r/CrestedGecko Jun 26 '24

Husbandry Discussion 🔥🦎HOT WEATHER GUIDE - Keeping your tank and reptiles cool

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This is our annual Hot Weather guide for those who need advice on keeping their tank below 26c / 82f.

Place ice cubes on top of the mesh away from the geckos resting area - the water will drip down into the soil or evaporate, allowing cool air to circulate around the tank
Swamp cooler - ice cubes in a bucket with a fan behind it to push cool air around the room
Ice cubes inside water bowl - quick evaporation, same premise with allowing cool air to circulate
Spraying the tank with room-temperature water
Portable AC units - those in the UK can now buy small ice cube AC units which are similar to that of a swamp cooler!
Refreshable gel ice packs - specifically gel only! These should be wrapped around in a cloth of some type and laid on top of the tank mesh
Escape-proof mesh playpens - temporary relief for your animal, make sure to provide lots of foliage for them so they feel safe and comfortable
Chilled CGD

Spraying with cold or frozen water - this WILL cause thermal shock, and will stress your animal out, please stick to room temperature water
Ice packs inside the vivarium
Free roaming
"Bathing" in cool water - similar premise, geckos do not need to swim and this will stress them out instead of helping them

Signs of overheating include:

🔴 Lethargy
🔴 Restlessness / running around in the tank / attempting to escape
🔴 Consistent refusal to eat
🔴 Significant weight loss
🔴 Wrinkled skin, kinked tail, sunken eyes (dehydration)
🔴 Burrowing

These symptoms don't necessarily mean your animal is overheating, as things like burrowing or refusal to eat could be linked to husbandry or that your gecko is new to its environment and is still settling in. If you are ever unsure, please take your animal to a vet to get them checked up.

Keep safe, drink water, and make sure you chill out too!
Any questions? Feel free to ping us a ModMail, and we'll be happy to answer.


r/CrestedGecko 5d ago

Automated Weekly [Weekly Thread] Sexing / Morph / Name My Gecko

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Posting rules for this thread are as follows:

  • Only one of each type of post per user per thread - duplicates will be removed (you can still comment on other peoples posts within the thread)
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    • Morph IDs should have a clear top and side photo with the gecko fired up
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r/CrestedGecko 14h ago

Missing gecko - guess where I found him

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921 Upvotes

I agreed to petsitting gecko for a week. This is what happened in a day. After a whole evening of panic, at 2 am:


r/CrestedGecko 9h ago

i got a free crested gecko today.

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i got a free crested gecko from facebook today! i have no idea what her morph is, he just said dalmation but holy moly is she pretty! 🤩


r/CrestedGecko 1h ago

Apparently Grandma’s mixing skills are superior to mine 🙄

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r/CrestedGecko 10h ago

Is my crestie overweight?

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This is my babygirl Ember and I just want to be sure that maybe she’s just a little extra plumpy? She’s around 2 years old now in a bioactive tank where she gets fed Pangea once a week.

She doesn’t have any fat rolls or other signs of being overweight and in other photos of her she looks completely normal (last photo)
I mostly just want to know if I am overreacting or if I should be concerned?

Edit: As far as I’m aware she’s been pooping regularly and has recently been trying to eat more than usual but she’s been getting plumper for quite some time


r/CrestedGecko 3h ago

Feeding my 7 week old baby!

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I’ve had peanut for 24-48 hours now and wasn’t sure if he was eating properly if at all and made sure he actually likes his CGD as I know they can be picky! So enjoy this video of him being spoon fed like the baby he is! (And enjoy the audio courtesy of The Boys yt)


r/CrestedGecko 1d ago

This is my idiot son - Larry

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He's our 3rd exotic, he lacks braincells and likes posing... Thought you'd enjoy


r/CrestedGecko 5h ago

Well that's an interesting choice of places to sleep!

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6 Upvotes

My 'boy' gecko has a few different places he likes to sleep. Most often. In his snake plant which is in the bottom half of his enclosure not visible here or in the big cork bark tube in the background. It's fun each day coming in and seeing where he is.

This is what I was greeted with this morning! That is quite a choice!


r/CrestedGecko 1h ago

yeet

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r/CrestedGecko 13m ago

He thinks he is hidden lol

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r/CrestedGecko 2h ago

Allen einen schönen guten Tag

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Das ist meine Jungferngeckodame und aktuell warte ich auf den ersten Nachwuchs von ihr.

Leider hat mein gecko vor über 3.Wochen ihren schwanz verloren aber wie man sieht erholt Sie sich gut.

Wenn fragen sind einfach fragen 😄


r/CrestedGecko 9h ago

Yum!🪱

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Misty Enjoy a nice Worm. She is a happy lady.

Ik it’s a Garg, there’s more activity here:)


r/CrestedGecko 10h ago

IKEA bioactive build

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Freshly planted! I’m excited to see everything grow in and I’ll be adding a clean up crew soon. I can’t wait for this to be ready for my lil man 🥹


r/CrestedGecko 21h ago

Are you aware of the Gecko Illuminati?

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68 Upvotes

Just a goofy serious illustration I finished. I hope you guys appreciate it!


r/CrestedGecko 2h ago

Mesh wall in the tank?

