I GOT MORE MINI GECKOS! HOW TO UPGRADE A DESERT TERRARIUM!
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- Meet my 2 new elegant geckos (Stenodactylus sthenodactylus) I got from my good friend/fellow content creator Fadi @daffysreptiles! In today's video, I'll be showing you how I introduced them to my original pair to form a larger group of communal geckos! We'll watch them communicate with tail waving, and feed them some crickets, fruit flies and more! At the end of the video, I'm going to show you how I upgraded their beautiful desert or arid terrarium to maximize digging/burrowing enrichment and overall useable space for the animals! Hope you enjoy the video!
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Welcome back to my reptile room everyone! Let me know what you thought of today's video! Don't forget to answer today's question of the day and thank you for watching!
I really hope it's going great to cohabit them 🥰 Beautiful animals. Like u channel here 🤩
Love the enclosure! The added branch is a great update 👍 good luck to the new additions!
Hi... brother... I like it...❤❤❤❤
I built a tunnel system out of paper towel tubes under the sand for my Elegant geckos. I’m guessing they love it as I hardly ever see them anymore. I think they might be holding secret meetings in their underground lair, planning on how to take over the world 😂
Hahaha that’s amazing! 😎😅👌🏼
That's brilliant!!
Thank you 😊
Can we see it?😀
@@robro9274 Sadly I can’t post photos here and there’s not much to see anyway as it’s all under the sand. Basically I keep 4 Elegant geckos together with 5 Blue Death Feigning Beetles in a grey wooden enclosure that is 115cm x 37.5cm x 42.1cm. I glued together lots of toilet roll tubes and paper towel tubes and made an underground tunnel system with multiple exists. I just put that in the bottom of the enclosure and covered it with sand, leaving the entrances sticking out slightly. Then decorated on top of the sand with cork bark and fake plants ☺️ And the tunnels didn’t cost me a penny 😂
6:56 I totally thought she saw his tail as a worm and was about to attack. Their tail-wagging is ADORABLE!!!!
I was worried too! I’m glad I let it play out! I genuinely think they somehow know and just don’t lol. These guys are very tolerant or social. Thanks for watching!
That enclosure is beautiful. It's nice to see someone taking the time to ensure a proper environment for the animals in their care.
Thank you very much! I do my best! 🙏🏼☺️🦎
After your first video with these guys, I bought that same substrate for my desert terrarium. My blue death feigning beetles really like it! They’re a lot more active and exhibiting more natural behaviors. So thank you, from all of us ✨
Thank you for sharing! That’s really cool to hear! 🪲🙏🏼
HAHAHA! I swear I feed them this was after traveling for two days 😢😅
I love this setup bro! I still need to setup something like this for my group
Also love the little tail wags!! Definitely an underrated species!
I’m totally teasing brother hahaha! Thanks so much man! Fingers crossed they eventually breed!
These are a dream species of mine. Such stunning little geckos😍
Also, that smacking of the tokay battering around the horn worm at the beginning🤣
They are so fun! I want more people to like/appreciate them! Lol that’s Tiki for you! 😅
Right! I went back 3 times to watch that part. The way his eyes are moving in that part is wild!
Perfect timing this vid! I just setup a new 20 gallon bioactive tank for my Texas banded gecko, and have been thinking of reusing her old 10 gallon for some of these little guys for a while. I actually recorded the build for my 20 gallon, and am hoping to actually post a video of it as soon as I get plants into the setup. Anyways thanks for the cute teeny gecko content!
Oh, and for the QOTD: I actually raise nearly all of my feeders; mealworms, isopods, peanut beetles, Buffalo beetles, and rice flour beetles are all on the menu for my animals. I don't have many animals, but they all seem to have a preference. Some are picky, like my banded gecko who loves peanut and Buffalo beetle larvae but hates isopods, and my chameleon gecko loves mealworm and cricket gits but doesn't like much else. Others will eat literally anything, like my 2 firebelly toads and my crestie. Overall, it's nice to offer a diverse diet to my pets just to see what they prefer. I'm starting to breed more feeders too like mini roaches, superworms, and earthworms too, but I don't have enough to feed off at the moment.
Keeping a Leopard Gecko myself, she gets a wide variety of feeder insects but her favorites have got to be redrunners and grasshoppers.
She also likes snacking on the cleanup crew sometimes lol, luckily doesn't happen too much.
