Ridiculously tiny..?

[l1bertinee]

I saw this gecko on sale. Listed as a leopard gecko, but it was seriously as tiny as bearded dragons / crested gecko hatchlings.
(so about 2 inches long, in body length... the whole gecko could fit on barely one of my finger lengths)

I'm just wondering... Could this possibly be a different kind of gecko or just an amazingly tiny leopard gecko.

I had a hatchling leopard gecko that was 2 weeks old and it was nearly 3 times it's size :S

 

[NinjaDuo]

? Post a picture

 

[Dimidiata]

I doubt its a Leo But you never know..sounds like someone mistook a Mediterranean house for a Leo, happens A LOT.

 

[l1bertinee]

It was albino so Im not sure if it's a different type of gecko lol.
And I have no pics I was at my local pet shop.

 

[l1bertinee]

I just looked at a pic of a Mediterranean gecko, doesnt look like that at all. I thought banded gecko, but it doesnt look like that either. I wonder what it is, because it just looks like a super tiny leopard gecko

 

[Dimidiata]

Does it have the babby markings or does it resemble a full grown adult?

 

[l1bertinee]

Baby markings. It looks like my bell when I first bought it, just way smaller haha.

 

[artes]

Its probably just a tiny baby. Clare didn't even register on the gram scale when I got her.

 

[l1bertinee]

Yeah, I bought him/her today haha, it's definitely a leopard gecko. A tiny freakin gecko.
2.9 grams, so cute.

What did you feed Clare? Just pinhead crickets?

and before anybody kills me, cause I'm looking at the pic and I realize it looks like sand.
It's cork board and also I have a digital thermometer haha. The exo terra thermometer is "back up" in case that one fails

 

[Wild West Reptile]

What are they doing...hatching them and putting them straight for sale? **shakes head**

 

[l1bertinee]

Pretty much, I was like OMG when I saw this baby. And since all of my geckos have pretty much been raised from hatchling size, I decided to take it.
But even then, there was two and I left the other one because it was about half an inch smaller. And I didn't want to run into troubles finding prey small enough to feed it.
This one has eaten 4 small crickets so far in my care. I have an 18x18x18 tank and it has so much space to run around haha.

 

[artes]

I fed her pinhead crickets and the smaller mealworms. She preferred the crickets when she was that size, but when she got a little bigger she liked the mealworms better.

 

[artes]

I'm sorry the photo is so blurry, I tried to take it with my left hand when I am the complete opposite of a left handed person. But, without further ado...

Clare the day I brought her home:

Clare now (can't really tell her size, but its my favorite photo of her):

 

[l1bertinee]

Aww so cute!! <3 I love how much they grow!
My other geckos were babies when I got them and now they are about 45-50 grams and I got them in August

 

[Dimidiata]

Lol, very tiny. I think rango might just be to perfect for me. I suck at giving out advice on baby Leos because rango never put up any problems lol(eats, sleeps, poops and sheds, its a miracle since i got him on whim...). Good pic by the way, very cute. Best of luck to you.