The rarest & most highly slept on gecko species???

[smallskiluv-tha-rhaco]

What do you guys think is the rarest or the most highly slept on gecko species ever kept in captivity or in the pet trade??????

My picks are the New Zealand geckos since they are still rare & hardly kept in captivity.

Another one is the lesser rough-snouted gecko (R. trachyrhynchus trachycephalus) since Ive heard they are considered threatened in the wild.

Plus a lot of Asian geckos from the central Asian deserts & arid highlands are also rare & almost never studied in captivity nor in the wild.

What other rare geckos you guys consider???

 

[oscar]

define rare. if you are using monetary values as the definition, you might be right, but if you are thinking as in not found in personal collections, i think you might find some different answers. for some odd reason, there are numerous species that ignored by most keepers and they arent necessarily expensive. for instance, think of Jay Sommers, he has in excess of 300 species. how many species can you name off the top of your head that you know people keep? if you know alot of keepers, i'd bet you could reach 200.. maybe. what of the other 100 that he keeps? see what i mean?

Scott

 

[Coleonyx]

Coleonyx reticulatus- it used be be in captivity, but has not ever since texas put the cap on them .

 

[smallskiluv-tha-rhaco]

The monetary value doesnt always meant the rarity of the species!
What Ive meant by rare or highly slept on of is gecko species which are from very rare in captivity & not very much studied in capitivity or in the wild as well as the most easily overlooked gecko species by the commercial pet trade.

One example of a gecko that certainly meets the above is Australian Leaf-tailed gecko genus Salturius or sumthin like that... Many folks never heard or seen these geckos before except for Australian reptile fanatics & herpetologists & you can never ever find them in any reptile-oriented pet store in the U.S.!! Haha!..
Get it?? :mrgreen:

 

[josh]

Some are working with many "rare" au.sp. Just nothing is said about them until, publicly hatchlings are offered
:mrgreen:

 

[Jan Grathwohl]

Just a few genera from here i have nearly never heard off being kept privately

Briba, Bogertia, Dravidogecko, Matoatoa, Luperosaurus, Pseudogekko, Narudasia, Perochirus, Urocotyledon

I know that some of them are kept, but only rarely.

 

[sune jensen]

The most highly slept on gecko species ever kept in captivity or in the pet trade must be some of the geckos that are imported regularily and are unpopular (=slept on) for exactly that reason. Yeah that is right, people are definetely sleeping on stenodactylus petri, lygodactylus picturatus, cyrtodactylus intermedius/pulchellus/oldhami/brevipalmatus, holodactylus africanus, Teratoscincus roborowski and many many more. Not being able to see their fascination and beauty, and thinking of them as common crap species, just because they are imported regularily. That must be the definition of sleeping on something.
NZ gex, Saltuarius and rhacs are definetely not being slept on. They are everybodys dream, highly popular and very expensive. That is not exaactly my definition of being slept on.

Sune

 

[Brian]

Holodactylus africanus is one species I'd like to see more common.

 

[smallskiluv-tha-rhaco]

The most highly slept on gecko species ever kept in captivity or in the pet trade must be some of the geckos that are imported regularily and are unpopular (=slept on) for exactly that reason. Yeah that is right, people are definetely sleeping on stenodactylus petri, lygodactylus picturatus, cyrtodactylus intermedius/pulchellus/oldhami/brevipalmatus, holodactylus africanus, Teratoscincus roborowski and many many more. Not being able to see their fascination and beauty, and thinking of them as common crap species, just because they are imported regularily. That must be the definition of sleeping on something.
NZ gex, Saltuarius and rhacs are definetely not being slept on. They are everybodys dream, highly popular and very expensive. That is not exaactly my definition of being slept on.

Sune

Youre right about all of the above but about the NZ geckos, I would disagree cuz many so many beginner reptile enthusiasts & other folks who knows the more common species of geckos dont even know there are geckos like that in NZ or most likely never heard of any of them just becuase they are so uncommon to rare in capitivity including in a local pet store, you know what I mean???

 

[Brian]

Well that's not being underrated. Everybody wants one. People will kill for them. (Joking, well maybe).

Underrated stuff in my opinion are stuff that are very common, but if importation/capture suddenly stopped captive populations would drop since no one bothers to breed them. Things that get treated cheaply are also underated like Green Anoles. Maybe it's just cause I grew up in the west were they don't live, but I think there pretty cool.

 

[klondike4001]

I agree on the Green Anoles, if you live somewhere where you can walk into the backyard a catch a dozen or 2 in a good 15 minutes, they do get treated cheaply.

 

[DeadIrishD]

common house geckos, and tokay geckos are the only two that I can think of.

 

[smallskiluv-tha-rhaco]

Tokays are sooo overrated dude!... :?

 

[kenya_1977]

From Brian's discription I would have to say that a lot of Day Gecko sp are falling to the way side. There are a few of the Phelsumas that are established in the trade (standings, grandis.. and such), but there are many that are experiencing captive lulls. There's been a lot more restriction on what is coming in from Madagascar.. and so the breeding population isn't what it use to be. I can only think of a couple major breeders of a wide range of Phelsuma.

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