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I'm looking to start a gecko breeding project. Ive kept many other reptiles before, and I want to start breeding, but I want to start with something relatively low maintenence and easy to breed, and something inexpensive if there were any tragedies since it would be my first time. So far, in the classifieds, Ive found several adult matches, including Gold Dust Day Geckos, White-Line Geckos, and Flying Geckos. I was hoping someone could point me out a good care sheet online or some thorough information on how to breed any of these species. Any info big or small would be helpful.

~Molly

I bred golddust day geckos for a few years. If you want, you may email me with any specific questions you have and I would be glad to answer them for you.

Heres a pic of my favorite breeder male. I sold my whole collection off last year to make room for my Phelsuma mad. grandis and my Phelsuma klemmeri.

Joe Farah
farahcon20@yahoo.com

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- Joe Farah

well, two of the ones you mentioned would be fine, but i definitely would not start with flying geckos. The wild caught ones usually come loaded with parasites and are not the easiest animals to acclimate. If you can find a nice pair of white lined geckos they would be a good start.... but Crested geckos and gargoyle geckos are also a very good option along with fat tailed geckos and leopard geckos. Do your research and ask a few questions ( there are sub forums like rhacodactylus( for cresteds and gargoyle geckos). So just keep reading and let us know if you have any more specific questions.

Although Leopard and Fat tail geckoes are almost too common on the market, they are both pretty easy to breed.

Quigh

I'll definetely avoid the flying geckos in that case. What about the Gold Dust Days? Both the pairs I found were wild caught, I know theres a chance of parasites, but is it very common with them?
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2 Mountain Horned Dragons, 2 Green Plumed Basilisks, 1 Albino Corn Snake, 1 Normal Corn snake, 1 Sumatran Red Blood Python, 1 Chinese Water Dragon, 1 Mexican Black Kingsnake,

honestly, over 99% of the animals that you get from the wild will have some kind of parasite. it's just some animals deal with their parasite loads better than others. Stress ( shipping, importing etc.) will raise the parasite loads in some animals to a dangerous level. Under optimal conditions, the parasites don't have any major effects on the animals.
I have not worked with WC day geckos, so i would not be a good person to ask ( but there is a phelsuma subforum you could ask that in)

Pictus geckos and viper geckos are both great, easy to breed, easy to care for.

Kevin