Gecko - is a small (usually of medium size) lizard that lives in arid and semi-arid regions of Australia and Africa.In addition, it can be found in the forests of Madagascar and South Asia.Gecko - the lizard, which part of the plant as a pet because they completely unpretentious to the conditions of detention.
External differences
body length of reptiles of this species is 4 to 30 cm. They had big, bulging eyes without eyelids.They are covered with a transparent film and have vertical pupils.Characteristically, in the dark, they are expanding.Not everyone knows that geckos are endowed with a very delicate skin that can be easily hurt, despite the fact that it covers a small granular scales.
main feature of geckos - fingers extended and covered with horny plates underneath.This allows the lizard to move easily and stay on a vertical surface.
gecko - lizard with thin and brittle tail, which, however, can regenerate.Most members of this family are active at night.
characteristic feature of geckos - publish a wide variety of sounds.They can hiss, squeak, whistle.Especially loudly they shout in the mating season.
Geckos: content
In captivity contain these cute lizards quite simple.The main thing - to provide them with good conditions and proper care.
for geckos need a small vertical terrarium.Under natural conditions, these reptiles prefer to live in small colonies, it is better to keep the house in pairs.
males geckos quite aggressive - they jealously guard their territory.This is particularly noticeable in the mating season.The males are fighting to the death.At best, they can hurt each other.Females can be kept from one to three.
Construction terrarium
Paul should fall asleep with peat or coconut, you can use medium-sized gravel.This coating must be constantly moistened.The sand for this purpose does not approach, since it with food can enter the body and cause a variety of lizards disease.
afternoon temperatures in the terrarium should not fall below 28 degrees and the night - not less than 8 degrees.Since there are day gecko species, it is desirable for them to ultraviolet light.
The terrarium should be drinking bowl, a few dry, but not sharp sticks, shards of ceramic pots, pieces of bark.All of this will serve as a shelter for the gecko.
can put in a terrarium small pots with decorative plants (philodendron, dwarf creeping ficus, arrowroot, and so on. D.) To maintain the necessary microclimate.
Lizard feels safe when in the cage a lot of scenery.It is necessary that the humidity was maintained therein.To do this twice a day terrarium should be sprayed with warm boiled water, and the soil is not waterlogged.Take care of the establishment of effective ventilation.
Gecko: Care and Feeding
If you want your players to feel comfortable, you must comply with certain conditions of their detention.Gecko - a lizard, which has powerful jaws that are sometimes not so easy to let go, and sharp teeth.When she is aggressive, reptile swells, hisses, with wide open mouth.After these maneuvers frightening it makes a sharp attack by attacking the enemy.Therefore, at the first meeting do not try to take it in hand.Do not try to grab its tail - it can easily break.
terrarium should be regularly cleaned and disinfected.If you want to take a gecko in your skin, wash them.Do the same thing after the end of your communication.Gecko can be a carrier of salmonella.
interesting pattern - the more the size of the gecko, the less often it needs to be fed.For example, a reptile 20 cm should be fed twice weekly.Gecko - a lizard that prefers live food: crickets, spiders, flies, cockroaches and other insects.Geckos large sizes needed small mouse, quail eggs.Some reptile species that gladly regale sweet fruit - oranges and bananas.
currents
This lizard is quite large sizes.Tokay gecko (adults), reaches 35 cm in length.Males are more brightly colored than females.Behind them can be olive, gray or dark green in color, with white patches that are on the back pass in the strip.Eyes are large with vertical pupils.The body is dense, slightly flattened.The head is very big, powerful, but short legs.The tail is not too long.
tokay gecko is common in the tropical forests of southeast Asia.This reptile produces a false impression being clumsy.In fact, it is very mobile, especially at dusk.Currents aggressive to their fellows.On its territory aliens are not allowed.On their right, they say a loud cry.
plate-tailed geckos
these reptiles terrarium love for bright and beautiful color.But because their circadian rhythms, this reptile is not valued as a pet.
This species lives in the desert and torrid regions of Iran, Central Asia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan.This terrestrial lizard that dig holes in the sand more than a meter deep.They are active at night.
Appearance skink
plate-tailed geckos can not be called a big lizard.She has wide and high head with big bulging eyes.The body length of 20 cm. The trunk is short and somewhat clumsy.It is covered almost identical scales.They seem to overlap.At the head of the scales are much smaller and have the shape of polygons.
