He definitely should have mentioned that the 80% is with open air. Keeping 80% and the means by which you do so could be a horrible living condition in an enclosure. Some keepers don’t think about this. If you have two different species of animals from different locations, and they both have an ideal humidity of 80%. That doesn’t mean you can necessarily create it the same way. These things aren’t emphasized enough.
This is absolutely amazing. I love seeing people go to the locations that reptiles are from to see what their actual habitat is like. This just proves many of my thoughts of husbandry misconceptions. Thanks! Have a great day
I am a complete noob when it comes to reptiles, but this has been my feeling since getting into it. SO many things that seem to be stuck just because its been the standard for so long. Even though it 100% seems so easy to just look at nature and do that, so many are not willing to even consider it because "we havent done it for twenty years". Well, if you havent thought about it for twenty years, maybe it time to start doing so.
So I know I'm a year late to this, but here it goes: -Keeping an 80% or higher humidity is risky because it promotes the growth of fungi and bacteria inside a highly controlled closed system like a tub or a glass terrarium. And that can be detrimental for the gecko, potentially getting them sick. It's widely different in its effect from humidity levels outdoors. -80 degrees is very good but it doesn't really go any higher than that in the wild, the risk with temperature is that they are a lot more tolerant of slight cold than they are of actual heat. Room temperature isn't really the same as in the isle of pines but they can very much thrive in it. If the specimen was wild caught (which none of them are nowadays, thankfully) then they might struggle with adapting to your temps. But they're not, they were born in lower temps. Such a thing doesn't seem to have any effect on their health other than their growth rate being slower than in the wild and being more prone to obesity (different metabolism). We can control their weight and nutrition with their diet and and wait a bit longer for reproduction. This isn't at all a nab at this video, on the contrary, it's meant to provide perspective, which is something we all need. I think it's incredible that you made that trip and I'm thankful for the amazing content you're always providing us, Dave.
David LS - likewise is you took our many generations removed captive bred geckos and just dumped them on The Isle of Pines they’d definitely have some acclimation to do. (For one thing all the other adults would shun them for their tails 😂)
Any good care guide will recommend periods of high humidity with drops down to 50-60%. Glass terrariums do NOT hold humidity well. It's just a fact. It's why people go to lengths to alter them with glass inserts and HVAC tape to maintain better levels.
@@uglyloner8983 I had a juvenile gecko eat his paper substrate, at least twice! Had to keep him on a bare plastic bottom until he moved into his fully bioactive tank (where the substrate is covered by leaves, plants, big pieces of cork bark, stones and so on).
exscape my gecko is a devil and will run if I try to clean his cage. His previous owners never held him so he is super skittish. He basically has a panic attack and runs all over if I get close to him. This has had Times of him ending up on the wall. Do you have any advice anyone. Please help. So now I keep him on bare bottom cage so it’s easier to clean but it’s still awful for both parties
This was such an awesome video, thank you for sharing this info! I think my biggest concern with captive crested geckos is how many people think they don't eat live insects. It's a very important part of their diet. I did notice how the wild crested gecko had a very lean and muscular body. Makes our pets look a little fat 😅
It actually makes me sad that the majority of pet owners and hobbyists have allowed themselves to be blindly influenced to have their pets solely rely on these commercial, processed foods. In this case, these mixes... have most people not even asked themselves how these Geckos get their dairy in the wild? That's what's in those mixes, together with heavily processed fruits that are not as bioactively organic as fresh food. They need live insects with non-denatured proteins, and fresh fruit with living nutrients, enzymes, etc. I give my Gecko a mix of different fruits and insects all year round with varying proportions and variety.
Agree. I tried feeding just cgd without good results. My geckos were growing very slowly and barely taking a few licks of their cgd. Came across an article that said to rotate. Night 1 cgd, Night 2 crickets and leave cgd. Night 3 remove cgd feed nothing. Night 4 start over at night 1. This did wonders for all of my crested and gargoyle geckos. Not only did they devour the crickets but they would clean their cgd bowls on Night 1. It increased their appetite, were more active and they started to grow much quicker.
@@jacobaddesso5395 From my experience those that don't take them will eventually take them with enthusiasm if you continue to offer them.This isn't to say there isn't those that won't... I just haven't seen it. Most try a few times then give up. I had a gargoyle that took several months before he ate them. Now he is the one who goes the craziest at feeding time. He will attack water droplets thinking they are crickets
I will tell you right now, all of you, crested geckos can die super fast if they go too long without water. I beg you, do not learn the hard way, always have a water supply for them, with all my heart I’m very serious, if you do one thing make it that. God bless. Love your vids bro.
That's how my crestie passed, a friend was pet sitting and forgot to refill her little bowl and thought the misting would be enough. It was a few years ago but man I loved that little gecko :'(
Alice Dayton I lost 2 of them from dehydration, worst ever. Ppl have no idea how fast it can happen, and how long it will haunt you if you love animals like we do.
Great video! My 2 female crested geckos will be 19 and 20 years old this year. I wonder what the longest lived crested on record is! I keep them in a 22 gal Tall tank with an artificial tree, and a food/water bowl up high, next to an inner wall of the house that still gets enough indirect window light. Their substrate is organic topsoil with peat moss, cheap and easy items to get at a garden store. They've been raised on Repashy Crested gecko diet. I've tried other diets but this seems best all around. They get cricket and mealworm treats here and there, and overripe banana or peach sometimes. My temp/humidity devices broke long ago, but I have a feel for what works.
@@ocavant how did you manage to have a mean crestie lol, were you like beating it or something? All people I've ever come in contact with a crestie never have an issue for more than the first month maybe.
I'm convinced my gecko is deaf, he is almost 3 and still has his tail, my dog has barked at him because he was being loud in the middle of the night and he couldn't care less, I got him when I was 11 or 12 and I always had loud friends coming around and he was fine, he is seriously the best. Also thunder doesn't scare him at all. I got him from petsmart and so I wouldn't be surprised if he had some issues but I still love him!
It's the wild ones that are pretty much guaranteed to lose it. With a captive bred one they can sometimes be less skittish since they've never really needed to know fear like that and have no real concern for predators.
I am so happy you went to the homeland of the cresties! This has been super insightful. What you were saying about the fruit ripening this time of year etc. makes me believe this is why my guy isnt as interested in his bugs this time of year. Make sense!
