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okay so anyway, im from sd county and i drove out here today in search of the western banded gecko. im staying in a hotel off the 10 just be for tuscon. no one seems to know about the geckos and everything ive read says you can find them on the roads at night. well, i didnt have an luck and all i found was giant ants, humungus spiders, 1 gigantor fly, and a kangaro mouse. after noticing that all the eyes that were glittering, were spiders that were bigger then my hand, i ran back to my car. haha.

ANYHOW, DOES ANYONE ANYWHERE IN ARIZONA KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND THE BANDED GECKOS! ill only be here for one more day and i want to find one and checko out its habitat! please help! thanks.

All I can tell you is to keep trying! I found a bunch north of Phoenix last monday, but they just show up when and where they want to. I think the spiders you are referring to are the female Wolf spiders. It's that time of year...

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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
1.2.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Salt and Pepper Bull Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
3.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snake
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnakes
1.0.0 Gray Banded Kingsnake
1.0.0 Hypermelanistic California Kingsnake
0.1.0 Albino High White California Kingsnake
0.1.0 California Kingsnake
1.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
4.2.0 Rosy Boas (Harquahala, Mexican, Temecula, & Mid Baja)
1.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.0.0 Ball Python
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
1.1.0 Red Sided Garter Snakes

LIZARDS
2.0.0 Bearded Dragons
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko
0.0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko
0.0.5 Sandfish

AMPHIBIANS
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
0.0.1 White's Tree Frog
0.0.2 Gold Frogs
1.0.0 Fire Salamander

go to old tuscon. we saw one on the road that leades to it!!on pics sorry.

check the local laws. i used to live in AZ and new laws come out every year. banded gekos used to be quite easy. either find them at night on road or better yet find some old buildings and pretend you are back east(flip stuff). around old piles of junk ect...