We have a "teenage" northern blue tounged skink. Their favorite food is whatever is currently unavailable.
Haha that’s funny!
Damn i was not ready for the slaps the 🦎 gave to the 🐛. Hulk smash!
Yea they always do that 😅!
These are among my favourite kept lizards... I had a ton of fun keeping them and they are a very active and rather easy species to keep. Love the video.
Great setup for some lovely geckos
Thank you so much!
They are adorable little geckos 😍🥰
Love their enclosure.
Thank you for sharing. Take care.
Thank you so much! Thanks for watching!
Nice back ground music! -And audio levels! people always overlook that
So cute
Indeed! Thanks for watching!
I'm a 90's baby, and when I was little I got one of those keychain bead animal kits. It had several different animal patterns, like frogs and dragonflies, but I was obsessed with the gecko pattern. I made a veritable army of bead geckos, but I didn't make them into keychains, so they were just the gecko form and I would treat them like they were my pets. I made them in all kinds of colors and patterns, and I loved them so much. When I am able to live somewhere with a more stable supply of feeders, I would love to keep several different species of geckos. But for right now I'll have to content myself with just my cat.
That’s pretty wholesome haha. Thanks for sharing your story! Sounds like you are pretty artistic! Cats are great too! 🐱
Hi! Love these little ones...so dang cute. Love the Madagascar videos also, so fortunate to be able to go and thank you for sharing so much of it with us. As always LOVE the way u care for all ur babies....thank you! 💯👏👏🫶👍😀🤗💯
Thank you so very much Dani! Really appreciate your kindness and support/viewership! ☺️🙏🏼
Excellent set up...And they are so cute,but all geckos are cute.
Thank you so much!
I love your little geckos. The enclosure is nice.
Thanks very much! 🙏🏼🦎
The main feeder for my desert Geckos Hemidactylus imbricatus are Isopods but they like crickets too.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
So glad your videos are back! My bearded dragon looooves hornworms. My African Fat tailed gecko loves crickets and dubia, my leopard gecko loves silkworms and my baby whites tree frogs are liking fruit flies but ive only had them for about a week, so we shall see.
🦎✨! Thank you very much for the kind words and thanks for sharing! Great options 🐛
I currently don't have any reptiles or amphibians but when I did have them my Uroplatus phantasticus loved Panchlora Nivea roaches while my Dendrobates leucomelas loved Aphids way more than anything else, even fruit flies.
Thank you for sharing! Wow, I would love to be able to culture aphids for my dart frogs! I’ve seen people post that in fb groups but it’s harder to source them in Canada! Thank you for sharing!
@@Reptiliatus Not a problem. I can't say I'm the first person to do it but I started doing it almost 20 years ago when there was a huge problem in my local area with fruit fly cultures not producing or out right failing and it was the only thing I could think of that was compatible in size.
So I went down to one of my local garden shops and purchased a bunch of mini rose bushes and collected a bunch of aphids from the rose bushes I had in my backyard. I placed the "bushes" for lack of a better term in a 300gl tank with a screen top and introduced the aphids to them and started culturing them that way for about a year. Then I found a better and much cheaper plant they loved. Beans, they love bean plants especially ones that are less then 2 months old. You can culture the bean plants in just about any size enclosure. I started with a 50gl tank and later I found these huge (10 or 15 gallon) 6 inch across 2 foot tall glass straight sided floral pitchers at Michael's I think. I added 4 to 6 inches of LECA to the bottom a cutout of weed stopper cloth and 8 inches of core and planted one to two seedling bean plants, you can get bean sprouts from the grocery store and use them to start with. Let them grow for a month at least before introducing about 50 none winged aphids to the plant. Let it sit for a month before starting to use the aphids, or as soon as you start seeing winged ones. They are really easy to cultures and have almost no die offs/fails like fruit flies and you don't have the same mite problems like with fruit flies.
I was thinking of get some of the Exo Terra Stone Desert substrate for a communal arid invertebrate enclosure I wanted to set up. I didn't think of sculpting with it. Awesome! This video was a big help. And of course I have a new reptile to add to our wishlist.
That's a great idea! I use it for my desert scorpions!
They are so adorable!