This is all great info Dav and I'm SUPER jealous!!! This also goes to show how we've changed their appearance through selective breeding in such a SHORT time!!!! Whoa! Makes me think of the wild dogs vs. our fat fuzzy pekinese and shih tzus here :)
I watched this video about a year ago, I did a casual experiment with my crestie on his diet. So I got him in the summer he was obsessed with bugs and then by September-maybe February he only wanted Pangea. So I think he still has that internal clock
Awesome video, this is great to know on the temp & humidity that I have been doing things correctly with my own Crested Geckos on the temp & humidity. Really great video Dav. Thank you for taking the time to go there.
Thanks for this great video! I have been doing so much research before purchasing a created gecko and by far this is the most educational video! I received more info in only 11 min than the hrs I’ve watched in other videos!!
Here's my two cents on the matter. When we compare wild animals with captive animals of the same species, we will notice a sharp difference in life spans and quality of life. Wild animals live shorter lives with high amounts of stress and the circumstances of which the animal has no choice of being comfortable. Let's take the crested gecko, adult wild crested geckos lose their tails because they are/were in a high stress/fear situations. We know this because we have captive cresties that have been in both stress filled and non stress filled situations and we noticed that those that lived a life with low stress will keep their tails. Now let's look at the weather of any habitable place. You'll notice that humans naturally prefer a certain temperature range that makes them "comfortable", "tolerable" and "uncomfortable". Being acclimatized to an area can change those temperatures under those categories but not by much. You'll notice for example that someone that has lived their whole life in Ecuador would find the summers of Canada to be "chilly" and will dress warmer than the rest of the population. Now just because this person finds Canada to be chilly, doesn't mean that they are "comfortable" with the temperatures of Ecuador either. Ecuador is a very hot and humid place and heat stroke is a very real danger. So just because they experience 104° as a norm, it doesn't mean that they expose themselves to those temperatures. You'll find them inside with a fan or AC on blast while drinking lots of fluids not only for safety reasons but because they are also feeling "uncomfortable" with the temperatures. So although they are surviving those temperatures, the weather isn't ideal. This applies to all animals. Zoologists have noticed that captive animals thrive in certain temperatures in comparison to their wild kin. Take polar bears for example, in the wild polar bears struggle to live because the temperatures aren't cold enough for them during the summer season while their captive kin who experience controlled temperatures thrive year round. That's why you can find emaciated bears in the summer but have perfectly healthy bears in winter in the wild. Granted that in part its due to climate change but New Caledonia isn't the exception to climate change either if we went with that rebuttal. For all we know, that 80° 80% combo is actually unbearable for the geckos and is a result of climate change. In the end, if we're going to look at wild habitats for ways to better care for an animal we should do so with a grain of salt. Wild animals are surviving, captive animals thrive. Its why 84% of captive animals have significantly longer lifespans with more playful and relaxed behaviors than their wild of kin. Zoologists do their best to find the appropriate living conditions of captive animals and hence why we have such a high number of longer living captive animals. Now not every captive animal lives longer (elephants live significantly shorter lives in captivity than they do in the wild), but it is believed that these animals live shorter lives because the conditions of captivity aren't geared to making the animal more comfortable and its more geared to human accessibility and comfort around the animal (so that people can see elephants in an all too small enclosure, get the elephant to do tricks for people while being chackled the rest of the time or forced to do manual labor for humans for many years).
My temps in my bedroom/gecko room is usually around 75-78 even 80 sometimes I noticed when my temps were 70-72 they weren't eating as much, they weren't growing as fast and as soon as I bumped those temps there was more activity, they eat every night, and they're growing nearly three times as fast!
Awesome! I really enjoyed the new format and after this one episode you’re definitely one of my favourite reptile channels! It’s amazing how much captive breeding has changed the appearance of crested geckos. In the hobby, a bald, buckskin, tailless, long-snouted crested gecko is probably the last crested gecko a breeder would look for... but that’s exactly what nature has selected.
So you take temp and humidity readings 1 time in a year and extrapolate what we should do all year long with our geckos...? I mean great commitment but let's get some year round readings, right?
I have not been keeping these long, but it took only a couple weeks for me to start questioning the advice we are getting from crested gecko breeders and crested gecko Facebook groups. I have noticed that my females who are kept around 79-81 have a larger appetite than my male who is kept slightly cooler. It would be one thing if it was only 1 of my females that acted differently, but it’s both. This suggest to me that the general advice shared about these geckos is wrong, or, outdated. I was told that they don’t need UVB but you can use a low percentage. So I got a Arcadia shade dweller 5%. I was told that this is dangerous. So I got a Arcadia 2.4%. I placed it inside because I don’t have mesh in this case (temp set up until I get their concerted display case done). I was told this this is dangerous and hurts their eyes and will burn their skin. But that doesn’t make sense either. The 2.4% is very low. If you put it on mesh, even if it’s right on top, you will reduce the percentage of UVB they get. Studies show that UVB is good for life, in general. I rather have a UVB light inside than no UVB at all. I have found that my geckos like to lay under the light. If the light was harmful, hence causes pain, a healthy gecko will move. Even though mine have a ton of spots to hide, they still at times prefer being closer to the light. Once they have had enough, they simply move. I’m equally noticing that they are likely bigger bug eaters than people think. We may be giving them less bugs than they would normally eat in the wild. Mine right now are big crazy and less interested in their CGD. I’ve been advised to starve them until they eat the CGD. But I refuse to do that. I can gut load the crickets. I prefer for them to eat than starve as I feel that is abusive. Its October, which means that it’s spring where they are from. Given this fruit thing, that would mean that this is still bug season. Which is so far proving to be accurate with how many bugs they want. At this rate with the old data that breeders especially spread around, I don’t even know how y’all can turn this around so these guys are kept right. Also, never bought into the “baby crested geckos are scared so they need a shoebox sized tub to live in” or “they need paper towels and a small enclosure so you can watch them”….why? I can simply take them out and weight them weekly to monitor if they are eating. I can also see lick marks in their food. They are so big crazy right now they’ll come out with the lights on and start chasing them around, I can watch that. I can find poop on leaves. Another one is “they can get impacted by keeping them on anything but paper towels”. Umm, I ensure you, they aren’t putting down paper towels to eat in the wild lol.
Hello, wonderful response! I do want to add and respond to your comment on the UVB. The feeling of UVB is felt as warmth since it is simply radiation. As such, a gecko (or any lizard) may not notice until they receive burns. Its the reason we get sunburns and not notice until its too late. Its becoming more and more common in the veterinary field to see reptiles come in with burns from excessive UVB, and current literature suggests that vitamin D metabolism benefits amazingly well from 30 mins of exposure.
