Baby Gargoyle Gecko Handling

You want handling to be a positive experience and injury is not a positive experience.

Baby gargoyle gecko handling. Just a quick video of handling a gargoyle gecko. When you start handling your gargoyle gecko make handling sessions short no more than five minutes. Start handling sessions at just 5 minutes long every other day. By our team of animal experts handling our gargoyle geckos from hatch ensures calm relaxed pet geckos for sale.

It should help give you an idea of how to put your hands so that they can continually walk. Some of these foods come ready to eat and feature a baby food like consistency while others are powdered diets to which you ll need to mix in some water. These animal are very sensitive and need plenty of time to adjust before. Many successful keepers offer a commercial food five to seven days a week with the occasional handful of insects provided once a week or so.

For this reason you should wait until they are at least 3 inches svl. Gargoyle gecko handling and temperament. Still others feed a commercial gecko diet. As long as you take it slowly you will have a happy and healthy companion.

Newly purchased gargoyle geckos should not be handled but first allowed to settle in for three to four weeks to let them adjust to their new environment and to make sure they regularly feed. It doesn t matter whether you handle during the day or night although the gecko might be less skittish during the day. The gargoyle gecko rhacodactylus auriculatus. This will make baby gargoyle geckos feel safer and give them the chance to walk away if they are too stressed by it.

This is a few compiled clips of my baby gargoyle gecko eating pangea fruit mix complete. Allow the animal at least 1 2 weeks to acclimate to its new surrounds and do not handle it during this period. After they ve had time to settle in you can begin handling them for short periods of time within their enclosure. When you start handling your gargoyle gecko do so over a cushioned surface like a bed or couch.

You can also talk to your gecko and offer it treats. Gargoyle geckos are not quite as jumpy as crested geckos but they will leap if they get nervous. I spoon feed my baby geckos every few days to help monitor food intake. By having a soft landing pad ready you can prevent injury in case of an unexpected leap.

Baby gargoyle geckos tend to be flighty and can be injured in the course of handling. It s extremely hard to handle a jumpy gargoyle gecko while recording. This is my baby around 4 months old female red striped gargoyle gecko. Don t worry he didn t get hurt.