than the best?

I've only had one crestie, so I can't speak as an expert. However, as a relative novice, I'd like to give some advice to all other novices on a novice-to-novice basis. Until we have experience with these animals, why not keep them each in separate cages. That way, you know that each of your animals is eating and defecating. If we have multiple animals in each cage, we often don't know that each animal is eating and defecating. /soapbox off

Thanks,


Bill

 

[Mel&Keith]

Crested geckos take way longer to sex than Leos. I can't ever tell with a loupe so I wait until it's really obvious, 9 or 10 months old. LOL

 

[DKGecko]

thanks for the Info guys.. you guys are Great when i need info i allways know where to go to the experts/novice People on geckoforums.net

 

[Bodon]

I dont know about tricks, but one of mine played dead once. He was sleeping on the bottom of the tank in the middle of the day but i assumed he was dead. I didnt touch him but i just walked around trying to figure out what went wrong, how did he die, why did he die, what didnt i do right??? Then when i went to take him out and feed my other one he was climbing around all normal! Im not gonna like, it freaked me out.

 

[rubym]

I haven't ever seen my smeagle do tricks.....other then he refuses to eat his crickets until I smoosh the guts out ( I know ewwwww ). He has serious cricket issues. He is scared to death of them, LOL. He is quite good at leaping from his ledges in his tank onto his vines and vise versa.