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I talked with Nick Purvis on the Lizard General Forum Board, discussing breeding geckoes. We started discussing cross-breeding and how would you guys feel on cross-breeding tokays and house geckoes?If not what geckoes would be good to crossbreed or to normally to breed inexpensively?Thanks!

please dont try this...

Dont even waste your time

Besides that its not natural, and inhumane, it wont work. Tokays are huge lizards compared to house geckos...

We should try and keep the bloodline pure for geckos, and not try to hybridize

...i would take the 'cross breeding' idea out of your head right now, and throw it out in the garabage.

it might sound a 'cool' idea at first, but personally, i dont see the point...

sorry to sound harsh, but i think others here agree with me...

M.N

You're welcome to give it a try but it more often than not, does not work. First, the tokay will eat the house gecko for breakfast. Try something of similar size if anything, say a day gecko. Then you run into the problem that they both have different breeding cycles and therefore you cant get either the proper temperature for breeding. Then there is that whole factor that its not natural and they probably wont do it but hey thats luck. In any case, even if you get that far, chances are the eggs will be either infertile or things will come out dead. In all likelyhood, this is probably a bit much for a beginner breeding project. You would have to study up majorly on genetics and so forth. I would say stick to 1 species for now, while everything is going on and if you're still interested, read up heavily on genetics and what would work and what wont (before you waste 100 days for hatching).

Thats a silly idea. Tokays and most house geckos species are far to distantly related to crossbreed.
The only species from which is suspected that it may crossbreed with tokays, even in the wild, is Gekko smithii.
Tokays definitely do not even crossbreed with other closely related geckos like G. vittattus or G. ulikovskii.
Also most house gecko species do not vrossbreed even if mixed in the same tank for years.
I know about some possible crossbreeding between geckos species. But I won´t tell you, since I think crossbreeding should only be of scientific interest and is nothing to mess around with-silly boys

Ci@o

Ingo

Yep, think everyone covered it well. Pick the species you want to work with and breed only them so you will enjoy the benifits of all the work you put into. Its very upsetting to spend so much time and effort to only get infetle eggs that die not to mention what being gravid does do a female.
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My posts and replies are my experiences only
1.2.10 Tokays
1.4.8 Leos(11 albino)
1.2.0 AFT's(amel male)
0.2.0 Stenodactylus Petrii(Dune Geckos)

when your succesful with one species, which ever you choose heres what you can look forward to. Believe me its so rewarding to watch this happen and to raise the young.
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My posts and replies are my experiences only
1.2.10 Tokays
1.4.8 Leos(11 albino)
1.2.0 AFT's(amel male)
0.2.0 Stenodactylus Petrii(Dune Geckos)

evil mouse struck again

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My posts and replies are my experiences only
1.2.10 Tokays
1.4.8 Leos(11 albino)
1.2.0 AFT's(amel male)
0.2.0 Stenodactylus Petrii(Dune Geckos)

Thanks everyone for your comments, and i probably wont be cross-breeding anytime soon. Maybe in a decade ill look into it again!I was thinking of which species to go with, something inexpensive to buy, but that would be entertaining to watch and mayb something i could hold...

And if you love raising MORE babies and have the space:

np
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My posts and replies are my experiences only
1.2.10 Tokays
1.4.10 Leos(13 albino)
1.2.0 AFT's(amel male)
0.2.0 Stenodactylus Petrii(Dune Geckos)