u/Chezzabe

My husband got a crested gecko a bit more than a month ago, we got her tank all done and starting to do a slow introduction to move her. This is her getting to touch moss for the first time.

She seemed ok, didn't move for the whole hour but was moving her head around and tasting the air. So it's a start,

How did I do? My husband wanted to save this sad little crested he saw at PetSmart.(We are both delivery drivers for FedEx so we have no choice but to go in, I try and not look) I been spending the last few weeks gathering plants and supplies and tonight we finally got to build it. Hard to see but there is a long cork bark tube with multiple holes across the back. Made some jungle vines, foamed in one of the branches. For plants we got Spanish moss, some air plants, sansecieria, trandescantia, peperonia obitusifolia, rumohra adiantiformis, hoya, pothos and philodendron. In a week or two I will add some Cubaris sp. Cappuccino and pink springtails. Hopefully she can move in, in the next few weeks. We are keeping her in a tub while we get her back into good shape. I can't wait to see how it fills out after the plants settle.

How did I do? My husband wanted to save this sad little crested he saw at PetSmart.(We are both delivery drivers for FedEx so we have no choice but to go in, I try and not look) I been spending the last few weeks gathering plants and supplies and tonight we finally got to build it. Hard to see but there is a long cork bark tube with multiple holes across the back. Made some jungle vines, foamed in one of the branches. For plants we got Spanish moss, some air plants, sansecieria, trandescantia, peperonia obitusifolia, rumohra adiantiformis, hoya, pothos and philodendron. In a week or two I will add some Cubaris sp. Cappuccino and pink springtails. Hopefully she can move in, in the next few weeks. We are keeping her in a tub while we get her back into good shape. I can't wait to see how it fills out after the plants settle.

We got Mochi a while back and fell in love with him, the care, bioactives, isopods and everything in-between. After an expo a few weeks ago we got a 25% off coupon for a new shop in town so we went by and looked. They had two pine Island females and with the coupon she was only a little over $300. I thought about her for weeks, finally caved and went back for her.

Got to hold her for a few moments and she is jumpy but thankfully not spicy... Yet, hopefully she won't live up to her name. Lol

Feel like getting a good crotch shot is really hard. Are those pores above the flabby spot half way up from the legs?

Last month my husband kept talking about the sad crested gecko he saw at PetSmart. We both work as delivery drivers with FedEx so we have no choice but to go in there to deliver their packages. I try my best not to look at the reptiles but sometimes it's hard. He kept talking about one that he saw all week. Finally, on Thursday I said let's go get her. I never seen a crested acting as she did. The humidity inside the tank was below 40 %. She was curled up in a ball on the floor of the enclosure. They put her in a deli cup with a wet paper towel and she spent over 2 hours trying to lick up any moisture she cut off of it. We already have a leachi, so we kind of knew what we were doing. We got her in a 6q for now and that night went to our normal reptile store and bought the tank and all the supplies.

I don't think I realized how rough a shape she was in. I feel like in the few weeks we had her she has really filled out. I thought she just looked thin from being a baby. I think she was severely dehydrated. The last picture was the night we took her home, the first picture was last night. She was 11g when we got her and is already 13g in 3 weeks?

I been loving working on this tank. So far I only got to do a grow out 12x12x18 for the leachi. This one I actually got to foam in some of the background. Made some jungle Vines and processed and sanitized all the plants we've collected over the last month. It's still far from done but it's a work in progress.

My only question is how prone to eating the cleanup crew are crested? I got a healthy culture of Cappuccino Cubaris and pink springtails. I was planning on doing a really thick layer of leaf litter in the bottom.