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[Matthew M.]

Hi. I have a 10 gallon tank and i was hoping to get a gecko. I am a beginner and dont have experince. I was wondering which geckos would be would be able to fit in a 10 gallon and are at my skill level. I searched around and the Electric Blue Gecko caught my eye. is that something i could have in my tank?

thanks

 

[Embrace Calamity]

Definitely not.
1) Electric blue day geckos are not beginner geckos and are pretty expensive (especially the males, which are the only ones who are blue).
2) They require high humidity, which you can't maintain in a regular fish tank and isn't something I'd recommend for someone who's never kept geckos.
3) They're arboreal (they climb), so you'd need to get a conversion kit to stand it on end.

For reference, I know someone who keeps those geckos, and here's his setup (that he built from scratch):

There aren't many geckos I would recommend keeping in 10 gallons their whole lives. These guys, mourning geckos, and viper geckos are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head that could be comfortably kept in 10 gallons their whole lives, but the first two are not beginner geckos (I'm not sure about the viper geckos, but they're generally quite expensive).

~Maggot

 

[Ghostoftangerine17]

I thought 10G was fine for leopard geckos...?

 

[Embrace Calamity]

I thought 10G was fine for leopard geckos...?

Depends on who you ask. I said I wouldn't recommend it, but that doesn't mean others wouldn't. I don't believe in keeping reptiles in the bare minimum their whole lives. In a 10 gallon, once they reach full size, they literally can only move a few inches in any direction. I wouldn't keep an adult leo in anything smaller than 20 long.

~Maggot