Thanks! Couldn’t agree more! 🦎🦎🦎🦎
love the channel!! came across it months ago looking for crested gecko care guides and now i got two cresties just as pets and im hoping to get a breeding pair this month at the tinley park expo! i live in the area so i feel pretty lucky about that lol. keep doin your thing man, you're living the dream!🔥
Thank you so much for your support and viewership! Really appreciate that! Congrats on the cresties! They are amazing animals! Good luck finding a pair you like at Tinley!
My emerald tree skink, Chaos, loves eating wax worms and black soldier flies once they pupate. It's awesome watching her catch them out of the air
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Brooooooooooo you are awsome bro I want to get these so bad and I was looking for more enclosure ideas bro you are the best
Haha wow, thanks for the kind words! 🙏🏼
First time I’ve heard of these!! Pretty cool little reptiles 👍🏼 love how they wiggle their tails around!
They are super underrated and don’t take up too much space either! Lots of fun!
@@Reptiliatus I’m a sucker for any gecko or lizard w large round eyes haha
I would love to see you use some desert terrarium plants in these type of mostly dry scapes.
I have Green Anoles. They can be very fussy! Their favourite is Waxworms but in Moth form. They're probably the only reptiles that aren't keen on Crickets 😅
I love the little sand Gecko's Dayyan. The enclosure is perfect. I have a cat and a betta fish, so my reptile fix comes from you.
Thank you so much! Happy you like them and their terrarium! 🙏🏼
Beautiful species.👍
Thank you!
Really great video. They are so cute
Thanks very much for watching! 🦎
my crested gecko LOVES cricket's
They love fast-moving prey!
They almost have a Perentie pattern & color to them. The other thing I notice is that, in any animal I’ve ever seen, the babies always have that “baby face”. You can see they’re young. It’s so cute!! Ever since meeting you at AnimalCon, I’ve been deciding on what lizards I want to get. They’d be my first lizards and I only have 2 Ball Pythons so, not a lot of reptile experience. But I really want a pair of lizards! 🦎❤️🦎
Interesting observation! haha yea! Did you find it went away when I showed them presently/all grown up? Again, was a pleasure chatting with you! I admire your patience! You are really taking your sweet time to make sure you are happy and sure about what animals you want!
@@Reptiliatus Yes, they no longer had that “baby” look. Their heads were rounder looking as babies and even their mouth shape looked younger. Now they look just like the OG’s. 😉
What a cool desert species! May have to do some research on them now!
They are fantastic! The whole genus is super cool and underrated! There are a few species that are a bit bigger with the same care id like to look into!
So cute!
Thank you 🦎!!!
What's up Dayyan! I always like your enclosure building videos.
Hey! Thanks a million! I appreciate it! 🙏🏼
I have mourning geckos, and they love fruit flies and a gargoyle gecko who loves crickets and, as an occasional treat, wax worms (wax moths) 😂
Those are so cute i love geckos
Thanks! Me too!
if my tail could wave like that id never rest
How to attract the ladies 101 😎💃🏻
that tail waving is so cool
Indeed!
It seems that my Bearded Dragon loves roaches and silkworm pupae
Tasty! Thank you for watching!
Great video
Thanks so much Chantal!
I have a 3.4 group of Stenodactylus petrii. They are very similar. So much fun. These are on my list to acquire one day.
Lucky you! I want those next!
@Reptiliatus I'm hoping to have eggs this year. Maybe we can do a swap or something if you breed yours.
LETS GOOOO ITS BEEN A MIN!
Thanks for watching!
One of the juveniles looks like their headstamp is חי, which is Hebrew for "life". I've been cracking up about it, what adorable little dudes.
Shalom! How cool!
Why your Tokay gecko is so savage eating worms? 😳😂😂😂😂😂 It kills me every time I see him/her eating 😂
I AM DEFINITELY BUYING YOU HAVE BEEN MY CONFIRMATION🙏🏽‼️
I come from taiwan a small country and I have a chameleon it is pretty small. I usually feed it little cockroch they really like it.I love your environment of your gecko tank.
That’s really interesting! Thank you for sharing! I’m glad you like my terrarium, thank you!
Soooo nice 🤩
Thank you!
Super Cute geckos! As for the Question: I offered my House Snake the chance to eat a silkworm, or wiggly earthworm, and he did not even register them as possibly food. Which is pretty funny considering that in the wild he'd eat anything he could catch and swallow.
