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Ok, I used to have leopard geckos but my mom said in order for me to get a snake I would have to get rid of the geckos. I wanted a snake for years before that so I sold them. I loved to watch them woggle their tail and jump at meal worms and crickets. So what other gecko or geckos could I fit in a 10 gallon? I want them to be fun and I would like to maybe get 2. Thanks

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Lots of people will laugh at me for this, because so many are used as feeders, but I have found the small Meditteranean or house geckos to make amazing pets. Only growing about 3 inches long, they are really active, emerging at night, and they have bumpy toad-like skin, and bulging eyes with vertical pupils. Once you set up a naturalistic vivarium, you don't really need to do much but mist, feed, and change water.
They are awesome geckos! You can't handle them much, but they are really cool just to observe! And they are about $5 only. They don't need light, because they are nocturnal. Just dust the pinhead crickets or fruit flies, and keep them moist and warm. You should really try keeping some!
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Banded geckos are kind of like miniature leos...pretty much identical care requirements, they wave their tails around like a cat when they are stalking prey, and they're small enough to be able to keep two in a 10 gal. They tolerate handling very well, although they're a little harder to handle than leos because of their small size. They are inexpensive, and great fun to watch because they climb and jump quite a bit despite their lack of lamellae. I've found them the most active and entertaining of all my gex.
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One of these days I too would like to own some bandeds. They seem like they'd be pretty cool critters.
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