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hey i'm trying to decide if i should get a peacock day gecko (phelsuma quadriocellata) or a henkles leaf-tailed gecko (uroiplatus henekli) i know you guys are prabably gonna say uros but i'm posting this on the regular gecko board too help me i can't decide!

Although I can't answer your question , I never have had one.

I like the uro's alot, and they are quite bazarre looking, very cool !

Guess you just have read all you can on each and make a decision, on which is better for you. As far as who is going to be the easiest for you to keep , enclosures, food ect....

Get one of each ! LOL

Eve

thanks Eve i was acctually just thinking of getting one each but my wallet will be the jugde of that but the thing is i'm having trouble setting up a good enclousure for any heneklis

not sure if i spelled that right but.. thats another main thing. if you wanna see an active gecko in the daytime go for the day gecko. but if you wanna see a gecko sleep during the day get the uroplatus. i admit uros are lazy during the day, but once you see them active with there huge pupils at night its really cool. and i like watchin em eat too, how they just lunge at the crickets and worms. but i've never had a day gecko, so talk to the people who have and get their side.
-Sincerely
ScaleyPimp

i've heard that moss is the best substrate for them butmy conserne is that the crickets will ive and hide in it you know like the kind at the pet store and when they lunge at the cricket wont the eat some moss also? this is what i'm really worried about

Hi Lint,

You don't have to use moss as a substrate. In fact, i think that would be a bit extravagant, expensive, and hard to clean. I use peat moss (dampened of course. I bought a bag of peat moss, threw all of it on the floor of the vivarium (which is a homemade tank roughly the dimensions of a 45 gallon). Then I added some sticks which I found in my yard and baked to remove parasites (get thicker ones so that they can lie completely flat on them). I added two live potted plants, and voila!... Henkeli enclosure. Also have a flourescent light above them. I mist 2x per day. I think you will enjoy thesae guys a lot more than day geckos, but I'm biased. I've never kept day geckos and I'm really not that fond of them. They do look a lot like overpriced anoles to me. I just think that my big, patterned and color-changing night stalkers are so much cooler.
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?.?.? Leopard Geckos (eggs incubating)
1.1.1 Rhacodactylus ciliatus
2.5 Paroedura picta(eggsincubating)
1.1 Paroedura bastardi
1.1 Paroedura androyensis
1.1 Hemitheconyx caudicinctus
1.1 Cyrtodactylus irianjayensis
1.1 Gekko gecko
1.1 Pachydactylus turneri
1.1 Uroplatus henkeli
0.0.1 Hemidactylus turcicus turcicus
1.2 Teratolepis fasciata

Snakes
1.0 Blizzard Corn
1.0 Christmas corn
1.2 Reverse Okeetee corn (1 tang)
0.0.1 Ball Python

hey lovelyleopards can i setup the tank like a tokay but instead of soil substrate moss because my tokay tank has tons of logs and bark so would this work?

Probably so - just don't keep them as warm as you keep your tokays. They don't dig high temps - upper 70's is sufficient. The more logs and branches (deparasitized of course), the better. Just make sure you can keep them VERY humid. I have a screen top on my cage, so I keep part of it covered with saran wrap to hold in humidity.
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?.?.? Leopard Geckos (eggs incubating)
1.1.1 Rhacodactylus ciliatus
2.5 Paroedura picta(eggsincubating)
1.1 Paroedura bastardi
1.1 Paroedura androyensis
1.1 Hemitheconyx caudicinctus
1.1 Cyrtodactylus irianjayensis
1.1 Gekko gecko
1.1 Pachydactylus turneri
1.1 Uroplatus henkeli
0.0.1 Hemidactylus turcicus turcicus
1.2 Teratolepis fasciata

Snakes
1.0 Blizzard Corn
1.0 Christmas corn
1.2 Reverse Okeetee corn (1 tang)
0.0.1 Ball Python

ok thanks i'll do that

I agree, it is neat, I just watched both of mine dive and eat, they look so freaky but really cool.

Like you said earlier, its a money thing also.
The uro's are expensive and then a set up,

I'm not sure what the day geckos run, but I think they are up there also.
AHHHH anyway ya look
at it, this can be an expensive little hobby sometimes, I know that for sure !

Good luck with what ever you choose Let us know, heheheh

Eve