| The Gecko is located in many warm climates | | | | A happy gecko is a long lived one. As soon as the |
| throughout the world. | | | | decision to raise a gecko has been made, getting |
| Gecko's can be located in a wide variety of warm | | | | essential suggestions about how to contain and |
| areas, they are wide spread, pose no menace to | | | | care for it is essential to make sure it is a healthy |
| people and are quite able to adapt. | | | | time for the gecko and its guardian. |
| They do not mind the presence of people and will | | | | As soon as you have brought home your gecko, |
| live peacefully with them. | | | | constructed its housing, set up its nutritional needs, |
| There are around 750 species of these fine lizards , | | | | and let it settle in, it is time to get to know each |
| that are fragmented into 4 sub categories, | | | | other. So in general, be sure not to handle your |
| Eublepharinae, Sphaerodactylinae, Diplodactylinae and | | | | geckos on a regular basis until they settle in for a |
| lastly Gekkoninae. | | | | few days and are at least 6 inches long. |
| Leopard Gecko Food | | | | One terminative note about gecko handling basics. |
| Leopard Geckos can be kept easily as pets and | | | | When your gecko is big enough, it is best to take a |
| make a nice attachment to a lizard group. The best | | | | seat on the floor, and allow your gecko to crawl |
| choice for you is a captively bread example. | | | | around through loose fingers hand-over-hand for 10 |
| The price ranges from $20 to as high as $3000. Sizes | | | | to 15 minutes each day until acclimated to the touch. |
| range from 3-4 inches for new babies and up to 12 | | | | |
| inches for some of the really large ones. The typical | | | | This procedure takes somewhere around seven |
| size of most adult geckos is 8 inches. | | | | days. Do not, ever hold the gecko's tail, or it might |
| The life of a gecko can be as lengthy as 20 years or | | | | be dropped, though quite often it can grow back in |
| even more in captivity. The nature of care is | | | | under two months. |
| deterministic of these lasting life spans. | | | | |