All of our crested geckos still have their tails! And we have six! Going on four years now. With dogs and a loud family. We keep them in the common area and three we raised from hatchlings. I love it! They are so sweet.
I was wondering about your readings. Did you take several? Were the numbers you showed a consistent, or an average, or just the two? Were they generally found at the expected height? Love the seasonal diet thought. I hope there's more to the subject.
Just got back into the hobby after a 10 year break. It is so much different now. Their is so much more information available and products you can get to are fantastic. If I would have been like this when I got out of it I Might not have done so.
I’m late on this but this was really interesting! Totally agree with the room temp thing. That’s totally relative to where you live, cause I’m telling you now, room temp in the south west UK even in the height of summer ain’t even close to 26C 🤣 My little dude is in a bioactive 45x45x60(cm) and during the night it’s so cool to hear him jumping about his enclosure, one minute amongst the plants on what would be the forest floor to climbing up high into his coconut house above the canopy. Anyone that says these guys need little space because they ‘get scared’ is lying to themselves. Especially in captivity, sure they might not understand in the way we do, but they’re not stupid, they quickly realise that they are the king of their castle, he’s the apex predator in his kingdom and to be honest, I’d like to go taller the minute I have the space myself! Believe me they use their space to it’s max at night. I very rarely get him out to be honest, just looking after the little dude is enjoyment enough ✌🏼 When me and my wife buy our first place, I’m gonna have to hold back on setting up another enclosure, cause I can see how this hobby can quickly run away from you! Cheers my man!
I've been saving for a New Caledonia trip for years! So glad to see a fellow herper made it! While you're there, see if you can find any chameleon geckos!
I hope you stopped with that rewind sound, that was audio assault. Would be curious to see if anyone has studied room temperature versus 80° enclosure kept crested geckos lifespans, I've had one loose in the house for 6 months at a time who I just found under a leaking toilet downstairs last week and he was as chunky as his girlfriend is who was fed continuously and I keep them at room temperature, they do like pill bugs, was thinking of trying earthworms with as much snot washed off as possible, another Channel mentioned the possibility of snails as the Satan leaf tail gecko has them in their diet. I have Ram's Horn snails in excess from my aquariums and we'll see what happens
My tank has a temperature gradient of 90 degrees F to 70 degrees F so my little ones can thermal regulate to their hearts content ☺️ I use a 25W halogen bulb to do this and he seems to enjoy it. I leave it on for 12 hours and then turn it off for 12 hours. He’s a very active gecko so I think it works for him. I also keep my humidity at about 70-80% and I can achieve this just with misting the tank really well 3-4 times a day. But I also live where the relative humidity in my room is 50-60% so his humidity really wouldn’t get that low 😂
Thank you ☺️ I also have a pretty decent layer of eco earth as substrate with various mods throughout the enclosure to help hold the humidity which has helped a lot
I’ve got my baby crested 4 and half grams in a 12x12x24 iches Exo tall with eco soil topped with a layer of dried leaves and all the Usual decorations with cork bark and leaves . ( Previously I kept it in a small tank ] misting morning & have it night 24 C during the day and 21 C at night . With a 10 hour shadedweller UVB light . It’s doing much better and finding it’s food easy enough 😊
Thank you so much for stating the truth that room temperature is not adequate for these beautiful gecko's....shame on all pet shops for telling customers that this animal doesn't need heating equipment and just mist them and they will be fine.😠😠😠😠... thank you.
I have a bioactive tank with 4-5 inches of soil and moss for my crestie. I know right on the soil, the humidity is in the 90s, so I'm fine withe the air humidity dropping to the 60s. It's usually between 75-80 humidity. The only light/heat I have on the tank is an arcadia shadedweller, which gets a hotspot of 80 degrees. She seems happy.
I wonder how the climate there changes throughout the year? I love that you're out there looking for ways to improve our care of these amazing animals. Great vid! I'm looking forward to what you share next.
It actually changes quite a bit from highs of 84° during the summer and night lows of 61° and day highs of 71° during the winter. At night during the summer it gets down to the low 70s, so keeping them over 80° at all times is too warm. It's also, less humid during the dry season around 60% when it isn't raining.
@@davidhopman7227 on isle of pines there's actually a bigger difference than in Noumea. It gets a bit warmer in the summer, and a bit colder in the winter
Very informative, i've always been a believer that the current trend of 60 - 75f thats gets thrown around as "room" temp is on the cool side for them, i've provided basking spots of 80f with a gradient to the bottom for a good few years now and they use every inch of the temp gradient.
Hey Dav. It was such a pleasure meeting you yesterday. When you told me you were doing a show about crested geckos and new caledonia, I thought to myself that you had already done one, but I didn't know if I was wrong. However, I had to check today... 😂 here we are!
Hoping to get most of ours onto a bio setup once money's sorted out, can't wait tbh. Struggling to find plants to use though 🤔 especially native to where the animals are from.
My geckos tank stays between ~74-82 and spikes at 85-90% 15 minutes or so after his misters go of for 16 seconds then after the four hours it has normally gone down to ~60-65% plus the several bowls of water and other thing help keep humidity around there so I think my set up is pretty darn good
Omg I guess it’s New Caledonia in my house LOL... it’s usually 80 at about 70% humidity. I live near the ocean about 6hrs from FL 🤣. I did have a Crestie that lived about 10 years and simply up its humidity.
80% is ok but not long term it can cause mold and other bacteria to grow I would say 60-70% is better long term and 80 degrees should be the max , anything over that for a crested gecko in a tank is too hot, 70-78 is perfect for cresties. So turn their lights off if it gets over ! I’m in California and the heat wave caused it to get to 85 almost so I turned the lights off and it’s down to 70-75 again
Excellent vid - was 100% going to show my 6 year old who's just getting into reptiles with his first Crestie this.... Until you spliced in the clown from IT! Please upload a clean version, it's such a good educational piece and a shame I can't show it to my kids.
Thanks so much for this video! I am setting most of my reptiles up as natural and bioactive as I can and the information I can get from your visit to New Caledonia is priceless. I will be looking forward to seeing what else you experienced.