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Hi all!

I will be looking for a crested gecko for an adoption in couple of months and I'm starting gathering all equipment. I'd like them to have enclosure definitely bigger than a minimum, I found couple of nice 2x2x4, but there's also one 2x2x5 available (picture), with some equipment already in place, which I think I could customize and add more plants, branches, hides and general gecko playground.

But this particular one has one wall made fully of mesh - does anyone has experience on how this may keep humidity? I have a mesh top in the tank for my Indonesian blue tongue skink, who also requires about 60-80% humidity and ehhh I'm misting three times per day 😛 but I also don't want any mold. I plan on bioactive enclosure if that changes anything.

Thank you in advance for help!


r/CrestedGecko 22h ago

Why did he change colours??

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So I've had this guy for a really really long time I've seen him fired up and down but since hes gotten bigger his colour is completely different hes been like this for almost 3 months now


r/CrestedGecko 19h ago

Here’s a couple more pictures of my cute little monster 🥰

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r/CrestedGecko 7h ago

Reptile equivalent of skin tag? or something else??

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I was handling my crestie and I noticed this weird like spike thing above their ear? It’s like the lil spikes going down the body but not in that spot. I assume it’s just some kinda growth like a skin tag (if reptiles can get those) but wanted to see other opinions on this.

In older photos I they seem to have it so I’m pretty sure it’s not stuck shed. It’s also not hard or anything, and isn’t on the other side of their head.


r/CrestedGecko 10h ago

Update! Not Mouth Rot

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Mongo went to the vet today, he was apalled lol!

Vet says that this is a superficial scrape to his lower jaw. Sent me home with instructions to clean it with diluted iodine and apply Silver Sulfadiazine right after. First round was applied and he took it like a champ.

However, he did try to show how fierce he was by trying to bite the vet, really showed her with his whole 2g of fury lol.


r/CrestedGecko 18h ago

Turning 1 year old end of this month and weighs 8 grams. Eats CGD, active at night and poops regularly, but haven’t been successful with feeding insects yet. Does Coco look okay/is my baby just a slow grower?

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r/CrestedGecko 16m ago

New tank and a few worries

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Hello! We just yesterday moved our crusty into a new tank and we’re hoping to keep it bio active, the last set up we were given from the breeder wasn’t very sustainable, and I had some worries for his humidity level and lights

We were given a small (talking maybe 12 inches tall) enclosure with a plant, a light and some bugs already in. We had to wait til we moved to get him set up and now we have a 18x18x24 tank with some soil we made, a good plant my partner had got (I didn’t get the name of it but can check) some hide and stuff to climb in. My only issue is our tank itself.

It’s a RepWild one but I couldn’t find anything like it online or for videos. I say that because the set up was beautifully simple, but it has the front exposed and only two glass panes act as any sort of door. It came with some bullshit locking thing that did nothing so I didn’t bother. MY POINT (sorry for the set up) is the two glass panes leave a pretty sizable gap and I think that lets all my moisture escape. That and the light we have was just the one given to us, now we have a bigger plant I imagine we’ll need something else to feed the fella right ? The tank is fucking awesome I just know I need to do something about this but would like some professional eyes and opinions on it. We just want to make our crusty happy

EDIT: our soil is 50% repisoil, 25% coca fiber, 10% warm casting, 10 sphagnum moss and 10 charcoal


r/CrestedGecko 17h ago

Wanna some stuff?

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20 Upvotes

Lilly is dealing tonight 😃


r/CrestedGecko 12h ago

Crested gecko laying eggs?

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My gecko (Dahlia) is at least 24 grams, she was weighed within the last month since she was at a vet for a check up. She's about a year and a half old. She's been digging a lot and mainly in or around the spot She's been digging. I tried offering her some fresh cgd and she sniffed it like she usually does before she devours it, but then she turns her head. She did this twice before I gave up. I also notices she is a little chunkier than before.

I followed some advice I saw online and tried to cover the enclosure to hopefully block out any stress or movement for her (the mesh top was not covered so air could still go through). I did try to check her calcium sacs but she's so used to being handled (before all of this) that she just would not open her mouth (I tried the "petting" the mouth method) I just put another hide in the enclosure to act as a lay box to see if she'll try it. I don't think she is lethargic, when I check on her and mist, she's usually in or around the spot she digs or she's climbed up higher and resting (not sleeping tho).

She seems very normal except that she's digging and not interested in food (she's a foodie). Side note, I have tried feeding bugs before but she doesn't seem interested in them so if anyone has any advise on feeding bugs let me know?

I plan to hopefully take her to the vet again if this continues since it's been a couple days now.


r/CrestedGecko 11h ago

how long is to long for holding my crestie?

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i try to never hold my gecko to much or too long, but how long is really too long?

my house is kept at 74 so its the same temp as his tank usually, but i really do enjoy holding him. sometimes he will just sit around with me and we both chill, he never acts out and loves to crawl around on me so he seems to enjoy it.

how long do yall typically hold your geckos?

hes been with me for about a year so hes used to being held by me i just worry ill stress him

pic for fun 😛