r/AfricanFatTailedGecko

Went to go feed my Puddin Boi but all I found was a ghost 👻

Hi Everyone im looking for advice about my African tailed gecko temp.

I can not seem to drop the temp on the left cooler side.

I know they are different to other geckos as some have three temps and petries got to have it more humid but I'm struggling.

I've attached the pics.. the big one is his hide

Any advice please

Also a week and half in and I've still not seen him or eaten

Hi, my name is Belina and I’m two years old💗

Hi Everyone

I've just joined and thought I'd say hello I've had my first gecko and love him to bits.

Hes name is Petrie I've not seen him much as he's been hiding and not eaten yet which in stressing about but told not to.

Any tips would be amazing 😊

Oh im Jo lol

Please let me know your thoughts on his tank 😊

Been quietly lurking in here the last few weeks, so I wanted to share my gorgeous little girl, Mogi! She was an early birthday present from my roommates (who have quite a few reptiles of their own.) I’ve had her for two months as of tomorrow!

this is my son, soup.
i adopted him from a shop that had himz for about 4 years? he was in a small enclosure that just broke my heart:( i wanted to help him. hes now in a 40 gallon bioactive and ive had him for about a month, his personality is starting to shine:) ive only handled him once by his own choice, but i love him so much.

surprisingly this dude has a big appetite!!! there was a period of time it took a lot for him to eat, but i realized he was scared of tongs a bit and the feeding dish really helps. ive been moving him off of mealworms slowly (the shop said he ate meal worms so i started him on those) but now he has a huge appetite for dubia roaches which is awesome.

anyways, say hi to soup! i also have a bearded dragon named Miso lol

Our little AFT is still only eating crickets. I’ve fed him Dubai roaches but due to their reclusive nature not sure if he eating or finding them. He will not eat mealworms and won’t tong feed with us. When we fees crickets he is an avid Predator. But trying to carry his diet.

His tank is humid on one side and he has been in our home for about 10 months.

We also regularly add isopods. We feed him once a week with 20-30 small crickets ( small so they don’t attack him) and my son can handle him easily and he is very friendly.

Just trying to give him his best life. Also how often do you change out substrate if bioactive. We need to add some fresh on top. I also thought about. Putting an earthworm in soil for more ecosystem.

Hello, this is my beautiful girl Yoko! I got her around 4-5 weeks ago from an exotic pet store. As I was able to get a closer look at her I realized she had a very small spot of mouth rot, struggled to use her arms while walking, and was very malnourished and dehydrated. I immediately made a vet appointment and they found that she had pinworms. She was treated for that, mouth rot, given some vitamins n such, and i’ve been giving her warm electrolyte soaks and feeding her watered down repashy grub pie every day. As for her arms, the vet told me not to worry and to let the medicine do its job. Yoko has put more weight on and is looking much much better, but her arms haven’t improved too much, she still refuses insects, and at times her belly is super bloated. She can now climb over the edge of her enclosure onto my hand but it’s a struggle. Also, she accidentally places one hand on the other a lot which causes her to trips up and her shoulder blades are still very visible despite her weight gain(her hind legs appear completely healthy and my best guess is MBD). I now have another appointment with a vet that has more gecko experience but it is 2 weeks away. I was just wondering if anyone else has seen/experienced anything similar to this, what it ended up being, and if there’s anything I can do before her appointment to help her with mobility and to transition to insects.

ps. Yoko and her quarantine tank aren’t typically nasty with repashy all on em lol, I just normally take pics before I clean her up and disinfect her tank so excuse the mess.

I had a lot of old long logs, so I decided to bury them in her tank and made multiple different tunnels hide systems with moss she kept digging under her water bowl so I decided just to make her water bowl basically the entrance into a giant underground tunnel system I just wanted to know if it was a good idea I know the right side of her cage look baron, but that’s kind of because I threw everything underground and I don’t know why in the pictures. It looks small. It’s like a 50 gallon🫩 where the red lines are are where the tunnels are and where the circles are is where the moss hides are I also took a jar and put a sock around it. Hopefully, she likes it what yall think she was already in there all day

Finally got to set up his "bio-active" (no live plants) enclosure (still not his forever home cause moving out soon). Hes finally feeling dirt and proper humidity! His old enclosure was just a tub with paper towel and he'd rarely even walk around but now hes been roaming for the past 3 hours only to end up back in his paper tube. Progress i guess /jk

Hes him showing off how happy he is in his new tank