Thank you for sharing! Awesome feeders
Love those geckos! We use dubia and mealworms as our food staples here at Domestic Dinos, we raise leopard geckos, african fat tailed geckos, and western hognose snakes.
For pets we have some berber skinks, pac man frogs, ball pythons and 3 toed box turtles.
Awesome! Great choices! Raising your own feeders allow you to control/be sure about what your animals are eating too!
The Toyka gecko had no chill
Hello I would recommend the exoterra excavator clay it’s a game changer I tried it in one of my BD enclosures now I use it for all there enclosures you can use it for any reptile that loves to dig you mix it in the substrate my bearded dragons love digging a cave to sleep in specially when they start going into brumation I been researching about them they’re the next reptiles I want to get + the red eye dragon the first time I saw a video when I was researching about BD I feel in love with them hopefully I can find them in a expo here in the US there ain’t many expo where I live in the east coast New England area
came into your channel when I was researching about the red eye dragon I been watching all your videos trying to catch up
They're so cute!!! ♥
Couldn’t agree more! Would love to see babies! 😅
@@Reptiliatus Me too!!
Mine’s favorite that I can tell a difference is black worms to my over sized and aged African dwarf frog he is 6 years old and almost 3.5 inches. Big and old for his kind
That's some quality aquatic food!
I think my leopard geko is very fond of mealworms even though her main diet is crickets with a different insect every now and again.i only had her for 3 months just introduced her to Mealworms and she goes nuts for them. I've also fed her hornworms before she loves them to.she is an awesome never misses when she strikes at her meal.i love my lemon
Sounds like she has great variety thanks to you! Bravo! Thanks for sharing! 🦎👌🏼
@@Reptiliatus your welcome sorry for the late reply just realized I had this reply.
The tailing was very interesting and cute. Those are some awesome geckos!
QOTD: Silkworms - Australian Water Dragons, Veiled Chameleon and Leopard Gecko. Super worms - Ackie Monitor (and all the others) and of course they all love crickets (there's nothing like food on the run)
Indeed! Your animals eat well! Thanks for sharing!
My anole loves both cricket’s and mini cockroaches. My Leopard Gecko loves his crickets and my tarantula also loves his crickets.
Awesome! What kind of anole do you have?
They look like a lot of fun. We have 2 Leo's. My 85 yr old Mom's Leo is a giant named Alice. She likes superworms. Mine is a physically challenged Leo named Fiest. She likes 5 week old Crickets. I have been loving the Madagascar videos from Adam, Dāv and you. Need to go check out the other 2 fellow travelers channel's.
Lovely! Thank you so much for your support! I’m really touched you like the expedition videos and your viewership means a lot!
I haven't had an insect eating reptile in a wile but i had a trio of jacky jacky dragons and their favourite feeders were isopods and black soldier flys.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
One of them looks to have a little smiley on its head :)
Haha true! 🦎
that first worm was wacked very aggressively
lol yea they are hilarious sometimes! Thanks for watching!
What a cool vid! Keep up the good work my man👍🏻 quick question:
My tokays first egg just hatched. Do you recommend putting the babies into a new enclosure and then later putting them all back together? Or should they just stay with their mom and dad?😁
Thank you very much!
Congratulations! Honestly that’s up to you but for me personally, I always keep them with the parents. They are AMAZING parents. That baby is totally safe with them and will not be mistaken for food! Baby tokays are also pretty much big enough to take 3/4-1 inch crickets anyways so they will settle in and start hunting when ready!
Watching the little guys wave their tails makes me wish we could read their minds so badly 😭 just little geckos in a big world 🥺
They are so cute haha
Awesome geckos and upgrade! QOTD: it all depends for my group. They all have their preferences. Leopard gecko (turned 21 in Feb!!) & Green Keeled Lizard like freshly molted dubias and crickets. 3 Viper Geckos: small crickets, 2 KSB: rodents lol. You should look into Viper Geckos too! They are communal, social little hunters :)
Thanks for sharing! Lots of variety there!
I bought 3 short fingered geckos 6 months ago they are so funny and so cute I have them all in a 40 gallon and they are so playful and cute
Wonderful! Yes, they truly are the best! Wow, that's a lot of space for 3 of them!
@@Reptiliatus I like to spoil my children. Hope to meet u at animal con this year
Wow 😲
🦎✨
I have a young baby Girdled Lizard who loves eating butterworms and small hornworms. She'll grab them, take them back to her hide, and eat them there.
