We just got two crested geckos from Petco

[Kennyandbekah]

Hi there, we're sort of new to geckos (me and my husband, Kenny) , we've had a crested gecko, for about a year or so, and he recently died. it was terrible. well, its been a few months and we saw a sale at Petco for $24.95 for a crested gecko, so we bought two.

I'll get pictures up soon, they're different sizes , ones significantly larger than the other one. Does this pose a problem? they were in teh same cage at teh petco.

also, we were wondering what other geckos could be housed with them. we arent looking to do this now. Just curious.

we are feeding them crickets/ baby food and dusting them with 'bone aid' . they are eating fine and seem to be healthy.

they stay at opposite ends of the tank. we have two big hanging plants on either side, the tank is around a 30 gallon tank. we have a mix of orchid bark and coconut bark (we ran out of coconut bark) and also mist them every other day. we live in San Diego, so the temp is good climate for these guys... our house stays around 70-80 degrees.

do you have any advice? anything we're missing? can you believe the price we got them for?

anyways we're new to this forum, but this looks like a cool site. thanks!

Kenny and bekah (Bekah was writing) ....

 

[Je_suis_le_Rhac]

If they are different sizes, then they should be kept seperately. How big are they? If they are sexable, make sure they are not both males. If it is a male and female, make sure the female is over 30-35 grams before they are together.

It wouldn't be good to house other species of gecko with them. It can be done, but I don't think it is worth risking their health.

For diet, you might want to look into either Crested Gecko diet by T-rex, or clark's gecko diet. They are much more nutritious than babyfood. I don't really know what bone-aid is (well i know there is a calcium sand called bone aid, which im sure this isn't). just make sure it is calcium lol....with D3.

What morph are they? If they are just the brown buckskins, 25 is about the right price, but they can go up to 50-60 depending on where u get them from. If they are different morphs, then they are worth more than $25.

I don't know why your gecko only lived 1 year.......sorry to hear that Hopefully these will do good for you.........they can live like 15 years .

John

 

[Kennyandbekah]

our gecko lived only a year, because we were very new to taking care of them and he was a hatchling, very very small, and we did the baby food/ crickets dusted with the crested gecko diet by trex and everything we read up on. however, we didnt include enough calcium, and for the most part we'd just leave him be, cleaning out his cage and stuff, but not handling him too much, because we didnt want to stress him out. however when we picked him up after we came back from out of town for my sister (emergency) --(had my mother in law caring for him) we noticed his hind legs weren't working so well, and we didtn have any money because i had been laid off (when i left to go be with my sister in a life/death emergency) and kenny hadnt worked in a few weeks. at any rate we took him to the LLLReptile store and the girl agreed to take a look, but made sure i knew she wasnt a professional. i was soo worried... anyways,

she fed him some liquid calcium with a syringe, and it looked like he took it ok, then he started either choking or having a seizure and within minutes he was dead.

i was devastated... i cant blame her because she was just trying to help...but anyways... so then we had Norbert, no more.

one of our new geckos is what i would call "brown buckskin" hes rather drab compared to Norbert's coloring. and the littler one is lighter. i'll go snap a few pics and post them ....

please comment about this, because we were bewildered, we dusted with calcium but we did it once a week or sometimes every other week, we had no idea we should do it more often.

ok, ill go take some pictures and come back and post them. they aren't spectacular coloring, but we love them just the same.

 

[Coleonyx]

hind legs not working properly is a sign of impaction. he either ate a cricket/worm that was too big, or got some substrate in his stomach.

 

[GeckoFiend]

Hind legs not working properly is also a sign of a severe calcium/d3 deficiency. Often, they'll drag their back legs or they'll just kinda twitch.

 

[Kennyandbekah]

Here are some pictures i took,. our camera sucks, but this is the best i can do, sorry if they are too big or too many.

Our geckos are Walter and Flip (Flip being the smaller one) , Flip has better coloring than Walter. but you can't see either, becasue of my crappy camera. Norbert was the best though, i'll include a picture of him at the bottom.

here goes:

this is a picture of Walter

Flip

Walter and Flip

Walter and Flip again

Norbert (those are 'homies' in the background)

 

[GeckoFiend]

Their size is close enough to keep them together, just make sure that they're both eating well. You may need to provide two food dishes on opposite corners of the cage if there is any bullying. Keep an eye on them for bulges that could show their sexes-as mentioned before, two males together is a very bad thing.

Good luck, and nice geckos.

 

[Brandon Parry]

In order to be certain that they get raised healthy and correctly I would suggest seperating them if it is at all possible. If they are both males and they are both the same size they can be housed together as long as the cage is large enough and a female is not present. If you keep them together I would closely monitor there wieght and activity. I would also suggest removing the orchid bark as crickets can hide under it and there is a chance it could get swallowed. Mist once a day perferable at night and mist again the next day only if the cage has dried out from the previous misting. I would suggest using miner-all indoor formula for dusting the crickets and I would also suggest only feeding baby food as a treat maybe around once a week. Keep the temps around a good room temp and you should be fine. If you have any questions feel free to email or AIM us.

 

[sircat]

aww very cute and sorry to hear...norbert looked similar to ones I breed