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Day geckos and Zebra finches

paulstephen Aug 01, 2003 01:24 PM

I have an enclousure that is 4 feet high, three feet wide and two and a half feet deep. My question is, could i keep a pair of giant day geckos (or a larger species of day geckos) a a zebra finch in the same enclosure? Would the geckos harass the finch? I know all about mixing species, but my dad is a vet, and we would take all the proper quarintine procedures. Thank you. This a a picture of the cage, i would furnish it differently
--Paul

1.2 leopard geckos
0.0.1 sinaloan milk snake
0.1 ball python
1.0 Bearded Dragon

Replies (6)

antonm Aug 01, 2003 02:28 PM

Uhhh....umm.....birds? I dont even know what to say about that.....my guess is that the zebra finches are going to peck the geckos to death or at least injure them.....I cant really see any way a gecko can eat the finch but I see plenty of possibility of the finch tearing through the gecko's fragile skin....Infact I'm sure that the finch will kill it especially if its just a small day gecko. Besides, how are you going to keep a finch that hot or that humid? How....what......what the hell.....

Derek Benson Aug 01, 2003 07:46 PM

I wouldn't attempt that either. That's almsot as dangerous as mixing a brown colored mantella (mimicking a cricket) with a gecko or an anole.
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P. sauvagei
derekb15.tripod.com/tropicaltreasures
3.1 P. sauvagei
2.1.2 P. hypochondrialis
2.0 P. vaillanti
0.0.3 P. aurotaenia
2.2 B. orientalis
0.0.10 S. pustulosa
0.0.3 B. americanus
1.0 T. horsefieldi

antonm Aug 01, 2003 07:58 PM

A day gecko or a blue-green anole to be specific.

Derek Benson Aug 01, 2003 09:59 PM

Anyone who does that is not only crazy, but won't listen...
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P. sauvagei
derekb15.tripod.com/tropicaltreasures
3.1 P. sauvagei
2.1.2 P. hypochondrialis
2.0 P. vaillanti
0.0.3 P. aurotaenia
2.2 B. orientalis
0.0.10 S. pustulosa
0.0.3 B. americanus
1.0 T. horsefieldi

antonm Aug 02, 2003 01:20 AM

Thats still the coolest frog ever on your sig....makes me want to buy one every time I see it. But then albino cranwells are super awesome too....thats why I refrain from keeping frogs.

Divegod Aug 02, 2003 12:45 PM

Nice cage. But, in my experience, the laticauda are shy if disturbed, and might stress out with a flying thing in their cage. They need a lot of space with even dart frogs roaming around the bottom, so Im just speculating.

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