Mourning Gecko Breeding and Selling

[clemsonguy1125]

Ive been wanting to try breeding a type of gecko for a few months. I looked around and found that mourning gecko were the easiest to breed and easy to keep. My plan is to take a 10 gallon, flip it on its side a silicone a piece of plexi glass to the bottom and another piece with a hinge to the top. I will have several vines, a water dish, and paper towel as a substrate.Ive read that its best to feed them baby food or repashy crested gecko diet. Id prefer to feed it baby food because its cheap and easy to get. Are there any advantages to repashy. Also whats a good place to buy them. Ive seen them anywhere from 8 bucks to 80 bucks. I hope to get them at a expo but Im not sure when the next one will be around. Is there a reason they are expensive? They are cheap to keep a super easy to breed. Is this just a case of supply and demand?
Thanks

 

[qiksilver]

Baby food is not nutritionally sound, so go with a complete diet. You should do some research as well, for example try googling parthenogenesis. If you don't know enough about an animal you should research it so that you don't kill it straight away. And you will especially be surprised when all the animals you buy end up being females.
Please don't get into a certain animal because "it's cheap" and you think you can make a buck off of it.

 

[clemsonguy1125]

Three things-
One,I know they are parthenogenetic. I have dont some research And I am not even sure If I will sell them. I will keep the babies for a while and when I have a good knowledge of them so I can be sure I can answer any of the buyers questions I may try to sell them. There is a reptile store a few miles from my house and the guy who works there and owns it may be interested in them. The reason I asked about the baby food is because it sounded a little fishy and I was curious if it was a good idea. My main reason is not to make a buck. I enjoy keeping reptiles as a hobby. If I make any money of my hobby it will go right back into providing the bast care I can for my geckos. AS for my questions about pricing, I dont really care about if the lowest price is 80 or not. I just want to buy the healthiest gecko I can. I have not read anything about morphs because of the way they produce since they practically clone themselves. I have done my research I was just asking about. And jumping back to baby food comment, I realize I came of looking like a jerk about how I only care about the price and availibility. I will get which ever is better I just was checking to see if the comment I read that said baby food of certain types is the absolute best thing to feed it. But Ill feed it repashy happily if that is better and I plan to feed pinhead crickets and flightless fruit flies as well depending on age. Thanks for your reply and sorry if I came off sounding like a jerk who didnt care about reptiles.

 

[qiksilver]

You're fine, didn't sound like a jerk, it's just that I get twitchy when it sounds as though it's all about turning a profit. Also I probably often sound like a curmudgeon because I believe that doing ones own research is paramount.

I am a fan of the Repashy products I have used. Allen also is very good (when he has the time it seems) about coming on the fora and giving feedback to people. Not only on his forum but others as well. It would also seem that a good amount of research into supplementation and how it effects growth and health.

 

[clemsonguy1125]

Thanks, do you breed them and ever have any for sale? Can you give me a link to Allens profile, I did a search but couldnt find him. I found a post of someone saying they bought leos from Paul Allen, is that him?
Thanks

 

[T-ReXx]

Allen Repashy is pretty much the leading expert on Rhacodactylus geckos. He is not on this site, he has his own forum. I agree, forget about the baby food, it's garbage. Feeding Repashy diet to frugivorous geckos is the way to go, it contains all of the necessary dietary requirements for Rhacs and similar species. I'd love to find the guy who came up with the baby food idea and quietly strangle him.

 

[clemsonguy1125]

Yeah its was on some care sheet, I went back to look for it but I could not find it. I did fine several that said feed baby food once or twice a week but this guy said as a staple. Are you saying that I can feed Repashy as a staple, I was planning on feeding both small crickets and repashy allternating. Thanks for your help, Ill go see if he has any for sale.

 

[T-ReXx]

You can do either. I feed my Halmahera geckos a staple of Repashy diet, I toss in a few roaches every couple of weeks for variety, but it's not necessary for mournings or similar species. Repashy MRP has everything they need.

 

[Palor]

Mourning Geckos rock I feed mine flavored Crested Gecko Diet, Fruit Flies, small crickets and baby roaches. I have a care sheet on my website that goes over my care of these geckos. They are fairly hardy and adaptable, so they can be forgiving of mild husbandry mistakes.

 

[clemsonguy1125]

Thanks sounds good, I think Im good on the set ups and my house temps are in the low 70's upper 60's which is good. I'll feed a staple of repashy. Il have several vines and a hide. The water dish will be the stick on leaf thing ******** sells. Im also going to look into like plants with a layer of soil covered in plexiglass with paper towel over that.

 

[lampeye]

I'd love to find the guy who came up with the baby food idea and quietly strangle him.

Uh...I think it WAS Repashy - fruit baby food mixed with turkey baby food and a vitamin supplement. It was Repashy or another big-league herper. The "strictly baby food" diet is a misunderstanding of that initially successful recipe.

 

[lampeye]

oops...double post somehow - soz