To break up the constant stream of baby skink photos (there’s more coming, no worries) here’s some pictures of the geckos living here at ME 🙂
Yesterday was cleaning/feeding day for the geckos. I have three groups of young geckos here:
My patternless fat tails:
My caramel fat tails:
And my whiteout group of fat tails:
While I cleaned out their bins the geckos got a short bath. Unlike the baby skinks, the fatties do not get regular baths – they actually notice each other and must be watched very closely (I don’t want any underaged breeding during bath time). One benefit of the bath though is I get to help out with any leftover shed. This time two geckos had a bit of shed on their toes, and one had some shed on her head:
The toe shed is super easy to remove, but the head shed took a bit of extra effort. Thanks to a small piece of wet paper towel and a moist q-tip, she was back to her usual gorgeous self in no time:
While the geckos were in the bath, I cleaned out their bins. The bins were pretty dirty to start with:
Everything is removed, the geckos are put in the bath, and I get to work doing a quick scrub-down of the bins:
Then the bins get new paper towel (lightly sprayed) and the moist hide is soaked down and replaced. Before going home the geckos get a quick cuddle/checked for shed:
Clean gecko bins:
For feeding times all my geckos get a nice yummy dish of mealworms, lightly dusted with calcium-plus:
Happy geckos:
I also have a group of three adult fat tails living together in a large PVC tank. The male only eats frozen/thawed pinky mice, but I’m trying to convert him over. This group also got fed and I took a few quick photos:
Lastly, and not a gecko, my boa Pooch also got fed. He’s a hungry little bugger now, and tried to rush me when I was taking too long to give him his rat, lol. He’s a wonderful snake, and I’m glad he’s finally got his appetite turned on 😀
I hope you’re enjoying these little peaks into life here at ME. I promise there’s more baby photos on the way!
