I wanted to know if there is anyway possible to tell how old a crested gecko is?? As in if the younger cresties are more active?? or if the older ones eat alot less?. My crestie i can barely tell that anything is gone out of his dish. But i do as alot of people do i am modering him and i make sure he has fresh food everyday if not every other day. I am misting in his tank nightly.. I have a fishtank temperature gauge in there and it seems to be doing the trick. It is staying in the green witch is the right temperature. I have a humidi gauge and it stays between 45-60 degrees. He has not shed since i have gotten him and that was almost 1 month ago. He is very calm when i hold him but does tend to try and fly when he clearly cannot (i do catch him all the time). Can someone help me figure out as to why he is not eating much CRESTED GECKO DIET?? Or not shedding, or not drinking much??
Crested gecko age??
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Rhactastic
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Cresties, like a lot of other geckos, get most [if not all] of their actual water intake from drippings off leaves. And they also get a lot moisture from their diet. So you will most likely never see them at their water bowl. I keep one in my tanks on the off chance my gecko likes it though.
As for the food, their stomach is not very big. They don't always eat a full dish lol, sometimes they just peck at it. Some days they don't eat at all. But so long as they are not losing weight or acting weird they should be fine.
They are also nocturnal so you're most likely not going to see them being active during the day. My gargoyle sleeps in the same exact spot every day, which happens to be right by my head. It's a cute sight when I wake up lol.
But I have insomnia so I know she's VERY active at night.
The shedding could be a humidity issue. You want to get the humidity to ~70% when you mist at night, and the let the tank dry out (to ~50%) during the day. But if you don't see any stuck shed I don't see a problem. Some take a while. A month isn't too bad for an 11 month old. Also, he may have shed and you just missed it. [They eat their skin.]
As for the food, their stomach is not very big. They don't always eat a full dish lol, sometimes they just peck at it. Some days they don't eat at all. But so long as they are not losing weight or acting weird they should be fine.
They are also nocturnal so you're most likely not going to see them being active during the day. My gargoyle sleeps in the same exact spot every day, which happens to be right by my head. It's a cute sight when I wake up lol.
But I have insomnia so I know she's VERY active at night.The shedding could be a humidity issue. You want to get the humidity to ~70% when you mist at night, and the let the tank dry out (to ~50%) during the day. But if you don't see any stuck shed I don't see a problem. Some take a while. A month isn't too bad for an 11 month old. Also, he may have shed and you just missed it.
[They eat their skin.]
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Cresties, like a lot of other geckos, get most [if not all] of their actual water intake from drippings off leaves. And they also get a lot moisture from their diet. So you will most likely never see them at their water bowl. I keep one in my tanks on the off chance my gecko likes it though.
As for the food, their stomach is not very big. They don't always eat a full dish lol, sometimes they just peck at it. Some days they don't eat at all. But so long as they are not losing weight or acting weird they should be fine.
They are also nocturnal so you're most likely not going to see them being active during the day. My gargoyle sleeps in the same exact spot every day, which happens to be right by my head. It's a cute sight when I wake up lol.
The shedding could be a humidity issue. You want to get the humidity to ~70% when you mist at night, and the let the tank dry out (to ~50%) during the day. But if you don't see any stuck shed I don't see a problem. Some take a while. A month isn't too bad for an 11 month old. Also, he may have shed and you just missed it.
Yeah its possible that he might have shed just before i got him... He did have alittle bit of shedded skin on one of his scales and as i have long finger nails i toke a cutip, wet it and just gently rubed it untill it was moist and i just grabed it with my nails and it came right off.. I know they are nocturnal witch is why i only mist at night and i make sure his food is very fresh only at night.. I don't worry much on that during the day. He is not acting wierd as i stay up late watching movies with my mom. If i bring him outside he gets very fired up in the sun and his feet kinda turn a green ish color. As for the pictures i have posted theres not to many there where he is fired up. I am not sure if he is a tiger morph or something els but his father is a pinstriped tiger and his mother is stripless with some dalmation... He has little while spots on his legs some scales are white. I don't know if that is his breed or if its un normal but its there lol:crackup:
Rhactastic
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As I said in the other thread, it looks like a tiger. A tiger morph is a crestie with those stripes going all the way across the back and down the sides. I don't see any dalmatian spots or pin striping. And if the white spots are on the knees it's called having kneecaps.
The pictures on this thread make it hard to see any pattern on him though. If you are doubting if he's a tiger you need to post pics where we can see his back and sides a little clearer. In your other thread I could see the striping, but this one not so much. Do you have any clearer pics of him? (Based on the other thread I still say he's a tiger though. I'm just saying if you're really doubting it you can post clearer pics.)
The pictures on this thread make it hard to see any pattern on him though. If you are doubting if he's a tiger you need to post pics where we can see his back and sides a little clearer. In your other thread I could see the striping, but this one not so much. Do you have any clearer pics of him? (Based on the other thread I still say he's a tiger though. I'm just saying if you're really doubting it you can post clearer pics.)
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As I said in the other thread, it looks like a tiger. A tiger morph is a crestie with those stripes going all the way across the back and down the sides. I don't see any dalmatian spots or pin striping. And if the white spots are on the knees it's called having kneecaps.
The pictures on this thread make it hard to see any pattern on him though. If you are doubting if he's a tiger you need to post pics where we can see his back and sides a little clearer. In your other thread I could see the striping, but this one not so much. Do you have any clearer pics of him? (Based on the other thread I still say he's a tiger though. I'm just saying if you're really doubting it you can post clearer pics.)
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Spyral
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Since they eat their skin, it is easy to miss them going into shed. If you see stuck shed, you know they've done it recently.
Sometimes they like food left out for 2 nights, they eat rotting fruit in the wild so it may be more appealing to them when aged.
He could be a tiger, but his stripes don't show up so well in the pics.
Sometimes they like food left out for 2 nights, they eat rotting fruit in the wild so it may be more appealing to them when aged.
He could be a tiger, but his stripes don't show up so well in the pics.
TheOneBlueGecko
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I have had my crested (who is smaller and probably younger than yours for about two months), it has shed twice since I got her. The first time I only knew that she shed because I glanced into the cage at about midnight and saw that she was in the process of shedding, the other time I only knew because there was a small strip of skin on a branch. Both times she did not look really pale or anything when I saw her during the day. You gecko very well could be shedding without you knowing.
The best way to tell if your gecko is healthy is to weight her every couple of weeks. If she is gaining weight that is a good thing (until she is full sized) if she is losing that is bad.
One issue with your tank set up right now is that it is very open. I could recommend adding some more leaf cover to give her more places to hide.
The best way to tell if your gecko is healthy is to weight her every couple of weeks. If she is gaining weight that is a good thing (until she is full sized) if she is losing that is bad.
One issue with your tank set up right now is that it is very open. I could recommend adding some more leaf cover to give her more places to hide.
Well actually my gecko is a boy... I am getting more plants and stuff like that. I just need to find them for cheap. The plants i got in there right know are fake and i got them from value village and starelized it let it soak for 2 hours in steaming hot water and then put them in.. I just have to get more for him. I got him about half a month ago and only get payed 20 bucks am month. This 20 i am going to value village to look for more plants
TheOneBlueGecko
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The same comments should apply to a boy gecko as well, you just don't have to worry about the issues that can come about from having eggs.
The plants are not an urgent thing, just something to do eventually. I have found that craft stores can be great for fake plants, though I don't know how that is up in Canada.
The plants are not an urgent thing, just something to do eventually. I have found that craft stores can be great for fake plants, though I don't know how that is up in Canada.