trickyspark
trickyspark
- Messages
- 9
- Location
- Evergreen, Alabama
Hello,
As the title says I am indeed new to geckos. I have many pets (11 cats, 2 dogs, 2 turtles, a bearded dragon, and around 30 fish).
I've been reading up on geckos a while now, in anticipation of maybe getting a crested gecko. However recently I read an article stating that there were house geckos native in my area (Evergreen, Alabama).
Indeed, as I was locking up at work I saw around 10-15 on one part of the front doors, and another 10-15 on the back doors. I read up on them a while, sat up a tank, and caught a smaller gecko. I've been feeding it pinhead crickets that my cricket colony produces (got a colony going to feed my dragon).
Perhaps foolishly Sunday, I decided to try ordering some of the wingless fruit flies, as I was getting low on pinhead crickets. The flies came today, which leads me to my first question on the forum...
How exactly do you feed the wingless flies to a baby gecko? I assumed like I do with crickets, sadly the flies can climb the walls of his glass tank, the crickets cannot. Should I maybe let the gecko into a small container like a mason jar and drop some flies in just for feeding time?
The top of his tank has one of the wire screen lids. There are sooooo many flies, I'd like to make sure he's able to eat all he'd like.
As the title says I am indeed new to geckos. I have many pets (11 cats, 2 dogs, 2 turtles, a bearded dragon, and around 30 fish).
I've been reading up on geckos a while now, in anticipation of maybe getting a crested gecko. However recently I read an article stating that there were house geckos native in my area (Evergreen, Alabama).
Indeed, as I was locking up at work I saw around 10-15 on one part of the front doors, and another 10-15 on the back doors. I read up on them a while, sat up a tank, and caught a smaller gecko. I've been feeding it pinhead crickets that my cricket colony produces (got a colony going to feed my dragon).
Perhaps foolishly Sunday, I decided to try ordering some of the wingless fruit flies, as I was getting low on pinhead crickets. The flies came today, which leads me to my first question on the forum...
How exactly do you feed the wingless flies to a baby gecko? I assumed like I do with crickets, sadly the flies can climb the walls of his glass tank, the crickets cannot. Should I maybe let the gecko into a small container like a mason jar and drop some flies in just for feeding time?
The top of his tank has one of the wire screen lids. There are sooooo many flies, I'd like to make sure he's able to eat all he'd like.
