Exotic Shit

lokie

lokie

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A few months back I made a post to find out what was living beside my shed.
https://www.rollitup.org/toke-n-talk/524672-wht.html

It was decided that they are Tokay Geckos.
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Well since then I have discovered them there are at least 3 and very possibly 4 adult
Tokay living within 15 feet of my back door and they must be mating.
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Meet Wally. He is only 2 1/2 inches from nose to tip of tail.
At night Wally lives between the screen and window beside my evening chair
eating all of the tiny bugs attracted by my reading lamp. I think he is cool.

Wally never comes out in the day so I know it is not one of the common lizards
that are seen by the dozens during the day. I believe he is a baby Tokay.

One night while watching Wally hunt his dinner I noticed someone else lurking in the shadows.
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Kermit was helping himself to the bugs on the outside of the screen while Wally scoured the
inside of the screen.

Well in all of the time I have been observing these creatures I have learned to spot
their scat. I have been considering collecting the exotic guano and making a tea for my plants.
Even if it did little good the thought of home grown "free range" guano is nifty.

No matter, a sample of the Tokay and Frog dropings have found a home on
a pseudo trophy shelf beside the bottle of wallaby and koala poo just opposite
of the kangaroo vertebra.:blsmoke:
 
Thats awesome! Another reason I hate living in the North.. no cool reptiles... non native or not. In phoenix we used to get all kinds of cool lizards and geckos.
 
i remember that old post and thought they were cool then.. super cool now with the frog and all...

i don't get much in the way of reptiles around here, or any for that matter.. maybe a few toads, that's about it though.. :(
 
wally looks like a leopard gecko also. they come in different colors and they store fat in their tail an it can get plump.It is hard for me to see your pic but those are awesome. Hopefully you live where it i swarm. Think someone let them loose or is this common where your from.pet-leopard-gecko.jpg

EDIT: oops I see you called them Tokay. That big one on the fence looks like a scary dude/dudette
 
Used to get these all over the house in Tempe

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how long is the one on the fence. hard to tell from the pic
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We used to live in texas when I was a kid and these little horned toads were every where amongst other scary shizzle. I used to keep them in a clean cat littre box. Latley I have been into looking at dead spiders n flies with my tric scope. I want to get a good scope and look at and record my beneficials. Try to arrange and record a spidermite war of some kind.
 
I just found a random pic on the web if yout talking to me.
Now I gotta check everyone for sexy looking (for geckos) scars
 
charface said:
Think someone let them loose or is this common where your from.
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When I only saw one I thought it may have escaped or been released. Now That I have seen 3 or more adults
and now Wally I think they have been around here wild for a while.

I looked them up and found that in 1963 Tokay Geckos were released on purpose in south Florida to help control cockroaches.

charface said:
how long is the one on the fence. hard to tell from the pic
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That one I thinks is female and is about 10" long. The other that lives near her is larger, about 12" long.
I think it is male, his head is slightly bigger.

On the other side of the patio I think is a smaller female that I have seen. I may have seen a larger male
in the same area but it could also have been the same one from a different angle in the shadows.
 
Next time they are on the screen take a peek by their tail vent.

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Just don't try to pick the bastards up. They got a nasty lil bite. One of the more aggressive gecko species.
 
D3monic said:
Next time they are on the screen take a peek by their tail vent.

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Just don't try to pick the bastards up. They got a nasty lil bite. One of the more aggressive gecko species.
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Ha, he's a lucky one huh? 4 "DEVIL GECKOS" living in his back yard. Their bite is a little more than nasty and they are focused on making you bleed. FUCKERS ARE MEAN! I have been around maybe 6 and only one of the six was handleable - at times - because it was a baby. I hope you don't get snuck up on as their bite HURTS How is your experiment working?
 
update


since my last update there have been 3 more healthy baby's sighted. 1, 3, and 4 inches long.
sorry no pics. the camera always seems to be on the other side of the house
when i need it.

the 1" one i found swimming in my water bucket. While getting ready for
the watering rounds i look in and damn there he was.
i reached in, picked it up and set him on the wall in the shadows.

the thing must have been in shock. after setting it down he did not move for a min or so.
then he jumped up and scurried off down the back of the wall.

the female that lives behind an outdoor wall hanging is nightly found chowing down on
whatever she can catch as fast as she can catch it. the flood lights attract tons of insects.

In finding the 3 new baby's and seeing the female eat hardly I can deduce the
Tokay Gecko population on my back porch is thriving.

Makes me want to pass around doobies for all.
not sure if the feeling is elation for the gecko heard or just the fact
that Connie Chung was nice to me on this harvest.:bigjoint:

R.I.P:sad:
1 was found crushed in the back door jam. it will be missed.
 
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