u/BlackButlerFan

Meet Cerberus, the tokay I was taking in from my boyfriend’s coworker. Just got him last night and he seems to settling in fairly well, definitely lived up to the name of them being defensive, lol. Had him open his mouth at me when I was putting stuff in his tank. The second pic is the state of the tank when I got it so the guy really didn’t do much with it and the third is with the stuff I added into it. I will be picking up more stuff today, what I got I picked up preemptively(one of the plants I was going to use for my little cresties tank, I have a hypo cappuccino girl that’s almost two months old now, until I realized it was too big) but hadn’t had a chance to pick up more. The only pet store I have in my area is Petsmart and it’s about a 50 minute drive to either of the two reptile based pet stores in my state. I do plan to get him a taller tank, this is an 18x18x24, since he is full grown but I’m waiting till after me and my partner move at the end of the month, trying to avoid stressing him out as much as possible. It seems like the guy was trying to make the tank bioactive and eventually gave up. Now, I need advice on the lighting and heat, what wattages would you all suggest? The guy didn’t give me anything of the sort and I’m worried he didn’t have anything like that for him, he had him for a year and I don’t think he knew what he was doing. Especially since he told me I should try handling him after a week. I thankfully don’t see any signs of MBD or anything but it still worried me. Ah, and I am aware that he is likely considered skinny, the guy was barely feeding the cutie so he’ll definitely need to gain some weight. I’ll be picking up some dubias and hornworms today also.

And for the people that didn’t see my other post, I’m definitely not new to keeping reptiles. I have three crested geckos, mourning geckos, a Bredli carpet python, and a cornsnake. But this will be my first tokay. I’m looking forward to getting to know this guy’s personality and I’ve already been talking to him, lol.

Welp, didn’t think I’d be going over this sub so soon but here we are, lol. So, I’ve thought about getting a tokay before but have hesitated mainly because of the price I’ve seen some of them for. Well, yesterday my boyfriend informed me that one of his coworkers is looking to rehome one, tank and all. He’s interested in getting it but I’m not sure what we’d be getting into with this and I’m honestly preparing for it to be a situation of this gecko is either in too tiny of a tank, I’m a firm believer of bigger is always better, or it’s in a properly sized tank but with no clutter or anything. So either way I’m prepared to spend money if I have to so I can make sure this gecko is actually going to be happy. My main thing I want to figure out is what has worked best for you all in terms of lighting/heat and prey items. And definitely give suggestion/links for climbable things! I have been searching for a rope or vine for my cresties and carpet python for ages and haven’t found any that work yet. So I’d definitely be huh multiple of those, lol.

And also, I currently have 3 crested geckos, mourning geckos, a Bredli carpet python, and a cornsnake so I’m definitely not new to keeping reptiles but I am new to keeping a tokay.

I finally have him

Need advice