HI all,

I just got my first gecko from mattemily.
He is very experienced with geckos and friendly person.
I am a newbie in this hobby.
previously has kept some fishes and hermit crabs, and the equipments like plastic containers and exo-terra dish and hiding rocks still can be use for geckos.





Mattemily thank you for your valuable advice. Don't worry this baby gecko is in safe hands. I will update you the growth progress of this gecko.

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Added on November 28, 2009, 12:45 amI know where I can get crickets and meal worms.

Now i need to know which pet-store that sell reptile calcium supplements.

This post has been edited by blitzboy: Nov 28 2009, 12:45 AM

I need some assistance on which pet-store that sell reptile calcium supplements.

Some progress.

Day 1

Checking out the gecko enclosure overnight.



Close up view. It seems pretty comfortable.

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Added on November 28, 2009, 12:46 pmsorry to all because a bit off topic.
I can recommend you some good books to read, if you are ready to open up your mind and learn.

This post has been edited by blitzboy: Nov 28 2009, 12:46 PM

thank's Izz. So it better be a good, I am also planning to breed them.

I wanna ask are there anyone willing to sell gecko eggs in the market?

I speculate maybe those who have attempted doing that successfully before you did it aren't talking much about it thinking it wasn't anything big anyway.
Something like I keep a chicken in the backyard, the chicken laid an egg and the egg hatched into a chick.

or

It happened before but no one documented it, but you did.

or

maybe at that point of time, no one really paid much attention to geckos as much as we all do today.
Back then hobbyist and keepers are just a niche group. Today with internet This information is spreading like crazy.

when i was in primary school i used to catch that lizards that can climb trees, and run really fast.
It's color ranges from black, grey, to brown. It has claws instead of padded toes, and slim body with a tail very much longer than the rest of its body, the length is slightly below 12 inches.

I show it to my classmates some call it biawak, and some call it cicak gobeng.
Whatever but I manage to tame it, and can held it in my hand without having it struggling to run away.

But really years back hardly anyone ever sees a lizard as a pet, with some exceptions for the iguana.

It takes roughly a week plus of handling and feeding it with insects. i catch ants, crickets and sometimes young cockroaches to feed it.
Until a point i notice that little lizard in the plastic tank became a little lazy. Then i know it is on its way of being tamed, or maybe that lizard already get the idea of having food being hand feed to it, instead of having it to hunt for food. A lot of times the bugs i caught are already halfway dying because i hit it with newspaper before collecting them, which to the lizard is an easy prey.

It will bite sometimes, not as tame as leopard gecko yet, still manageable.

After about a month of keeping it I set it free again, because mom and my teacher keep on saying that it is not meant to be kept but belongs to the wild.

After all these years, I came to know about leopard gecko just about a month ago, I immediately bought one from mattemily. I have revived an interest i used to had since childhood, only difference is now with some money, I can take it to a bigger scale.

This post has been edited by blitzboy: Dec 8 2009, 01:15 PM

I may have kept our local lizards and biawak before, when I was young. I caught them by chance, some from my school field area, and some from the bushes near my previous house.

For leopard geckos I am just getting started.

Calotes versicolor = malay name is cicak gobeng (picture source wikipedia)

Very common lizard, can be found almost anywhere in Malaysia around you hourse backyard, trees, bushes and sometimes can be spotted crossing the road. I have caught it several times before.



Varanus salvator salvator = monitor lizard / biawak

I spotted them several times in the lake side of Subang Jaya park. It's length is slightly more than 1 meter, it can swim very well. It's too big for me to catch it!!! But LOOK how tame it can become. That's A BIG LIZARD !!!

Also it is a very common species in Malaysia and can be spotted near a source of water such as lakes or rivers, they are highly intelligent creatures, and carnivorous. Local fishermen claims that this biawak normally got stuck on their fishing lines, or steals fish from fishing nets or fish traps because their front limbs and fingers are highly nimble.

Hey MIKa,

your gecko is the wild leopard gecko AKA normal leopard gecko right ?

I am looking for a High Yellow Leopard gecko female at around 50g to 70g.
Anyone here willing to sell one to me?
My budget is around RM100 to RM180.

I am still waiting for billygoatz 's reply.

Thanks for helping me. I really appreciate it.

I work in Menara Telekom, and I get to see Farah Fauzana just about everyday.


WHAT ??!!
















The answer : Her advertisement banners and posters are all over the building interior. Hahahaaha

My High Yellow Gecko finally laid ONE egg !!






Temperature monitoring. I think this temperature will produce female.





This hobby is getting me really excited and really interesting after months of hardwork. hehehehehe...
Thank's to echo, billy and matt, for sharing their knowledge with me.

Matt,

Apparently your mack snow drowned in the hatching process, because it must take it first breath that very crucial moment it wakes up from the incubation phase. I have observed other reptiles or even birds hatchings whereby, movement of eggs is visible, and then cracks, the crack later on become a hole, and the young crawl out head first to start breathing air.

Judging from the 2nd photo, you can see that the egg fluid, in the form of mucus wraps all over its face, nostrils and mouth, and therefore causing it unable breath. Cause of death asphyxiation, meaning suffocation, drowned or lack of oxygen by breathing difficulties.

Sorry about your case, it's been hard for you.

I wonder how can we help in the hatching phase?

This post has been edited by blitzboy: Feb 7 2010, 11:19 AM

Gong Xi Fa Cai to every one.

My first batch of gecko hatchlings.

Parent is High Yellow + High Yellow het tremper








I am beginner in this hobby, please help me identify them, because both of them are from the same parent and come out to be totally different color.

This post has been edited by blitzboy: Apr 19 2010, 11:14 PM

I am not plagiarizing. I am just sharing what I know, some of which I read from books and got advised from pros such as echosmiles, billygoatz and mattemily85.
I have experience in keeping pets like fish both freshwater and marine, hermit crabs, dogs, birds, hamsters and rabbits, occasionaly I have kept some lizards which I caught before.

As for leopard geckos, I am just getting started which is why I describe myself as a beginner, and I still got a long way to be pro. and still learning.

This post has been edited by blitzboy: Apr 19 2010, 11:58 PM

So far, none that I have heard of, you can still live up to your claims.

You and your gecko website is already in the spotlight like Star newspaper and on TV , and if there is someone out there has done that before you did, for sure he/she or a local exotic pet supply company will be contacting you real soon, so you can remove those claims.

Just out of curiousity, does taking care of knob-tails are similar to taking of leopard geckos in terms of set-up, food and temperature?

This post has been edited by blitzboy: Apr 20 2010, 12:18 AM