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Can someone help me out. I'm an Animal Control Officer for San Francisco and somebody dropped off a gecko that travled from French Polynesia in a suitcase by accident. I have not been able to locate on the internet. Its about 2 inches long, with a light brown body with dark blotches. Steinhard aquarium reccomended meal worms, but even those seem to big. Any help with feeding and housing instructions would be greatly appreciated.

if meal worms are too big try crickets, i never heard of a gecko to small to eat pin heads. as for the set up, it sounds almost to be a house gecko, but i'm not really sure with Europen geckos, try a small cage for the time being like a large or jumbo kritter keeper and but some dirt wth out pesticide or chemicals in it and some type of shelter, a paper towl roll always works well.

Thank you for the info.

In addition to what the other person said, I'd mist down the sides of his tank once a day so he can drink the droplets. He's probably very thirsty. You also can catch your own bugs around a lamp at night with a net. You probably can get a whole bunch of little flies and things very easily.

Um... French Polynesia isn't in Europe. It's an island near Tahiti near the Tropic of Cancer, though I don't remember which ocean, exactly. I think Pacific.

Yup, feed pinhead crickets if it mealworms are too big, and you might want to give him a heat lamp because I'm pretty sure French Polynesia is pretty warm.

If you have the time, you can browse this site (http://www.gekkota.org/html/gecko_photos.html) to see if you can find a picture of the gecko for identification. It's a long shot, but I couldn't find any resources on French Polynesian herpetofauna.

Christina Miller
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