Perhaps you have either a Hemidactylus garnotii or a Lepidodactylus lugubris. How would you describe the markings on your pet? How about posting a photo to the list? Then we can better help.
If your GH gets no lower than 57 F in the winter, your house gecko could be alright out there. (Once one of my Ll escaped through a window probably, and I found it outside on the skylight...temp in the low 60s.) However, you could also set up a warmer spot in the GH were Immaculata could come and go at will. Soon she'll be eating 2 wo crickets. You also can culture the fruit flies in the house!
Re Immaculata's origin...there is this phenomenon called parthenogenesis ("virgin birth") which occurs in only about five species of geckos. Perhaps there is a lister out there who can explain this better than I can.
In a message dated 11/17/01 12:00:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Subj: [Gecko] Baby house gecko
Date: 11/17/01 12:00:02 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anna Finkel)
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a funny story which ends in a dilemma that I hope someone can help me
with. Summer a year ago I built a greenhouse. Late summer I put in 2 green
anoles and ONE house gecko (the pet store said it was a house gecko). I put
mealworms in a bowl for them and the anoles helped themselves. I never saw
the gecko again. The anoles loved it until it began to get cold. I live in
Buffalo NY and the GH gets down to 57 F at night and many, many days are
dark and dreary in winter. It can go a week or two between sunny days and
the anoles weren’t happy anymore, so I caught them and kept them inside for
the winter. Since I had never seen the gecko after releasing it I assumed it
had escaped or died. This Sept., exactly one year later, I discovered a tiny
baby gecko (named Immaculata). He lives in a group of pots and I see him
foraging in them, probably eating fungus gnats and larvae (humidity is high
so the pots have lots of “wildlife” in them). I also have fruit fly cultures
going for him. He seems to be diurnal because I see him every sunny day. He
basks on the edges of the black net pots and turns very dark. He looks fat,
is 3/4 inch SV. My dilemma is this: can he survive the winter in the GH? So
far he’s doing fine and if I bring him inside, how can I provide him with
small enough food? So should I just leave him in there? Another alternative
is that I put him in an aquarium so he can have a basking light, but leave
him in the GH so I can have fruit flies in the aquarium for him. And
considering the time frame (him showing up a year after the last time I saw
the original gecko), how exactly did this whole immaculate conception thing
happen?
Thanks for your help and thanks again to those who helped me identify my
Homophilus fasciata.
Anna
Peace and hope,
Elizabeth
Seattle
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