[hofud]

Dear All!

I' am newbie here. I need someone's help to indentify my gecko. I bought it almost a year ago. Few weeks ago I found articles about the fact that many countries sold p.turneri as p.bibronii. I send two images one where the gecko is younger and smaller and another where she is bigger and before molt. Could anyone tell me which species is my gecko? I would say turneri due to the photos that I found on the internet. However I saw photos for instance on wikipedia where the gecko looked like my one and it was titled as bibronii. Any opinion?

Best wishes
Hofud

[Kevin McRae]

It's a turneri.

They are actually Chondrodactylus turneri now, not Pachydactylus turneri.

[geckko]

Hello
if you understand german i can help:

Unterscheidung von C. bibronii und C. turneri

or this is where i discuese about my turneri i believe
also they are bibronii!!

www.napalm.at :: Thema anzeigen - Ihr habt mich angesteckt ) (terra pics)

hope i help you
but i believe also they are turneri because
bibronii are very rare in europe


Sebi

[hofud]

Thanks for the fast answers. Unfortunately i don't understand german. I thought that this a turneri however i wasn't sure. I purchased it as a female. Now as this turned out i am not sure about its gender too. Do you have any idea how to determine that? Or is there somewhere reference to the gender differences of turneri? It seems to me that many gecko keeper in my country doesn't know what they bought from professionals. Why the pet stores sold them as bibronii. Is that ignorance or there are some other reasons?

[hofud]

Hello!

Maybe a ventral view photo is good to identify my c.turneri's gender.

Regards
Hofud

[twitch_doberman]

Originally Posted by hofud

Hello!

Maybe a ventral view photo is good to identify my c.turneri's gender.

Regards
Hofud

its a female deffinately.

[hofud]

Thanks for your reply. At least one thing that is true from the store where I bought her. Now I have to find a male and another female.

[geckko]

Hi

I´m searching for a male also I had 2 females

Sebi

[cindy]

Hey,

And I'm still searching for a new female!! My female died a couple off months ago, and the petstore were I bought my couple, do not have them anymore...

I've read about Chondrodactylus turneri that they are often cannibalistic toward each other, were in nature they somethimes live in relatively large groups. Due to this aspect, I'ts adviced not to house this species in a group, but only as a couple. The couple should be similar in size also. Anybody else ever heard off this????
My male and female never looked at each other as 'a nice snack', but were kept in a large group at the petstore. So I'm a bit confused about it.
Kind regards,

Cindy

[hofud]

Hello Cindy!

I heard that too. They live in groups in the nature. Unfortunately I haven't seen such thing yet. Apparently they have bigger livingspace there so if it's neccessary they can run away. I guess the size of geckos needs to be similar maybe this is true most of the animals too.
In my opinion not just the size of the terrarium is important but the way you equip it with logs and branches. I saw many terrariums where the owner set a big one without large amount of moving surface. Anyway I asked a petstore yesterday that how many turneri geckos can be kept together without problems and he said that i could keep four or five in a 100-120l terrarium. Although in my view the personality of geckos could change the proportions.

Do you know the reason of your gecko's death?

Regards
Hofud