I know natural habitat is essential for healthy wild caught animals in captivity but, after generations of captive breeding, could it be that those offspring im captiviry have adapted to the suggested captive environment to the point that a New Caledonia specific habitat could caause them some stress if changed suddenly from breed standard captove habitats. I mean, it has been shown that invasive species Iguanas in Florida have adapted to tolerate temperatures almost 10°F lower than their natural habitat counterparts elsewhere in the world during outdoor winter time Florida cold snaps before their demise. The natural habitat norms of lizards while in captivity is important to preserve in the first place though so, perhaps people should start incorperating the name of an animals geographic origin when they say their name to help aid potential owners. i.e.- New Caledonian Arboreal Crested Forest Gecko. This would also not only help in researching a pets habitat/climate needs but theor niche in it and possible natural food sources as well. People hearing it would know to, for example, look for the climate conditions along with flora and fauna of New Calidonian forests to keep their crested Gecko happy and healthy. Maybe info like that could be burnt into people's minds from the minute they hear a species' name spoken by a responsible breeder. Maybe everyone should be saying that when introducing their pets.... New Caledonian Arboreal Crested Forest Gecko sounds cooler anyways.
Hello. Total noob here. I just have my first tank and bioactive set up in the mail. I have question to ask? What is you opinion on using lichens and mosses in vivaria (? Sorry not my first language)? And if you use them. What types are Best to use in crested geckos vivaria?
The room temp and misting thing was probably all for marketing and sales purposes. But I also think it's conservative to have people think that room temp is correct, especially since it urges people to bring the temperature down in the summer when it can go beyond 80deg f which would be lethal for the gecko.
Maybe once their population rebounds, a small import of some wild geckos can be sent to the US so breeders can use them to outcross the breeding population of captive geckos.
I know this is a 2 year old video but maybe I'll get lucky and someone will see this and answer my question. From an evolutionary view, what is the point or purpose of having a tail that drops so easily AND doesn't grow back? Does the tail just serve no purpose?
Where do you get the information crested geckos lose their tails due to dogs barking etc? Isn't it much more likely a) escaping predators b) fighting when mating just like in captivity? Also there was a baby crested gecko with its tail in the exo terra documentary which would suggest to me also it's not their stupid reactions that make them drop the tail.. honestly I might just have been very lucky with my geckos and the other one's I've seen and handled but I don't get where this idea comes from that crested geckos just drop their tails out of nowhere, I suspect a lot of people handle them carelessly and then pretend like it "just happened".
What about plants for a vivarium? I've been trying to get info on what types of plants are on the isle of pines and i cant even find pictures in google. Looks like possible ferns? Palms? Banana?
Is there someone with a knack for botany here that would be able to identify some of the plants shown? Specifically the one at 5:46 for example? I'd really appreciate that. I'm setting up a bioactive tank and if I can get the exact same plants they have in their natural habitat, I will try to accommodate that (unless it's a friggin tree of course)
I want to be some one like you or brave wilderness when I’m older. Retptes and arachnids fascinate me and I are ant to be and explorer like you or an ecologist. I also have my own crested gecko and that’s why I love this video
Ambient temperature and humidity is not an accurate reading of what is comfortable for them most often I can guarantee it's not that temperature or humidity where the bulk of them will be throughout the day being twilight animals.
I was under the understanding that crested gecko stopped eating insects once they are full grown? I only offer pangea fruit diet and stopped offering crickets and dubias a year ago? Am I in the twilight zone or have I been doing it all wrong
Anyone else wanted him to climb up into the trees and see if there was any change in humidity/temp? No? Just me?
*quietly sneaks away*
Me lol
He definitely should have mentioned that the 80% is with open air. Keeping 80% and the means by which you do so could be a horrible living condition in an enclosure. Some keepers don’t think about this. If you have two different species of animals from different locations, and they both have an ideal humidity of 80%. That doesn’t mean you can necessarily create it the same way. These things aren’t emphasized enough.
i'm surprised at how docile the wild ones are
mine runs for his life, I wish I could touch him like that
This is absolutely amazing. I love seeing people go to the locations that reptiles are from to see what their actual habitat is like. This just proves many of my thoughts of husbandry misconceptions. Thanks! Have a great day
Glad you liked it! Most of my trips from now on will revolve around finding cool well known reptiles in the wild.
I am a complete noob when it comes to reptiles, but this has been my feeling since getting into it. SO many things that seem to be stuck just because its been the standard for so long. Even though it 100% seems so easy to just look at nature and do that, so many are not willing to even consider it because "we havent done it for twenty years". Well, if you havent thought about it for twenty years, maybe it time to start doing so.
I love how you just picked up a random wild crested gecko and it was chill. Theyre such funny creatures XD
So I know I'm a year late to this, but here it goes:
-Keeping an 80% or higher humidity is risky because it promotes the growth of fungi and bacteria inside a highly controlled closed system like a tub or a glass terrarium. And that can be detrimental for the gecko, potentially getting them sick. It's widely different in its effect from humidity levels outdoors.
-80 degrees is very good but it doesn't really go any higher than that in the wild, the risk with temperature is that they are a lot more tolerant of slight cold than they are of actual heat. Room temperature isn't really the same as in the isle of pines but they can very much thrive in it. If the specimen was wild caught (which none of them are nowadays, thankfully) then they might struggle with adapting to your temps. But they're not, they were born in lower temps. Such a thing doesn't seem to have any effect on their health other than their growth rate being slower than in the wild and being more prone to obesity (different metabolism). We can control their weight and nutrition with their diet and and wait a bit longer for reproduction.
This isn't at all a nab at this video, on the contrary, it's meant to provide perspective, which is something we all need. I think it's incredible that you made that trip and I'm thankful for the amazing content you're always providing us, Dave.
David LS - likewise is you took our many generations removed captive bred geckos and just dumped them on The Isle of Pines they’d definitely have some acclimation to do.
(For one thing all the other adults would shun them for their tails 😂)
Thats why you should always have good ventilation through the terrarium, that way it isn't closed as such and minimises the growth of fungi
Any good care guide will recommend periods of high humidity with drops down to 50-60%. Glass terrariums do NOT hold humidity well. It's just a fact. It's why people go to lengths to alter them with glass inserts and HVAC tape to maintain better levels.
Where the spring, where the spring, where the springtails at?
Have that gecker in the cut, where the isopods at?
not true at all actually. high humidity is a good thing as long as the substrate doesn't stay wet all the time.
And not a paper towel in sight :)
Except on the paper towel trees. That's where paper towels come from :P
never used them lol
James Greig I have to use paper towels or else my gecko will try to eat his substrate I’ve seen him do it
@@uglyloner8983 I had a juvenile gecko eat his paper substrate, at least twice! Had to keep him on a bare plastic bottom until he moved into his fully bioactive tank (where the substrate is covered by leaves, plants, big pieces of cork bark, stones and so on).
exscape my gecko is a devil and will run if I try to clean his cage. His previous owners never held him so he is super skittish. He basically has a panic attack and runs all over if I get close to him. This has had Times of him ending up on the wall. Do you have any advice anyone. Please help. So now I keep him on bare bottom cage so it’s easier to clean but it’s still awful for both parties
He’s pretty well behaved for a wild one, no not you Dav! Lol
Glad you specified. I'm not very well behaved for a wild one :)
This was such an awesome video, thank you for sharing this info! I think my biggest concern with captive crested geckos is how many people think they don't eat live insects. It's a very important part of their diet.
