Geckos
We have a small collection of Geckos. Geckos really are fascinating little reptiles, they have the most wonderful eyes, soon I will put up a page solely composed of close-up photographs of gecko eyes.
This is our pair of Bibron's Geckos (Pachydactylus bibroni)
Our male White Lined Gecko (Gekko vittatus), it is in the same family as the Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko). White Lines are less vicious then the Tokay and far less vocal, however they are not the friendliest of Geckos. Still they are quite attractive with their bright white stripe down their backs. Their babies are just beautiful, with really bright crisp white lines on an almost milk chocolate background.
A baby White Lined hatching out, White Lines lay their eggs on the
glass walls or sturdy branches of their enclosure, this makes it almost
impossible to remove them. Although some people remove the adults from the
enclosure as soon as the eggs are laid, we have found that this is totally unnecessary
as the babies hatch and stay close to their parents, with no ill effects, and it
is probably quite beneficial for them. That coupled with the fact that the
female lays a pair of eggs every two weeks for the breeding season means a lot
of aquariums. You do need to be very careful about adding more than a pair
to a single enclosure. It is not possible to put together two males for
very long and we have found that the females can be just as aggressive toward
another female. We would only recommend keeping pairs together.
However we found that these geckos can be mixed with other species, like the
Bibron's pictured above, who get along just fine with each other and their
babies.
Phelsuma are also wonderful geckos to keep and a real plus is that they are active during the day, hence the name: Day Geckos.
Uroplatus are a group of some of the most interesting and cryptic geckos, they gained the name Leaf Tail Geckos quite genuinely.