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Hello all, I am new to this forum. I just bought a crested for my girlfriend and we love it. I am going to get more. I am presently only keep redtail boa constrictors, but really want to get some geckos.

I really like the looks of the tokays, but am aware of their almost demonic temperament. I had one from the petstore that I worked at as a kid that I had tried to tame but did nothing but got bit and watched it hang onto the glove it had bit me through.

At any rate, I am wondering if anyone produces CBB tokays AND if anyone has had experience in making attempts to tame these tokay babies. If such an endeavor is likely to produce some tame babies, with a little handling effort of course early on, I might try to do this.

I am guessing that since I don’t see many CBB tokays, that the babies are just as bad as WC adults and thus no one bothers to work with them, but I just wanted to see what experience others have had and see how many exceptions there are to my guestimate.

Thanks!

there are a few tokay breeders. you'll see cb adds pop up in the classifieds from time to time.
about them being tame, it's just a luck of the draw sort of deal. i had a female that was quite evil the first 2 weeks i had her, but i tried holding her 15-30 minutes everyday for the first 2 weeks and she tamed down quite a bit.
now the male that i got ( he was HUGE, close to 14" anyways, goliath what a nasty one. i tried using the same technique and with nothing accomplished after the first month i just let him be. i just got used to the fact that when i took him out i'd be ready for a good beating and after awhile you hardly noticed the bloody outline of a huge tokay gecko's mouth on the side of your hand.

My experience is babies born in captivity and handled from the very start do much better has far as taming. Some are difficult and just fiesty but I get a percentage of offspring that take to handling pretty well. I have one female I hatched and kept thats about as tame(to me) as my Leo's. I've never been bite by her except for maybe a couple nips when she was a hatchling. Her first eggs are due to hatch anytime and I'm really looking foward to these babies.

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1.2.15 Tokays
1.4.10 Leos(13 albino)
1.2.0 AFT's(amel male)
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