I did notice how the wild crested gecko had a very lean and muscular body. Makes our pets look a little fat 😅
Agreed!
It actually makes me sad that the majority of pet owners and hobbyists have allowed themselves to be blindly influenced to have their pets solely rely on these commercial, processed foods. In this case, these mixes... have most people not even asked themselves how these Geckos get their dairy in the wild? That's what's in those mixes, together with heavily processed fruits that are not as bioactively organic as fresh food. They need live insects with non-denatured proteins, and fresh fruit with living nutrients, enzymes, etc. I give my Gecko a mix of different fruits and insects all year round with varying proportions and variety.
Agree. I tried feeding just cgd without good results. My geckos were growing very slowly and barely taking a few licks of their cgd. Came across an article that said to rotate. Night 1 cgd, Night 2 crickets and leave cgd. Night 3 remove cgd feed nothing. Night 4 start over at night 1. This did wonders for all of my crested and gargoyle geckos. Not only did they devour the crickets but they would clean their cgd bowls on Night 1. It increased their appetite, were more active and they started to grow much quicker.
That is true for some... my crested gecko will not touch a insect at all.
@@jacobaddesso5395 From my experience those that don't take them will eventually take them with enthusiasm if you continue to offer them.This isn't to say there isn't those that won't... I just haven't seen it. Most try a few times then give up. I had a gargoyle that took several months before he ate them. Now he is the one who goes the craziest at feeding time. He will attack water droplets thinking they are crickets
I will tell you right now, all of you, crested geckos can die super fast if they go too long without water. I beg you, do not learn the hard way, always have a water supply for them, with all my heart I’m very serious, if you do one thing make it that. God bless. Love your vids bro.
Good advice! Thanks!
I agree! Always supply a water bowl. Misting is not enough
That's how my crestie passed, a friend was pet sitting and forgot to refill her little bowl and thought the misting would be enough. It was a few years ago but man I loved that little gecko :'(
Alice Dayton I lost 2 of them from dehydration, worst ever. Ppl have no idea how fast it can happen, and how long it will haunt you if you love animals like we do.
jdssurf I agree 100% all of my cresties have a fresh supply of water each day
"somebody has to do this... **looks at the camera**"
*WE ALL KNOW WHAT THAT LOOK MEANS*
Great video! My 2 female crested geckos will be 19 and 20 years old this year. I wonder what the longest lived crested on record is! I keep them in a 22 gal Tall tank with an artificial tree, and a food/water bowl up high, next to an inner wall of the house that still gets enough indirect window light. Their substrate is organic topsoil with peat moss, cheap and easy items to get at a garden store. They've been raised on Repashy Crested gecko diet. I've tried other diets but this seems best all around. They get cricket and mealworm treats here and there, and overripe banana or peach sometimes. My temp/humidity devices broke long ago, but I have a feel for what works.
Wow! Those are long lived geckos! Nice!
Do they have their tails
@@ocavant how did you manage to have a mean crestie lol, were you like beating it or something? All people I've ever come in contact with a crestie never have an issue for more than the first month maybe.
Some of the geckos found in 1994 are still alive
@@khol3395 same, some are more jumpy but never mean
I'm convinced my gecko is deaf, he is almost 3 and still has his tail, my dog has barked at him because he was being loud in the middle of the night and he couldn't care less, I got him when I was 11 or 12 and I always had loud friends coming around and he was fine, he is seriously the best. Also thunder doesn't scare him at all. I got him from petsmart and so I wouldn't be surprised if he had some issues but I still love him!
It's the wild ones that are pretty much guaranteed to lose it. With a captive bred one they can sometimes be less skittish since they've never really needed to know fear like that and have no real concern for predators.
Cresties have always been my favorite gecko. These vids are epic. Thank you for taking us along. Stay safe.
Thank you Gena! Glad to have you along
I am so happy you went to the homeland of the cresties! This has been super insightful. What you were saying about the fruit ripening this time of year etc. makes me believe this is why my guy isnt as interested in his bugs this time of year. Make sense!
Glad you liked it!
This is all great info Dav and I'm SUPER jealous!!! This also goes to show how we've changed their appearance through selective breeding in such a SHORT time!!!! Whoa!
Makes me think of the wild dogs vs. our fat fuzzy pekinese and shih tzus here :)
TAILSPINZ GECKOS 😂
I watched this video about a year ago, I did a casual experiment with my crestie on his diet. So I got him in the summer he was obsessed with bugs and then by September-maybe February he only wanted Pangea. So I think he still has that internal clock
Now I'm going to find a wild crestie with its tail and get one million dollars!! Great video❤️
Yeah...about that. Well, wait until you see the next video :)
@@davkaufmansreptileadventures I love how you mouthed the “No, I won’t!” right after you said that!
Awesome video, this is great to know on the temp & humidity that I have been doing things correctly with my own Crested Geckos on the temp & humidity. Really great video Dav. Thank you for taking the time to go there.
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this great video! I have been doing so much research before purchasing a created gecko and by far this is the most educational video! I received more info in only 11 min than the hrs I’ve watched in other videos!!
Thanks! Glad it helped! Please feel free to share!
I keep my crestie in a 24x18x36,
he loves it in there and if I’m awake I see him jump from 1 side to the other
Big tank I got a 3 month old one that is 2 inches long and I got him a 12x12x18 cuz he so small
60x40x40 mine, for two cresties.
