Who says evil can't be trained?

[marauderhex]

 

[PhoenixCoconut]

Oh wow thats cool! How did you do that??? I want to see a pic by your face lol jk At the last reptile show there was a lady w/a tokay just hanging on her shirt OMG he was soooo sweet for a tokay!

Nice job taming that tokay!

 

[marauderhex]

I just put my hand under her and she will climb up. As long as you go under, not over, you're perceived as less of a threat, thereby not forcing them into fight or flight.

 

[katie_]

I had one lunge at me once. SCARY!

 

[TranceZ]

I used to have a tokay, very gorgeous geckos but I never held her. lol

 

[GeckoCrossing]

I love tokays So great to see a tamed one. Most people are too afraid to even pick their tokays up. lol

 

[marauderhex]

I know that my tolerance for pain is a little out there, considering I'm covered in tattoos, but I don't think their bite is all that bad. It's not like you're sticking your hand in a chainsaw or anything.

 

[GeckoCrossing]

Lol. My friend was holding one and stuck her finger in it's mouth to let it bite just to show my wife it wasn't that bad

 

[Dimidiata]

What impresses me is that you went into this shirtless, that could have ended...not so fun. XP. What a sweet lil gator you got there.

 

[marauderhex]

It was about 6 am and my alarm goes off at 5:45, so I wasn't fully with it yet.

 

[Dimidiata]

Well its a cutie, i love the light blue on these guys>>>has a tokay poster in room<<<

 

[marauderhex]

She is light blue when "happy" and she gets almost slate gray when stressed. I love the whole range of colors.

 

[Dimidiata]

ill assume that means shes pretty content being up there, sweet. Aside from going under them is she special or just generaly more tame, or is she just your run of the mill tokay? Atleast you wont get anymore uneeded HIV vaccinations(hell bent in making this a inside joke.)

 

[marauderhex]

She actually has one hell of a back story. We don't know her complete origin, but we know this. She was found on a Pizza Hut drive thru window in Florida by a girl (let's call her Girl 1). She captures Galactus (who is about 8 million times thinner at this point). Girl 1 takes her to a pet store, Petco, I believe, where upon she is informed that Galactus is a "crested gecko" and should be cared for as such. Well, they get a 10 gallon tank, lid, reptile carpet, a hide or two, and feed her nothing but baby food (which isn't good for even cresties, let alone insectivores like tokays). Girl 1's friend comes over and sees Galactus, who is emaciated at this point from lack of real food. Girl 2 decides that she can provide better care and gets Girl 1 to let her take Galactus home with her. Girl 2 gets on a reptile forum I frequent (reptileforums.net), and asks about tokay husbandry, and how to nurse her back to health. I respond to the questions and in a few weeks Galactus is the fat and happy gecko you see today. This past fall, Girl 2 is graduating high school and going on a cross country trip. She decides that she can't keep Galactus, and puts up a classified ad for her on rf.net. I see it first thing in the morning, and I immediately respond. I had wanted a tokay for years, and never found one that I could either afford, or could gaurentee it's former conditions. So even though I can never say whether she is WC or CB or CBB, I decided that since my advice helped nurture this gecko back to health that I shared a sort of bond with it, and offered to take her in. So a couple weeks later, after many messages about how to go about shipping Galactus from Florida to where I live, I get the Fedex box that I'd been dreaming of. Now I'd never seen any pictures of rehab-ed Galactus, so I kinda expected to open a box and find a stick of a gecko. I open the box and get to the bag. Man, this bag's kinda hefty, I hope she didn't put the heat pack in with the gecko, I remember thinking. I open the bag and I see the two big "puppy dog" eyes of Galactus staring up at me. I released her into her fully set up 20x20x20" enclosure and she is the happy gecko that you see in the picture.

 

[Dimidiata]

Damn, talk about a rough life eh? Glad you got her, im guessing that shes generaly good natured then?

 

[katie_]

Pizza hut!
Everyone loves pizza.

 

[marauderhex]

Yeah, she's very mild mannered for a tokay. Great pet, so glad I got her.

 

[sonofawhat]

I have a juvenile tokay ive handled it occasionally and i have noticed that when he bites as soon as i let go he usually does to my only problem with him is every tim i let go he takes off running how do i get him to the point where he will relax is it just a matter of daily handleing or is there more to it? Imalso looking.to breed him but im having trouble finding a female for a good price i got the male for fifteen dollars wich im.pretty sure was a steal.

 

[marauderhex]

Patience and handling are the keys to getting your tokay to trust you. The reason he was $15 is most likely because he was a wild caught import. If you haven't already, I'd have him checked out by a vet to make sure that he isn't riddled with parasites.

 

[contracteryin]

Haha, I'm in the middle of "taming" Katsu at the moment. He really isn't bad, just very flighty. I've only received one warning bite and two warning barks.
Why my friend and whole family are afraid of these guys I'll never know. Sure, they're not as nice as my crested gecko or leos at first glance, but on the inside they really are sweet geckos.