Help with a flying Gecko!

[LeTatoV]

Hello everyone!
I joined this forum with the hope that you can help me with my gecko!
A few days back I got a flying gecko as a gift, and I putted him into a bioactive enclosure that I had set up, however, he's not eating, I was putting a small container with mealworms and roaches every night, but he never notice them, how do you feed your geckos?

 

[Herpin Man]

Dump the insects in, let the gecko hunt.
It's pretty common for them to take a few days before they will start eating.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

I wonder whether your Ptychozoon kuhli (?) was wild caught. If so there is a good chance you'll find bright orange reddish mites here and there on his body. If that's the case, I can tell you how to remove those mites. Unfortunately you placed him in a planted enclosure right away, before ANY quarantine in a separate, simple, enclosure. You may be giving those mites a chance to multiply.

If he is wild caught, switch him to a simple enclosure for now. Then search his body for bright orange mites.

 

[LeTatoV]

I wonder whether your Ptychozoon kuhli (?) was wild caught. If so there is a good chance you'll find bright orange reddish mites here and there on his body. If that's the case, I can tell you how to remove those mites. Unfortunately you placed him in a planted enclosure right away, before ANY quarantine in a separate, simple, enclosure. You may be giving those mites a chance to multiply.

If he is wild caught, switch him to a simple enclosure for now. Then search his body for bright orange mites.

Thank you! But he was already quarentined for a bit more than month (while I was making and establishing his tank) and I already looked for the mites.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Thank you! But he was already quarentined for a bit more than month (while I was making and establishing his tank) and I already looked for the mites.View attachment 47600
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That's excellent! I had no way of knowing this from your first post.

Everyone does things differently. I have 3 female Ptychozoon kuhli. My oldest was captive hatched on June 25, 2003. This June she'll be 16 years old! :biggrin: In fact she's the gecko in my avatar. That image was taken when she was 16 months old.

I use these tall containers for feeding each gecko. The geckos have no trouble getting their food. This container measures 12.7 cm tall.

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Occasionally it's these which hold 8 ounces. They are 5.1 cm tall.

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[LeTatoV]

That's excellent! I had no way of knowing this from your first post.

Everyone does things differently. I have 3 female Ptychozoon kuhli. My oldest was captive hatched on June 25, 2003. This June she'll be 16 years old! :biggrin: In fact she's the gecko in my avatar. That image was taken when she was 16 months old.

I use these tall containers for feeding each gecko. The geckos have no trouble getting their food. This container measures 12.7 cm tall.

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Occasionally it's these which hold 8 ounces. They are 5.1 cm tall.

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Don't worry, it was my bad that I didn't point that out before.
Can you tell me a bit more about this method? How long do you leave them inside, and how many insects?

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Don't worry, it was my bad that I didn't point that out before.
Can you tell me a bit more about this method? How long do you leave them inside, and how many insects?

Using feeding containers makes it easy to know whether or not a gecko is eating. The containers also keep bugs contained in one place, so leftover bugs DON'T stress out the gecko.

• Add just a pinch of dry insect diet in with the bugs. Then the insects have some food while they're waiting to be the gecko's next meal.
• If your gecko is hungry, insects are usually eaten within 24 hours.
• Leave the tall container inside the enclosure for several days.
• Experiment with the number of insects.