Why is this wild crested gecko more tame than my own XD what am i doing wrong
Sad that there was no talk about plants
Here's my two cents on the matter. When we compare wild animals with captive animals of the same species, we will notice a sharp difference in life spans and quality of life. Wild animals live shorter lives with high amounts of stress and the circumstances of which the animal has no choice of being comfortable. Let's take the crested gecko, adult wild crested geckos lose their tails because they are/were in a high stress/fear situations. We know this because we have captive cresties that have been in both stress filled and non stress filled situations and we noticed that those that lived a life with low stress will keep their tails. Now let's look at the weather of any habitable place. You'll notice that humans naturally prefer a certain temperature range that makes them "comfortable", "tolerable" and "uncomfortable". Being acclimatized to an area can change those temperatures under those categories but not by much. You'll notice for example that someone that has lived their whole life in Ecuador would find the summers of Canada to be "chilly" and will dress warmer than the rest of the population. Now just because this person finds Canada to be chilly, doesn't mean that they are "comfortable" with the temperatures of Ecuador either. Ecuador is a very hot and humid place and heat stroke is a very real danger. So just because they experience 104° as a norm, it doesn't mean that they expose themselves to those temperatures. You'll find them inside with a fan or AC on blast while drinking lots of fluids not only for safety reasons but because they are also feeling "uncomfortable" with the temperatures. So although they are surviving those temperatures, the weather isn't ideal. This applies to all animals. Zoologists have noticed that captive animals thrive in certain temperatures in comparison to their wild kin. Take polar bears for example, in the wild polar bears struggle to live because the temperatures aren't cold enough for them during the summer season while their captive kin who experience controlled temperatures thrive year round. That's why you can find emaciated bears in the summer but have perfectly healthy bears in winter in the wild. Granted that in part its due to climate change but New Caledonia isn't the exception to climate change either if we went with that rebuttal. For all we know, that 80° 80% combo is actually unbearable for the geckos and is a result of climate change.
In the end, if we're going to look at wild habitats for ways to better care for an animal we should do so with a grain of salt. Wild animals are surviving, captive animals thrive. Its why 84% of captive animals have significantly longer lifespans with more playful and relaxed behaviors than their wild of kin. Zoologists do their best to find the appropriate living conditions of captive animals and hence why we have such a high number of longer living captive animals. Now not every captive animal lives longer (elephants live significantly shorter lives in captivity than they do in the wild), but it is believed that these animals live shorter lives because the conditions of captivity aren't geared to making the animal more comfortable and its more geared to human accessibility and comfort around the animal (so that people can see elephants in an all too small enclosure, get the elephant to do tricks for people while being chackled the rest of the time or forced to do manual labor for humans for many years).
Dude, nice segway to your trip. Love it. Should have been, "Hi. I'd like a one-way ticket to New Caledonia, please." Great vid Dav.
Well, Noumea, the capital city rolls up the sidewalks at 6pm so I think I'd be very bored there if it was only way.
Excellent video Dāv!
Thank you!
My temps in my bedroom/gecko room is usually around 75-78 even 80 sometimes I noticed when my temps were 70-72 they weren't eating as much, they weren't growing as fast and as soon as I bumped those temps there was more activity, they eat every night, and they're growing nearly three times as fast!
75-78 during the day?
I’ve had my male crestie for over a year & he still has his tail . He used to love crickets but now just cgd . Pangea with insects .
Awesome! I really enjoyed the new format and after this one episode you’re definitely one of my favourite reptile channels!
It’s amazing how much captive breeding has changed the appearance of crested geckos. In the hobby, a bald, buckskin, tailless, long-snouted crested gecko is probably the last crested gecko a breeder would look for... but that’s exactly what nature has selected.
Thank you! Glad you like the channel! I was thinking the same thing when I was out there.
Such an important video. Thank you
So you take temp and humidity readings 1 time in a year and extrapolate what we should do all year long with our geckos...? I mean great commitment but let's get some year round readings, right?
In the 21st century, we can have hygrometry and temps in real time from anywhere on earth. Just google it.
I have not been keeping these long, but it took only a couple weeks for me to start questioning the advice we are getting from crested gecko breeders and crested gecko Facebook groups. I have noticed that my females who are kept around 79-81 have a larger appetite than my male who is kept slightly cooler. It would be one thing if it was only 1 of my females that acted differently, but it’s both. This suggest to me that the general advice shared about these geckos is wrong, or, outdated.
I was told that they don’t need UVB but you can use a low percentage. So I got a Arcadia shade dweller 5%. I was told that this is dangerous. So I got a Arcadia 2.4%. I placed it inside because I don’t have mesh in this case (temp set up until I get their concerted display case done). I was told this this is dangerous and hurts their eyes and will burn their skin.
But that doesn’t make sense either. The 2.4% is very low. If you put it on mesh, even if it’s right on top, you will reduce the percentage of UVB they get. Studies show that UVB is good for life, in general. I rather have a UVB light inside than no UVB at all. I have found that my geckos like to lay under the light. If the light was harmful, hence causes pain, a healthy gecko will move. Even though mine have a ton of spots to hide, they still at times prefer being closer to the light. Once they have had enough, they simply move.
I’m equally noticing that they are likely bigger bug eaters than people think. We may be giving them less bugs than they would normally eat in the wild. Mine right now are big crazy and less interested in their CGD. I’ve been advised to starve them until they eat the CGD. But I refuse to do that. I can gut load the crickets. I prefer for them to eat than starve as I feel that is abusive. Its October, which means that it’s spring where they are from. Given this fruit thing, that would mean that this is still bug season. Which is so far proving to be accurate with how many bugs they want.
At this rate with the old data that breeders especially spread around, I don’t even know how y’all can turn this around so these guys are kept right.
Also, never bought into the “baby crested geckos are scared so they need a shoebox sized tub to live in” or “they need paper towels and a small enclosure so you can watch them”….why? I can simply take them out and weight them weekly to monitor if they are eating. I can also see lick marks in their food. They are so big crazy right now they’ll come out with the lights on and start chasing them around, I can watch that. I can find poop on leaves. Another one is “they can get impacted by keeping them on anything but paper towels”. Umm, I ensure you, they aren’t putting down paper towels to eat in the wild lol.
Hello, wonderful response! I do want to add and respond to your comment on the UVB. The feeling of UVB is felt as warmth since it is simply radiation. As such, a gecko (or any lizard) may not notice until they receive burns. Its the reason we get sunburns and not notice until its too late. Its becoming more and more common in the veterinary field to see reptiles come in with burns from excessive UVB, and current literature suggests that vitamin D metabolism benefits amazingly well from 30 mins of exposure.
I cannot wait for the day I get to go to New Caledonia.
This is vital information, it kinda explains why my Crestie eats less powder food and goes nuts for insects a few times a year.
Glad it helped!
Do a leopard gecko video
Well done, dude! Awesome❤
All of our crested geckos still have their tails! And we have six! Going on four years now. With dogs and a loud family. We keep them in the common area and three we raised from hatchlings. I love it! They are so sweet.
My geckos tail feel off because of the clown! LOL
Lol!
