Tokay Geckos.
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dirtyblacksocks;1596850; said:
Definantly not always true. There are some vids on Youtube with some tame tokays. You just have to know how to work it.
I'm at work, otherwise I'd post more pics, but this is what I have posted to this forum (under the sticky "post your lizards etc")....
Gekkota.com - Gekko gecko page My images are the first 2 posted (by Chris Newsom); note the hatchling guarded by parents. I apologize for the crappiness of the photos. They were taken with my old Kodak DC215 push-here-dummy camera. Then again, so was the hatchling photo above, but the adult photo I took was with my Nikon D70.
I have to agree with the one poster, coura. Tokays, IMHO, are much more of a large habitat display animal than a hands-on animal. Hands-on CAN be achieved, but with lots of patience and understanding of how to read the animal. The male (photo center in 1st pic) in the above link I posted was purchased in 1993 (photo taken 99 I believe). It took lots of stressing on both me and him and many bites to "tame" him down. By 96/97 I could handle him readily without him visually (heavy breathing, mouth gaping, lunging, etc) over-stressing. Unfortunately, he died in 2002. However, the gecko in the nice photo above is his first born son and I'm currently plumping up a female to place with him in his 90 gallon tank.
Oh, and if you want to look into hand-raised tame tokays try daygecko.com. CB tokays aren't cheap vs what you can pay for a WC pet store animal with parasites, etc, but Greg and Leann have some beautiful tokays and enjoy working with them.
Gekkota.com - Gekko gecko page My images are the first 2 posted (by Chris Newsom); note the hatchling guarded by parents. I apologize for the crappiness of the photos. They were taken with my old Kodak DC215 push-here-dummy camera. Then again, so was the hatchling photo above, but the adult photo I took was with my Nikon D70.
I have to agree with the one poster, coura. Tokays, IMHO, are much more of a large habitat display animal than a hands-on animal. Hands-on CAN be achieved, but with lots of patience and understanding of how to read the animal. The male (photo center in 1st pic) in the above link I posted was purchased in 1993 (photo taken 99 I believe). It took lots of stressing on both me and him and many bites to "tame" him down. By 96/97 I could handle him readily without him visually (heavy breathing, mouth gaping, lunging, etc) over-stressing. Unfortunately, he died in 2002. However, the gecko in the nice photo above is his first born son and I'm currently plumping up a female to place with him in his 90 gallon tank.
Oh, and if you want to look into hand-raised tame tokays try daygecko.com. CB tokays aren't cheap vs what you can pay for a WC pet store animal with parasites, etc, but Greg and Leann have some beautiful tokays and enjoy working with them.
as with anything its all about setting up the tank correctly and getting your lighting cycles correct to help with breeding..
as far as taming down adults.. dont give up.. wear heavy gloves.. if they fight to not be held, just keep holding them.. get into a routine. try feeding by hand.. you need to get them to not be affraid of your hand.. ive always had luck getting stuff to tame down by handfeeding.. find something that they love to eat as a treat.. superworms, butterworms, ect. and feed by hand before you handle it. eventually they will not see your hand as a threat.. sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt..
but i also agree with what was mentioned above that they should be something to look at and not to handle..
as far as taming down adults.. dont give up.. wear heavy gloves.. if they fight to not be held, just keep holding them.. get into a routine. try feeding by hand.. you need to get them to not be affraid of your hand.. ive always had luck getting stuff to tame down by handfeeding.. find something that they love to eat as a treat.. superworms, butterworms, ect. and feed by hand before you handle it. eventually they will not see your hand as a threat.. sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt..
but i also agree with what was mentioned above that they should be something to look at and not to handle..
bangerang103;1609671; said:
It's not too hard but you have to provide a good size enclosure for a pair. Most breeders start off with a cooling period but it's not always necessary. You then have to stimulate spring by increasing the humidity in the enclosure and add 1 to 2 hours of day light to there light cycle. I used cork bark tubes for my female to lay eggs in. The eggs stick to whatever they've been laid on so you can't remove them with out breaking them. Thats why its good to have removable décor so you can easily place it in an incubator. Tokays have a long incubation time and it can take over 100 days for them to hatch at temperatures between 80 and 85 degrees F. Some eggs have been known to hatch as early as 60 days while others take up to 200 days to hatch.
Vicious_Fish;1609967; said:
Ehh, I just left the eggs in the habitat and let "mom and dad" do their thing.
TokayKeeper;1610253; said:
Yeah, that's how I did with my house geckos but in this case I didn't want anything to happen to the eggs so I removed them from the enclosure.
