Can young geckos be 'marked'?

[Turtlestork]

In the future I want to start breeding crested geckos and the thing is, with their color fluctuations throughout their life cycle, they will be hard to keep track of or tell apart. I was wondering if there was a way of marking them with some kind of substance that would give them like a blue or red or other color dot so they can be told apart? Thanks.



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[Hilde]

Chances are that it will be gone with the next shed. I take pictures of them as they hatch, and any I might want to keep as holdbacks are photographed every couple of weeks to keep track of the changes.
I can't think of any non-toxic markers that I would consider using. If it's not going to come off with the shed, it would have to penetrate deeper than just the surface, marking the gecko itself, which wouldn't go over well if someone bought it and mistook the mark for something natural. I sure wouldn't want to buy a gecko with a permanent 'marker tattoo'.

 

[Brian]

There are lots of ways to mark geckos. Just none someone who keeps them would probably want to do.

I suggest the easiest way is if you can keep them in pairs if you have the time and space. That's the only way I've been able to keep track of some things until they get older.

 

[leopardbreeder]

I was thinking about this one time. A tattoo is you will. It would be very hard to do though.