I was wondering about your readings. Did you take several? Were the numbers you showed a consistent, or an average, or just the two? Were they generally found at the expected height? Love the seasonal diet thought. I hope there's more to the
subject.
I did take several around the main island, and at all the smaller islands. They were all relatively consistent.
Just got back into the hobby after a 10 year break. It is so much different now. Their is so much more information available and products you can get to are fantastic. If I would have been like this when I got out of it I Might not have done so.
It's a whole different world now. Welcome back!
Amazing video dude!
I’m late on this but this was really interesting! Totally agree with the room temp thing. That’s totally relative to where you live, cause I’m telling you now, room temp in the south west UK even in the height of summer ain’t even close to 26C 🤣 My little dude is in a bioactive 45x45x60(cm) and during the night it’s so cool to hear him jumping about his enclosure, one minute amongst the plants on what would be the forest floor to climbing up high into his coconut house above the canopy. Anyone that says these guys need little space because they ‘get scared’ is lying to themselves. Especially in captivity, sure they might not understand in the way we do, but they’re not stupid, they quickly realise that they are the king of their castle, he’s the apex predator in his kingdom and to be honest, I’d like to go taller the minute I have the space myself! Believe me they use their space to it’s max at night. I very rarely get him out to be honest, just looking after the little dude is enjoyment enough ✌🏼 When me and my wife buy our first place, I’m gonna have to hold back on setting up another enclosure, cause I can see how this hobby can quickly run away from you! Cheers my man!
@@mrsb1212 Hello from Devon! 👏🏼😂
Love your channel, keep up the GREAT work!
Thank you! I really do appreciate that!
I’ve always loved these videos, they help us to understand what these creatures really are 🥲
Awesome video Dav, I really liked how you continue to question how we keep animals and if it is actually the best for them
Thanks! There'll be many more like this from all over the world.
Great job. Very entertaining yet educational. 👍👍
Thank you!
I've been saving for a New Caledonia trip for years! So glad to see a fellow herper made it!
While you're there, see if you can find any chameleon geckos!
Save a lot! It's the most expensive country I've ever been to. Those are found on the main island and we didn't spend a lot of time there.
Spagnum moss on the floor of the vivarium is amazing at keep humidity up :)
Good tip! Thanks!
I got tip for you 🥁 bioactive setups!!!!
Yeee also be sure to spray both sides of the moss for maximum moisture. It gets the ground wet as well this way.
I hope you stopped with that rewind sound, that was audio assault. Would be curious to see if anyone has studied room temperature versus 80° enclosure kept crested geckos lifespans, I've had one loose in the house for 6 months at a time who I just found under a leaking toilet downstairs last week and he was as chunky as his girlfriend is who was fed continuously and I keep them at room temperature, they do like pill bugs, was thinking of trying earthworms with as much snot washed off as possible, another Channel mentioned the possibility of snails as the Satan leaf tail gecko has them in their diet. I have Ram's Horn snails in excess from my aquariums and we'll see what happens
My tank has a temperature gradient of 90 degrees F to 70 degrees F so my little ones can thermal regulate to their hearts content ☺️ I use a 25W halogen bulb to do this and he seems to enjoy it. I leave it on for 12 hours and then turn it off for 12 hours. He’s a very active gecko so I think it works for him. I also keep my humidity at about 70-80% and I can achieve this just with misting the tank really well 3-4 times a day. But I also live where the relative humidity in my room is 50-60% so his humidity really wouldn’t get that low 😂
Great advice Dani!
Thank you ☺️ I also have a pretty decent layer of eco earth as substrate with various mods throughout the enclosure to help hold the humidity which has helped a lot
Do you think they can thermaregualte ? Sometimes I catch mines under his heat lamp where it's 85, i try to keep it 68-82
I’ve got my baby crested 4 and half grams in a 12x12x24 iches Exo tall with eco soil topped with a layer of dried leaves and all the Usual decorations with cork bark and leaves . ( Previously I kept it in a small tank ] misting morning & have it night 24 C during the day and 21 C at night . With a 10 hour shadedweller UVB light . It’s doing much better and finding it’s food easy enough 😊
*Dav talking to an invinsible person*
"Excuse me, do you know where the Crested geckos are?"
Everybody else: "Is he okay....?"
😂😂😂
Thank you so much for stating the truth that room temperature is not adequate for these beautiful gecko's....shame on all pet shops for telling customers that this animal doesn't need heating equipment and just mist them and they will be fine.😠😠😠😠... thank you.
I have a bioactive tank with 4-5 inches of soil and moss for my crestie. I know right on the soil, the humidity is in the 90s, so I'm fine withe the air humidity dropping to the 60s. It's usually between 75-80 humidity. The only light/heat I have on the tank is an arcadia shadedweller, which gets a hotspot of 80 degrees. She seems happy.
Am I’m the only one who’s checked their gecko’s humidity at 10:13
Can we take a moment to appreciate that this man scripted his transitions
I want a wild crested gecko... I mean that would be a terrible idea but it would be unique. Nah I’ll just get one off Craigslist 😂
I would love to head to New Caledonia, lots of cool plants, birds, and of course lizards.
I wonder how the climate there changes throughout the year? I love that you're out there looking for ways to improve our care of these amazing animals. Great vid! I'm looking forward to what you share next.
It doesn't change much actually. And thanks! Leachie episodes coming next week!
Gargoyles too I hope? :D
I'd say it changes a lot. www.holiday-weather.com/noumea/averages/
It actually changes quite a bit from highs of 84° during the summer and night lows of 61° and day highs of 71° during the winter. At night during the summer it gets down to the low 70s, so keeping them over 80° at all times is too warm. It's also, less humid during the dry season around 60% when it isn't raining.
@@davidhopman7227 on isle of pines there's actually a bigger difference than in Noumea. It gets a bit warmer in the summer, and a bit colder in the winter
Very informative, i've always been a believer that the current trend of 60 - 75f thats gets thrown around as "room" temp is on the cool side for them, i've provided basking spots of 80f with a gradient to the bottom for a good few years now and they use every inch of the temp gradient.
Thanks for the advice. I always thought "room temp" wasn't enough for them.
Hey Dav. It was such a pleasure meeting you yesterday. When you told me you were doing a show about crested geckos and new caledonia, I thought to myself that you had already done one, but I didn't know if I was wrong. However, I had to check today... 😂 here we are!
Hoping to get most of ours onto a bio setup once money's sorted out, can't wait tbh.
Struggling to find plants to use though 🤔 especially native to where the animals are from.
