[PreditorNprey]

For once I found the search button and tried to search for information, as well as pictures of these geckos, but only found a few pictures and no information.

Does anyone know how expensive these are?
What they look like?
How big they get?
How common are they?

I do have a chance to add these to my collection, and have never heard of them before, and at the price I am able to get these at, I do not see to much of a problem with adding a few to my collection, and possibly breeding them IF they seem like a species I am interested in.

[Justin]

Hemidactylus brookes.. do you mean Hemidactylus brookii? If so then I kept these a while ago. They are a very easy gecko to keep, small (around 10cm mark), fast and quite skittish but great feeders and intersting to watch. Similar to house geckos in many ways.

[PreditorNprey]

yeah brookii!

[danscantle]

If it's from Africa it is probably H. angulatus or H. tanganicus (the latter not very likely). If it's from Asia you have true H. brookii. If it's from the Caribbean you have H. haitianus. They are African house geckos. They are about as big as Justin said, and display varying degrees of terrestriality.

I kept a lone female H. angulatus a number of years ago. I maintained in in a 5 gallon tub, with sand substrate, PVC tube hide, shallow water dish. 80-85F daytime temps. She laid 3 clutches for me which were fertile. The young hatched in about 45-50days at 82F.

They are very easy to keep and breed. They can also be rather colorful - my female was nearly orange with black mottling.

I can send you pictures of all three species in the coming days. But, they are all preserved museum specimens.