r/tokaygeckos

Picked this little one up from an awesome clean store in Iowa. The owner said it’s been 5-8 months old, eating crickets every other to every 3 days. It was black and angry but after about 2 hours it’s back to being blue. What’s everyone’s thoughts on it? Pictures were taken thru the screen on the Tupperware tub lid I have it in, sorry if they’re crappy lol 🤷🏻‍♂️

Long time phantasmal redditor, first time poster, freshly a tokay owner. This is my new boy, The Little Lord Fauntleroy <3 Does he look alright, esp weightwise? (I was told he dropped his tail and regrew it a while back, so, y'know, beyond that!)

I'm 99% sure he was bred in-house at a trusted local exotics shop and they told me he's 4 months old, born in February. They had even smaller baby tokays that weren't ready to go home yet and I know they breed most of their own stock, so I believe it, though I've heard captive bred tokays are rare so perhaps I'm just naive. His carry-home tote had his birthday on it though.

I didn't entirely plan on getting him (I had an empty arboreal baby tank I had planned for something else that fell through, went to the shop and asked what could comfortably live inside of it (at least for a couple months 'til I'm in a bigger space and can get him the big big tank of his tiny little geck dreams) and they recommended him -- I fell in love with his fiesty little self!) so I'm a little less prepared than I would normally be before getting a specific breed of pet (my only other reptile is a hognose and I did years of research before buying him, lmao).

They gave me a fantastic and thorough rundown on his care before I even decided to take him home, and I've spent the last few days researching nonstop. He seems comfortable and lively and has eaten very easily every time I've tried, but I can't stop wondering if there's something wrong that I'm not able to see or something in general I'm not thinking of.

I do plan on taking him to the vet in the near future but before that: does he look alright? Under/overweight?

Do you have any tips for handling/taming? He's fiesty but I have been consistently able to hold him in my hand without getting bitten, and yesterday he walked on me for the first time :^)

I've been feeding him 2-3 small-to-medium crickets* a day, is that enough for now or should I be doing more?

Also, when you feed your tokay, do you usually drop feed? I hand feed my hognose because that's how he likes it (he's a total diva) and it feels strange not to be handfeeding this gecko but I know that handfeeding isn't necessarily normal, haha. And what do you give them? *I've been doing crickets because it's what I have on hand for my tarantula but I want to switch to mainly dubias, I think, and also try and diversify his diet in general if I can.

Any other tips and tricks are appreciated. I know I've essentially thrown myself into the deep end, gecko-wise, but my dream pet is a chameleon and I gotta start lizarding somewhere. I'm relatively new to the game but I'm up to the challenge! I would just love to know if there's something I'm not considering.

Thank you so much!!

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.

So my gecko have a stuck shed problem but then her tail and the other part of her body that have a stuck shed started to look brown. I took her to the vet to help remove the stuck shed but the vet told me to let her shedded on her own but till this day it started to get brown. Should I let her remove it on her own or should I help her remove the stuck shed on her tail.

Pictured are my two juvenile Tokays. I’ve had them both since they were about two weeks old. I purchased them from a local reptile store that had them in the same enclosure. We were told they were both wild caught and came from different suppliers.

Since then I’ve continued to keep them in the same enclosure. They’re about 4 months old now. When we got them, one was noticeably larger than the other. Because we were told they were the same age, that has led us to assume the larger one was likely male and the smaller one female. For the time we’ve kept them together there has been no signs of aggression towards each other. They often hide together and we find them sometimes laying on top of each other too.

They are still too young to sex so the theory on their genders is still unconfirmed. If we are correct that one is male and one is female, we’re prepared for them to mate.

Am I good to keep them together still? If they are male and female, can they live together indefinitely? The smaller one has seemed to start catching up in size, making me feel that there has not been a challenge for food. They started in a 12x12x18 and are now in an 18x18x24, and as they grow I’ll upgrade them to an even larger enclosure.

I have an extra enclosure ready, the interest in keeping them together is because it seems they have bonded, not because I’m trying to cheap out in their care. Most of the tokay cohab situations I see aren’t like this, where they’ve lived together their whole lives already. So any insight is appreciated!

Just checked it might worth crores..though selling this is illegal in India😄

This is Scylla. She is a female tokay who is about a year old. Shes been spending more time on the ground and I recently had to help her shed because she wouldn’t do it herself. I feel like her weight isn’t good. She eats crickets. What to do?

He hasn’t been eating as much, I feel like he’s getting skinny. Any tips to get him to eat. I’ve tried different bugs

Newish owner to a rescued tokay gecko that was abandoned by her previous owner and was just worried about her body weight and if she looked healthy

Just got this little guy/gal June 11th and they ate 6 meal worms and 2 super worms over the course of a week. Left them alone the first two days and then started handling every other day. Introduced GCD with repashe today while handling and they chowed down about half a mL from a syringe and then I left the rest of a small cup in their enclosure. Very easy care for so far. I also keep cresties, a gargoyle, and a leachie and this guy has been just as amazing.

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Anyone able give a rough estimate on how old they could be? Shop I got them from didn't have a clue as they buy from a breeder and then resell them in a physical store. Head to tail is about 4.5".