I use birds nest fern which are native to tropics all around the world, including new caledonia :)
my tale flew off when you play that pennywise video LOL littarally chucked my headphones anywasy great videos!!
My geckos tank stays between ~74-82 and spikes at 85-90% 15 minutes or so after his misters go of for 16 seconds then after the four hours it has normally gone down to ~60-65% plus the several bowls of water and other thing help keep humidity around there so I think my set up is pretty darn good
Would this apply to gargoyle too? If so how would you recommend achieving this.
Omg I guess it’s New Caledonia in my house LOL... it’s usually 80 at about 70% humidity. I live near the ocean about 6hrs from FL 🤣. I did have a Crestie that lived about 10 years and simply up its humidity.
80% is ok but not long term it can cause mold and other bacteria to grow I would say 60-70% is better long term and 80 degrees should be the max , anything over that for a crested gecko in a tank is too hot, 70-78 is perfect for cresties. So turn their lights off if it gets over ! I’m in California and the heat wave caused it to get to 85 almost so I turned the lights off and it’s down to 70-75 again
I have noticed there is literally nothing out there on wild gargoyles
Excellent vid - was 100% going to show my 6 year old who's just getting into reptiles with his first Crestie this....
Until you spliced in the clown from IT!
Please upload a clean version, it's such a good educational piece and a shame I can't show it to my kids.
This was so interesting!
Just a note, a temperature of 81 on ONE DAY in the autumn doesn't really describe a year round climate or temperature.
Thanks so much for this video! I am setting most of my reptiles up as natural and bioactive as I can and the information I can get from your visit to New Caledonia is priceless. I will be looking forward to seeing what else you experienced.
That's awesome Lorie! Glad it can help!
I know natural habitat is essential for healthy wild caught animals in captivity but, after generations of captive breeding, could it be that those offspring im captiviry have adapted to the suggested captive environment to the point that a New Caledonia specific habitat could caause them some stress if changed suddenly from breed standard captove habitats.
I mean, it has been shown that invasive species Iguanas in Florida have adapted to tolerate temperatures almost 10°F lower than their natural habitat counterparts elsewhere in the world during outdoor winter time Florida cold snaps before their demise.
The natural habitat norms of lizards while in captivity is important to preserve in the first place though so, perhaps people should start incorperating the name of an animals geographic origin when they say their name to help aid potential owners. i.e.- New Caledonian Arboreal Crested Forest Gecko.
This would also not only help in researching a pets habitat/climate needs but theor niche in it and possible natural food sources as well. People hearing it would know to, for example, look for the climate conditions along with flora and fauna of New Calidonian forests to keep their crested Gecko happy and healthy.
Maybe info like that could be burnt into people's minds from the minute they hear a species' name spoken by a responsible breeder.
Maybe everyone should be saying that when introducing their pets.... New Caledonian Arboreal Crested Forest Gecko sounds cooler anyways.
Hello. Total noob here. I just have my first tank and bioactive set up in the mail.
I have question to ask?
What is you opinion on using lichens and mosses in vivaria (? Sorry not my first language)?
And if you use them. What types are Best to use in crested geckos vivaria?
The room temp and misting thing was probably all for marketing and sales purposes. But I also think it's conservative to have people think that room temp is correct, especially since it urges people to bring the temperature down in the summer when it can go beyond 80deg f which would be lethal for the gecko.
Looking at wild crested geckos makes me realize how overweight breeder’s crested geckos can be
Ask suga free what’s pomona I guruantee you, YOU will not come back the same playah
Maybe once their population rebounds, a small import of some wild geckos can be sent to the US so breeders can use them to outcross the breeding population of captive geckos.
I know this is a 2 year old video but maybe I'll get lucky and someone will see this and answer my question.
From an evolutionary view, what is the point or purpose of having a tail that drops so easily AND doesn't grow back? Does the tail just serve no purpose?
I wouldn’t be surprised if they eat the nectar and pollen from flowers, as I’ve seen photos of eurydactylodes feeding from flowers In The wild
In Sweden they are actually called eyelash gackos (ögonfransgecko)
About had a heart attack!
Awww cute geckos 🦎 ….BOOM clown 🤡 😱
Where do you get the information crested geckos lose their tails due to dogs barking etc? Isn't it much more likely a) escaping predators b) fighting when mating just like in captivity? Also there was a baby crested gecko with its tail in the exo terra documentary which would suggest to me also it's not their stupid reactions that make them drop the tail.. honestly I might just have been very lucky with my geckos and the other one's I've seen and handled but I don't get where this idea comes from that crested geckos just drop their tails out of nowhere, I suspect a lot of people handle them carelessly and then pretend like it "just happened".
where i live, 81º F ( 27,3º C ) is the room temperature in common days ( summer can be up to 30º-37º C ).
What about plants for a vivarium? I've been trying to get info on what types of plants are on the isle of pines and i cant even find pictures in google. Looks like possible ferns? Palms? Banana?
Look at the crests. They're NOT pronounced at all, so all the people making a big deal about crest structure are full of crap.
Is there someone with a knack for botany here that would be able to identify some of the plants shown? Specifically the one at 5:46 for example?
I'd really appreciate that.
I'm setting up a bioactive tank and if I can get the exact same plants they have in their natural habitat, I will try to accommodate that (unless it's a friggin tree of course)
My crested would NOT grow until I got her a heat lamp.
I want to be some one like you or brave wilderness when I’m older. Retptes and arachnids fascinate me and I are ant to be and explorer like you or an ecologist. I also have my own crested gecko and that’s why I love this video
Ambient temperature and humidity is not an accurate reading of what is comfortable for them most often I can guarantee it's not that temperature or humidity where the bulk of them will be throughout the day being twilight animals.
I was under the understanding that crested gecko stopped eating insects once they are full grown? I only offer pangea fruit diet and stopped offering crickets and dubias a year ago? Am I in the twilight zone or have I been doing it all wrong
awesome video
Thank you!
If just misting the cages isn't enough then what do you suggest that we could do that would be better to keep humidity levels higher?
If some one knows other lizards that are from the island of pine that will not hunt my cresteds plz comment love building habits like there wild home
My boy has always refused insects. I've had him 2 years.
When you were here observing these wild animals did you see any wild colonies?
I own two Crested Gecko's;
A male Dalmation and a baby Harliquin 💜🦎
Love Pangeas food mix and their magnetic food and water dishes
Awesome!
Thanks for the 💜 and replying
Great Video Mate . Thanks for Sharing 🎉
why do people have blasting so called Music over the vlogs real annoying
Bro that pennywise clip freaked me out lol