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Q: Small geckos--need to choose a species to raise as feeders.
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Paul White

 

This is a weird one, and I hope it doesn't upset anyone.

I want to get a small group of geckos up and running. Small, inexpensive, easy to breed and prolific--they're going to be used as food for reluctant kingsnakes (and cribos in a year or two!). I'm really not up on all the geckos, was hoping for some suggestions--med gecks, house gecks, other? I've got a 20 high, a 20 long and 2 10 gallons ...I can use--I'd planned on doing the 20 tall with some pothos, climbing branches, etc. in it (no point making thier lives unpleasent after all). But I can sort offspring a bit as needed into the smaller tanks.

Any suggestions on good species? If they're neat that's a plus--small lizards can be fun to watch


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Accepted Answer 1/23/2012 1:04:13 PM

joe farah

Any of those Hemidactylus that are introduced to florida would work well...  H. garnotii is good. They're parthenogenic too so they multiply like crazy

 
Assisted Answer 1/23/2012 1:13:26 PM

joe farah

'course the best feeders for baby kings who won't take mice is baby corn snakes... as i'm sure you know.  In addition to working well, they have added benefit of drawing the condemnation and outright rage of cornsnake lovers

 
Author Comment 1/23/2012 1:16:06 PM

Paul White

Yeah but I dont' breed corns or know anyone really local that does where i could get culls cheap :(  And I dont' really want to breed corns either.

 
Assisted Answer 1/23/2012 1:24:11 PM

joe farah

If you could even get one or two culled baby corns you could keep them in the freezer and try using bits and pieces of them to scent mice. You probably do the same thing with a local garter snake or something...  Just a thought.

 
Assisted Answer 1/23/2012 2:11:25 PM

Tiki108

Yes, I am furious to hear this, just kidding, but I did think when I saw the title you were talking about feeders for your small geckos, like dubias, or something, lol.

Now to answer your question, I've heard either house geckos or anoles are best for stubborn snakes.  never personally raised them, but I hope that helps a little bit.

 
Assisted Answer 1/24/2012 12:45:00 PM

Brandon Osborne
Cheaper to buy. With the money you spend in food for the geckos, and expense of taking care of them, it would be financially beneficial to just buy some wholesale. I've seen anoles for $0.90 each and geckos from $1.00-2.00 each. Shed skin and poop usually work too. Good luck.
 
Assisted Answer 1/24/2012 1:34:04 PM

shellboa

They are a small meal but viper geckos breed like flies and are easy to care for in a small set up. they have a decent  hatch rate and grow rate. 

 
Assisted Answer 1/24/2012 1:35:00 PM

shellboa

p.s. if I get any stills or FTT corns I can let you know.

 
Assisted Answer 1/25/2012 7:57:42 AM

Sylvias

I'll be doing morning geckos in the future when I need reptilian feeders

 
Assisted Answer 1/26/2012 1:01:45 PM

HurricaneJen

I have a small colony of anoles I'm trying out to see if I can get them going for my indo tree boas, if the female does end up popping out babies.  After keeping them for a couple months, I'd say do house geckos - if you set them up right, they'll paste their eggs in suitable places for them to hatch, and you don't have to do anything (this is how we deal with their eggs at work half the time and it works like a dream). 

I also keep dwarf geckos - you can get yellow heads fairly easy, they're small, and SUPER prolific once you get them going.  Again, set them up right and they'll paste their eggs where they can hatch.  I hatch them continually in my tanzanian vivarium, unfortunately my gliding lizards think babies are delicious and they never live more than a few weeks...
But they keep making more, so it's okay. 

 
Assisted Answer 1/27/2012 7:06:52 PM

deadvenom

good species to breed are pictus..they get to be a medium size....bit smaller than a leopard gecko but breed like ccrazy!

 
Assisted Answer 1/29/2012 1:05:48 PM

lauraleellbp

I was gonna recommend Mourning geckos too- don't take up much room and would probably be great for hatchling kings, since the gecko hatchlings are so tiny.  They're parthogenic too so don't have to worry about keeping track of sex or bloodlines to keep the stock healthy.

 
Assisted Answer 2/3/2012 4:14:10 PM

Tinaoco

go to an apartment complex come spring and there should be tons of medeteranian geckos on the walls.

 
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