picked up two gals

[erik]

I can finally properly introduce myself now that I just came home from picking up my first two leos!

The plan is to raise the two girls first (we hope we sexed them alright )
and eventually give them a strapping lad in a year or two.

I'll try to put up pictures as soon as they are used to their habitat.

I'm 27, live in the Netherlands and I'm an English Teacher at vocational school/tech.

Before picking up the geckos I read into keeping them, mostly on this forum and it has helped me loads! Thanks already for providing this medium!

 

[Palor]

Gratz on your new geckos.

 

[erik]

MISS 1

MISS 2

 

[prettyprincess3690]

Very cute, congrats!

 

[cj.thomas21]

Welcome.

 

[rawson5084]

Very pretty and Welcome to GF

 

[VitalTears]

Pretty cool and welcome to GF

 

[Necromantica]

Welcome! And I would just like to leave you a little friendly tip here, I can see a significant size difference between the first gecko pictured, and the second gecko you have pictured. I don't mean to be a no fun nit picker, but I would advise if possible to sepparate until the hatchling is a little larger if it is as small as it appears. Cannibalism happens. And she/he looks bite size compared to the juvi.

 

[erik]

hey necro, thanks for the advice. The pictures give a distorted view though. Although she is a tat smaller, there is not that much difference in size. The smaller one is even feistier than the bigger one and since the tank is pretty big (40"20"20") they hardly run into each other

They are also from the same 'generation', the girl who sold them to me had all of her youngsters in the same enclosure, apart form the tiny albinos she had.

 

[fikken]

congrats on the new geckos and welcome. What kind of plants are those?

 

[erik]

the big one is a fake clematis kind of thing whose leaves they happily use as a hammock, the small one is an actual cactus. It's pretty pathetic though and has never grown in the two years I had it, but it looks nice and has no needles.

The olive dish works really well for the mealies! And it looks nice IMO.

 

[VitalTears]

nice setup dude xD

 

[erik]

thanks! I've had them both out now, and since they have crossed the barrier of being touched/held, they have been runnign aorund a lot more, out in the open. Victoria, the smallest one is a very good hunter and very alert. Nevada lets a cricket slip right under her nose now and then (BUMMER! It's a pain to catch the crickets once they've warmed up again...)