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Floyd
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Hey y'all. Just got me a Leopard Gecko. He's about 7-8 weeks old and I think he's a Rainwater Albino (but I would love to hear from those who know better than me).
He was offered to me by a friend who keeps and recently bred Leapord Geckos. I have had lizards as a kid (My mom likes to tell everyone how, when I was 8, I always used say I wanted to be Herpetologist when I grew up) ... I had Anoles, Salamanders, Painted Turtles, an Iguana and various frogs.
The first impression of my Gecko Floyd, is that he is more alert, curious, aware, and, if I may say , 'doglike' than any of the other reptiles or amphibians I've kept before. After 2 days, he could recognize the cricket-keeper and will focus intently on it whenever its within view. His tail gets twitching even as I bring a cricket towards the terrarrium.
He's still pretty skittish when I go to pick him up, which I think is pretty normal, so I'm going easy on the handling. I do make sure that my hand's always in and around his tank though to just get him used to me. Speaking of which, I've got an idea and I'm wondering if anyone else has tried training a Leo? My plan is to start always picking him up before I feed him. I figure that he will pretty quickly get conditioned to get in my hand readily in anticipation of a feeding. Sound reasonable?
Anyways, its great to find a good community devoted to these great little creatures and I hope to be solid contributer to it. Here's some pics of the li'l guy.
Cheers,
Floyd
He was offered to me by a friend who keeps and recently bred Leapord Geckos. I have had lizards as a kid (My mom likes to tell everyone how, when I was 8, I always used say I wanted to be Herpetologist when I grew up) ... I had Anoles, Salamanders, Painted Turtles, an Iguana and various frogs.
The first impression of my Gecko Floyd, is that he is more alert, curious, aware, and, if I may say , 'doglike' than any of the other reptiles or amphibians I've kept before. After 2 days, he could recognize the cricket-keeper and will focus intently on it whenever its within view. His tail gets twitching even as I bring a cricket towards the terrarrium.
He's still pretty skittish when I go to pick him up, which I think is pretty normal, so I'm going easy on the handling. I do make sure that my hand's always in and around his tank though to just get him used to me. Speaking of which, I've got an idea and I'm wondering if anyone else has tried training a Leo? My plan is to start always picking him up before I feed him. I figure that he will pretty quickly get conditioned to get in my hand readily in anticipation of a feeding. Sound reasonable?
Anyways, its great to find a good community devoted to these great little creatures and I hope to be solid contributer to it. Here's some pics of the li'l guy.
Cheers,
Floyd
I would imagine that if you only handled him right before feeing, it would probably train him to do that, but you can get him used to you by just handling him more and more often gradually 
