[Paul-Dominic]

Ok, so Ive had my Tokay for..hmmm a year I'd say? Anyways I bought her (I'm pretty sure as far as I can tell) In a pet store, 19.99$, Shes mean and vicious and in my mind no doubt WC. She looks like the "typical" tokay. She is ocassionally almost completely light blue, but most of the time her dark green bands seem darker. Her tail isnt thick at all, her body is ok. She may be underweight, but im wondering what is the ideal weight of a healthy tokay? How should it look? Most tokays I see have thinner tails... But then I see some with very thick bodys and tails similar to leos, with very fat tail bases. I feed my tokay about 25 crickets a week, some super worms between, is this not enough? Ive tried pinkies but she just attacks them. And I dont like feeding live mice, so Ive only tried F/T. Heres a few pics of her:







But again ive seen the Tokays, they have fatter tails simmilar to leos, They look alot healthier--and fatter, but are they actually supposed to be this size and thick? Is this overweight though? Or are usual tokays(including mine) underweight? And to get a tokay big and chunky, how much do you have to feed these angry dudes and what do you have to feed them? Either way the fatter tokays look alot more desirable to me. Anyone on here have any heavy tokays?

[cliff_f]

She looks prefectly fine to me. Usually the ones you see with the big fat tails are males. I dont see anything wrong with yours, she looks gorgeous.

Here is a picture of one of my males. He tails is pretty big at the base but my females tails usually stay alot smaller. I have noticed with my wc tokays the tails tend to be alittle smaller but nothing to worry about as long as she is eating and isnt loosing alot of weight.

[Paul-Dominic]

Woa Cliff, that is one amazing looking tokay! What do you feed yours, and how much per week? Also if the tokay is brighter and more blue does that mean they are healthier? It seems that all the big looking healthy guys are blue.

[cliff_f]

I feed mine crickets, I feed him about 4-5 large crickets every other day. The brighter blue is just more of a local thing.

[Paul-Dominic]

Cliff would you mind sharing with me some more photos of your tokys and possibly some enclosure pics? And mind telling me how often you mist and your exact temps? You seem to really know your tokays well (hard to find people that know alot about tokays on gecko forums), and your big guy looks pretty happy.

[cliff_f]

I mist every night. I keep the basking spot around 92F and the rest of the cages is around 80-84F, here are a few other photos.

[Paul-Dominic]

Awesome pics cliff, hopefully my tokay will put on some weight soon and look like your beauties!

[Ingo]

Tokays gain a lot of weight when they ge tolder. Other than for many lizards, this is not harmful to them, in contrast, the fattest Tokays are among the most prolific and agile ones.
Here´s a Pic of a 8 year old male with a reg. tail., which as of today is my bulkiest tokay



But not all tokays do get that bulky with age. I have a >15 year old male, which is muss less bulky and still a healthy specimen.
So every size can be considered normal, as long as the animal is healthy and agile.