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I am looking to buy a viper gecko, but heard that they are really really fast. Is this true? If so then what gecko isn't so fast?Thanks, bye.

I do not know anything about Viper geckos, but I wouldn't say either my fattails or leopards are fast. They are really easy going really. I had a pictus gecko and that little sucker was fast as heck. So if you are looking for a "slow" gecko go with the ever friendly fattails or a leopard.

Jon

Cresteds and Gargoyles are also pretty slow and handleable.

John

Thanks, but I'm kinda looking for a vipr because of there hardiness and small tank requirements since I don't have like 50,000 square feet of room.Then I thought of something... it would be easy to lose something that gets only 4 inches. While its a baby do you think it would be ok to not have a substrate, because my step brother lost his anole under the repticarpet when he thought it got out when he opened the cage. About 4 years later, we clean out the cage and found him smuthered and stuck and gooey under the repticarpet. Thanks,bye.

Um...

How about you and your brother DONT get any more "pets"...

I can't FATHOM how much ignorance it takes to leave a cage for FOUR YEARS because you thought the poor Anole had "escaped"...

And then to "magically" find the um...how did you put it? "Smothered and stuck and gooey" Anole Wow...4 years later under the carpet?

Damn...I really hope you don't have any children or any other living things under your care...because it doesn't sound like you clean house very often. Darwinism, baby.
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Too many Leos
1.0 feline "Spot"
0.1 canine "Tika"

First of all I didn't care for HIS anole, I wasn't gonna care for it because it wasn't myne and I hate my step brother. He says he likes reptiles and I know he lies, thats why he had to give up his kenyan sand boa, he didn't care for it. I on the other hand love them. I think it was just a misunderstanding somewhere.I cared for it, but I didn't care for it. I felt sorry for it, but I wasn't gonna make sure he had water and was fed and all that.

O.K. guys cool it down a little.
As for viper geckos, I had to care for about 200 of them at a time for about 4 years. Boy did feeding get monotonus.
When they were babies we kept them in plastic shoe boxes with small airholes on the side, a plain paper towl on the bottom and one of thoes little plastic pitrie dishes for water. We used waterbed heating strips for heat with a dimmer switch too controll the temp. Not a fancy set up but it worked. As for speed; they were quick but nothing we could not keep up with. Nothing like a day geckos speed. When they are young they are fast for their size but still slow enough. When they are adults they are slow enough we could handle tham fine. Just keep an eye on them.
They are easy to care for just keep them watered, feed and warm.

OK OK OK OK, I'm cool, I'm cool. Alright how much did it cost? How big of a plastic storage container did you get? Thanks, bye.

I don't know that you would want to do what we did in the herp lab where I worked, that was more of a "mass production" sort of thing. A 10 gallon glass aquarium with a screen lid sould work fine for 2 viper geckos. just make sure they have plenty of hiding spots.

P.S. We used sweater boxes on a shelf designed so the shelf above the box acted as the lid.