Lost Gecko

CarpetShark · #1 07-27-2008, 02:00 AM

I have a pair of frog-eyed geckos that escaped tonight. Luckily, someone found one of them (while I away at dinner). y female, however, is still at large. We checked everywhere we could think to look, but we couldn't find her. Does anyone know any good methods for catching these guys? My husband is still looking for her, but we think she might have fallen asleep somewhere as the timer had turned off the lights before we got home.

If anyone could helps us, we'd really appreciate it.

cliff_f · #2 07-27-2008, 02:15 AM

Usually when a geckos gets loose I just wait till night and go back in my reptile room and look for them when they are active. Sometimes it takes a few days and I have caught geckos within a few hours of the lights going out.

sarahjane85 · #3 07-28-2008, 03:49 PM

I've tried both... searching to no avail. and waiting. Waiting proved best for me as I have a lot of JUNK.. boxes, stacks of papers, etc... so I packed a towel in front of the closet door and in front of the gecko room as I entered and left. After about a week, I saw the towel moving while watching tv and my T.s.s suddenly appeared after digging around the towel. I have a C. turneri that escaped out of the incubator, 2/08, and has been snatching up crickets when I feed at night. Don't let them fool you, they can get around. Small house geckos that occassionally sneak into the house stick to the gecko room at night but move around early morning to several other rooms.

Hopefully you've already found her..
Sarah.

CarpetShark · #4 07-29-2008, 01:45 AM

Thank you Sarah, but I haven't found her yet. I'm praying my sister-in-law's cats don't get to her first. I've been searching for her, and I'm going to be moving stuff around tomorrow in order to search better for her.

CarpetShark · #5 08-08-2008, 03:03 AM

I still haven't found her... I'm so depressed about it. And to top it off, we're moving! I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't find her before we leave.

sarahjane85 · #6 08-08-2008, 01:34 PM

As long as the cats haven't found her, she's probably found a nice warm spot and is sticking to it. They are hardy little buggers. If anything, packing should actually prove helpful since you'll be eliminating spots for her to hide.

jabberwock486 · #7 08-08-2008, 02:28 PM

i had a leopard gecko get loose in the house once. it lived in that house for over a year before it was found, alive. although very skinny. it went on to live and was given to a good friend a few years ago. still has it.