[j_izzle8930]

Hopefully I wont get too many differing opinions on this:

I have been speaking with an importer that I deal with pretty often and a couple weeks ago he had halmahera giant geckos on his availability. After looking around on the forums and what other little information I could find I came to the conclusion that Vorax are extremely rare, and on a couple forums saw that there is only one captive pair in the U.S. When I called the importer to talk to him figuring he had brought in marginatas he told me they were infact true Vorax geckos from Fiji.

I should have the geckos next week and im not sure what to think. Are Marginatas also from Fiji and the importer is wrong or misinformed from his guys about what he is getting. When the importer told me he was getting Vorax I told him I thought they were extremely rare and never came into the U.S. and he told me that they were coming in once or twice a year now. Have export laws changed lately (any information I can find is realitively old) and true Vorax geckos are finally becoming availabe? When I get the lizards what are some charecteristics I can distinguish species by? Caresheets anyone? All I can find is the basics. Finally, if they are true Vorax what are they worth?

Any help would reallly be appreciated.

[mh728]

I hope you plan on posting pics when you get them!

[Luperosaurus]

G.vorax have brown eye
http://www.ryanphotographic.com/imag...us%20gecko.jpg
G.marginata have green eye
http://www.gekkota.com/assets/images...marginata2.jpg

That's first visual differences

Gehyra membranacruralis included in the same complex, but I can't find any picture of them.

[j_izzle8930]

I've also read you cant tell by eyecolor, is that a definite?

[Ingo]

At least there are non vorax, marginata looking animals with golden or brownish eyes.

[j_izzle8930]

I was just on kingsnake looking through the geckos and someone had Halmahera geckos (vorax) on there for 40 and 45 dollars. I looked at the pictures and they all had brown eyes. If true vorax are a rare as people say could the eye color thing be wrong? Its so frustrating, whats a true gehyra vorax and whats a gehyra marginata