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Well I recently bought a house gecko because I was informed that they will eat them and I was curious to see my tokay try and catch these little speed demons. My tokay however doesnt seem to mind the hous geckos company and they will often spend time in the same hiding spot wiothout and disputes. I haev crickets in the tank alot so is it simply that he prefers to eat them? will he need to be hungry to go after larger prey items?

Also my tokay doesn't make any noise. no trouble biting at me should my hand wonder to close to him when im cleaning the tank but none of the commonly spoken about barks.

It's amazing that the most feared gecko of all with a pitbull attitude really isn't that aggressive except when threatened. Tokays don't attack they only protect when needed.
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My posts and replies are my experiences only
1.2.15 Tokays
1.4.10 Leos(13 albino)
1.2.0 AFT's(amel male)
0.2.0 Stenodactylus Petrii(Dune Geckos)

Any idea why he isn't making the typical tokay noises? does he need a mate?

Also would he be more apt to eat a anole since there of a entirley diffrent family?

Are you positive its a male? and if it is a male there may several reasons why it doesn't make mating calls, I take it thats the sound your looking for. The Tokay is too young, the Tokay is WC and not adjusted to captivity, Tokay is new to a home and hasn't settled in, Tokay is stressed from surrroundings(home to small, conditions not correct), or it may just be shy. I really could'nt tell you why it's not vocal but those are a few things that come to mind.
I have quite a few Tokays, male and female and actually hearing calls is rare not a common thing. Putting a female in the tank with him may not always get them vocal but a female in a nearby tank he can sense will prob get his attention. The most noise i actually hear from all my Tokays is them crawling across the screen tops. A mating call is a very cool thing to hear though, it's very lould and will startle you if close by, at first you wonder what the heck was that.

Tokays like most reptiles have a natural diet and I don't think other geckos and lizards are a part of it. Its very possible some aggressive or very hungry ones would attack and kill or maybe even eat one though but I myself have not found this to be common.
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My posts and replies are my experiences only
1.2.15 Tokays
1.4.10 Leos(13 albino)
1.2.0 AFT's(amel male)
0.2.0 Stenodactylus Petrii(Dune Geckos)

Well I was told he was captive bred and the habitat seems right for what i was told and have seen. The guy wasn't 100% sure on the sexing so maybe I did get a female. Thanks anyway for all the help and hey my Tokay got a little buddy for a room mate.

Maybe this will help you. I took these pics this morning to help someone on another forum. Good luck and hope your Tokay makes some sounds for you.

Female Tokay, 3 year old

Male, 9-10 month old, notice waxy excretion out of preanal pores
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My posts and replies are my experiences only
1.2.15 Tokays
1.4.10 Leos(13 albino)
1.2.0 AFT's(amel male)
0.2.0 Stenodactylus Petrii(Dune Geckos)

Are you kidding! When I used to live in Thailand, way back when I was a little boy, I heard my cousins and uncle told me that the Tokays would make a snack out of the parakeets in the cage. I'm not sure how much of that is true, but I have heard pet birds that have gone missing and people see the culpret next to the cage. I don't really know if they actually see them eat it or not. There is also another myth in Thailand that green vipers would crawl into the tokay's mouth and down the throat inorder to eat the liver. My guess is that the tokay was trying to eat it, but could not swallow the whole snake. At my grandmother's house there used to be a pair of tokays that live in the wall of her house. And some night I would hear it make the mating call. They used to creep me out the way they look and the sound they make, but now I have one for a pet, a little girl, I think!

omg are you in bad need of sardistic sensations? why would you want your tokay to eat an other lizzard when its not necessary? the only reason to feed lizzards is, when you keep an animal that feeds on lizzards only.
hey, but great you got a parasite free tokay. just go on feeding him wild caught geckos and anoles.... or if he doesnt eat them, pair him up with them... smart move
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Ingo Hess
My Reptiles

ps: sorry for partitial strange english, im from europe, austria.