Color of various reptiles - yellow or greenish gray tint, rusty-red on top and purplish-red at the bottom and sides, and so on. D. On the back there is usually a few dark stripes or streaks.In addition, there are dark stripes on the sides and reptiles.
plate-tailed geckos have a short and fragile tail.In the event of an attack of a predator reptile it easily drops.The main distinguishing feature of these lizards - big, glowing in the dark ruby color eyes.
leopard gecko
Sometimes these reptiles called spotty eublepharis.It has long been well known for many living lizard terrarium.
Under natural conditions, it can be found in hot, dry areas of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, northern India.Public sands leopard gecko escapes.In the heat of the day hiding in burrows, rock crevices.It feeds mainly on insects, in rare cases, small vertebrates, which can handle.
Home leopard gecko is unpretentious.Due to this, probably, he became very popular among lovers of reptiles.Most often they are kept in small groups of 6 animals (2 males and 4 females).The males are very aggressive towards his opponents, can seriously injure each other.
for 5-6 reptile terrarium needs a floor area of at least 0.25 m2.The substrate may serve as coarse sand, gravel, you can use sawdust.The terrarium should certainly be hiding - fragments of pottery, scraps of plastic pipes.Their number must match the number of animals.Always in the cage should be a bowl of water - eublepharis often drink her lapping tongue.
In the daytime, it is necessary to maintain the temperature - 27-30 degrees, lowering it to 20 pm to 23 degrees.
Feeding eublepharis
for these lizards are the best food cockroaches, crickets, nude mice.In summer you can be added to food butterflies, caterpillars, larvae of the May beetle.Mice should not get too carried away, because such foods can disrupt liver lizard.
anchorwhip gecko
This tiny lizard, the total length of the body which is barely 8 cm, with a tail accounts for most of the length.Females are even smaller.
neck and head male painted poisonous yellow with black or dark brown stripes.The rest of the body with a bluish gray and spotted.Young lizards do not have such a bright color - they spotted a brown body, pale yellow head.In both sexes the abdomen yellow.This species is widespread in Africa.
anchorwhip home gecko - a lizard which is awake during the day.Most of her life she holds in the trees.It is found in the forests, on the coasts, in the savannas.Do not avoid intimacy with a man.It may settle on the walls or walls of buildings.It feeds on the smallest insects.
ciliated gecko
these lizards are called bananoedami their addiction to various fruits, including bananas to.A ciliary because it has characteristic spikes which surround the eyes on.This tree lizard.The length of adult reaches 22 cm.
Bananoed triangular framed spiked head.Spikes and go on back to the blades.The eyelids are absent.The eyes are covered with a membrane.The whole body is covered with small soft gecko scales, feels like suede.The feet are short and stocky, have small claws.
Color is very bright and quite varied - orange, yellow, brown, red, gray, and so on. D. With proper care, these lizards live 15-18 years.
«Foton-M»
This Russian biosatellite into orbit were launched five geckos - 1 female and 4 male flies, Drosophila, fungi, seeds of higher plants, silkworm eggs.The purpose of the experiment in relation to lizards - the study of the effect of microgravity on the sexual behavior of animals, embryonic development and obtaining progeny of geckos average.The flight was designed for 60 days.
Unfortunately, all geckos were lost in space.Presumably they were frozen as a result of the failure of the heating system of the satellite.
the remains, scientists can not determine exactly what the cause of death of the reptile.But they argue that the geckos in space died quite early - about a week before planting.Their bodies were partly mummified.Many researchers believe that hypothermia - is just one of the possible versions.
Where to buy gecko
In its assortment of reptiles has every shop sells the animals.Gecko - Lizard popular, so their choice is quite diverse.In Moscow, we recommend that you contact the terrarium workshop "Gekko."This is a specialized pet shop, dealing exclusively with terrarium animals.In addition, you can pick up all the necessary equipment and accessories for keeping reptiles.This terrariums in different sizes from various manufacturers, and lamps, and heaters, heat tracing and floor mats.It also offers a variety of types of soil, pick up the plants, watering and waterfalls, pick up dry and live foods.In the Russian capital can apply for lizards in the nursery "Happy Farm gecko" in St. Petersburg - in the cabin, "Living Water," or store "Nature."There you can buy all you need for these pets.
