i've become partial to my snakes and size wise it might be easy to keep a smaller speices king snake get em as a baby and they are great pets i have a corn that sleeps on me my lizards don't really get to handle the smaller one much the good ones for handling are beardies but they need a pretty big cage eventually .
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Thanks alot for the suggestions guys. Soft shell- I was wondering, can you A) get Tokays small enough to try to train? B) Get Different Tokay color morphs? C) can you feed them things other then live food for periods of time? D) what are thier housing requirements? E) whats a good Tokay price?I was also thinking, What about a day gecko? has anyone owned one, and if so, what do you think? Thanks alot, and keep up with the suggestions, I'm still TOTALLY on the fence.
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leopard gecko would be easier, you can actually handle it. you also dont have to worry about it getting out like you do with the tokays. same goes with the snakes. is there a tank size limit? (if they even allow anything besides fish).
i disagree that you will get better people at an expo. of course you can get horrible people at a pet shop, but many people at a show are just there for the money. they get in animals they have never owned or even seen in person before, take them to the show, and try to get them off of their hands before any signs of disease or anything show. many times they are selling animals they have gotten in a couple days before the show. there are pros and cons of both the shops and the shows. in the end you need to know what you are doing as well so you can realize it when you are talking to someone who doesnt know what they are doing.
i disagree that you will get better people at an expo. of course you can get horrible people at a pet shop, but many people at a show are just there for the money. they get in animals they have never owned or even seen in person before, take them to the show, and try to get them off of their hands before any signs of disease or anything show. many times they are selling animals they have gotten in a couple days before the show. there are pros and cons of both the shops and the shows. in the end you need to know what you are doing as well so you can realize it when you are talking to someone who doesnt know what they are doing.
Thanks reptile guy
Personally, I'd just like to check out the Expo scene, but I bet that is absolutely true. Leo's are cool, but I've had them before, and was never really that into them. I've been seriously thinking a day gecko, because from what I've read, you can feed them fruit as well as crickets as part of their diet, and supposedly, they can become rather tame. Thanks alot for the suggestions so far, do you have anything on these guys? Keep the suggestions comming!
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Personally, I'd just like to check out the Expo scene, but I bet that is absolutely true. Leo's are cool, but I've had them before, and was never really that into them. I've been seriously thinking a day gecko, because from what I've read, you can feed them fruit as well as crickets as part of their diet, and supposedly, they can become rather tame. Thanks alot for the suggestions so far, do you have anything on these guys? Keep the suggestions comming!
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expo is still a good place to meet good herp people, just dont think that because it is a herp expo they are all good, thats all. crested geckos are really good too. they are handlable (once they get used to you, but that applies to any "handlable" pet) they eat crested gecko diet (a powder you mix with water to make a paste), baby food, and i think occasionally crickets. i think they are cooler looking. they should not go above about 80F so you usually dont need a heat lamp (75F is their optimal temp i think). and if you give them the right diet they dont need full spectrum lighting. the right diet would be the crested gecko diet, or baby food with a calcium/vitD3 supplement powder, or a mix of the 2. easy to breed too, if that is a consideration for you. i would think it would be hard to get a day gecko to settle down for you, even if it is possible for some people. they both need higher humidity though, but that is easily provided. im not getting the emails saying there is a reply here, so if i dont reply to you, just send me a private message or something like that.
I paid $12 for each of my tokays, there are several color morphs though most have the same patterns, one of mine is usually a brownish green with orange spots while the other is a lighter blueish green with blue and orange. They bark when I handle them and bite once or twice but calm down quickly. I have never tried to feed mine anything that was not alive, except an egg once, they ate part but got egg white all over so that was only once.
The calmest and friendliest geckos I have seen were cresteds.
The calmest and friendliest geckos I have seen were cresteds.