Wow very cool! Thanks for sharing!
YESSS WE NEEDED TO GET MORE!!! Also can you PLEASE get the Underwoodiesaurus Milli?
Hahaha you didn't give up yet! Impressive!
@@Reptiliatus I know... I will keep asking
My veilds LOVE hornworms and dubias!
(I breed them so, I have a handful - Mostly babies lol)
They also love silkworms, but they're hard to find around here.
My beardie brothers love hornworms as well (but they love just about anything).
That’s so cool! Good for you! I’m actually going to try and breed hornworms soon too! We’ll see how it goes!
@@Reptiliatus I breed my own dubias and mealworms (but I don't feed the mealies to my reptiles lol They're for the birds outside. I got it as a colony for free when I bought an enclosure on FB).
It would be neat to see a video about that if you can succeed, it might be interesting to see!
Awesome video. What size of enclosure is that exo terra?
Thank you! It’s actually a 12x12x12!
Anymore of that superb Madagascar content in the works?
Thank you so much! Watch this whole video through and that question will be answered in detail! I'm so glad you are enjoying the Madagascar expedition series!
They are so cute and teeny, are they at adult size? I love gecko's, I'd love some tiny ones. The enclosure is amazing, well done ❤
Yes! These are adult size! Really fun tiny geckos! Thank you very much 🙏🏼!
Cute.
Hello great video information nice Dayyan
Many thanks! Appreciate you watching/commenting! Means so much!
Hey! I realize this is an old post, but I’m building up towards getting these geckos. Do you have a night routine? If so I would love to know because I get so nervous at night for them wondering if the enclosure is not the right temperature or how moist it needs to be.
My Leo, Calcifer, LOVES locusts. I raise and feed mostly Dubias, Meal and super worms as well as some beetle grubs for a treat. But when I have locusts Calcifer refuses to eat other foods while he can still see the locusts in their tub. Only one other food beats them - Ghost mantises. A super rare treat I only give when one of my mantises is coming to the end of their life. I make sure the raptorials are removed first but good greife does he go crazy for them! They don't even need to move (which is good as they are often at that last stage of life) he only has to smell them. However I once tried him on a spiny flower, nope, he wanted nothing to do with that.
I would never consider a mantis as a feeder animal, but if its the option of seeing them slowly fade at the bottom of the viv after losing the ability to climb, or giving them a quick end and also insureing they don't go to waste, it will always be the feeding.
I wish we could have/use locusts in Canada! So envious! My cousins in Austria fed their bearded dragon them and man I was so envious! They aren’t legal to use in Canada! Wow, that’s quite the treat! One of my favourite mantis species too! 😢😉. All jokes aside, a fair way to “recycle them” and offer your animal enrichment I suppose! We all have some level of selective empathy 😅. Thanks for sharing!
@@Reptiliatus One of my favourite mantis too! I know they are a super easy and common species in the hobby but they are just a lovely size and the females have just so many colour variations! I am however hoping to get some Dragon mantises next year, Stenophylla cornigera, as we have a really good breeding program over in the UK and they are finally reaching a good price.
I have a tarantula and 4 crested geckos they all love super worms
Awesome! My spiders loooove superworms too!
How do you like these geckos? I just got another species of parthenogenic mourning geckos. I love them!! Was thinking about getting some of these next! Glad you had an awesome Madagascar trip!!
Thank are so much fun! I really enjoy them and the fact they are communal is a major added bonus too! Thanks so much for watching the Madagascar content!
@@Reptiliatus Always watch your content, but RUclips unsubscribed me. That makes me livid when they do that. It's not the first time!!
Just seen these on a herping trip yesterday! In israel , they are such cuties. Also we herped a leafnose sand snake😅
Shalom! Very cool! I always wished I could find them while I lived in Haifa! Lots of chams, tortoises, fan-footed geckos and ocellated skinks but not these!
@@Reptiliatus youve gotta come herp here sometime! We've got 41 species of snakes on this tiny piece of land! Ive only started this year but joined some herping tours here where we herped a large whip snake that was more than 8 ft long! Also, on the same trip ive mentioned weve herped a cute lil leaf nosed crowned snake :)
I think its also really intersting to see how the environment can differ greatly from how some are kept in the wild.
Ive seen some keepers on youtube recommend low humiduty for these gecks and for schneiders skinks when on the ground humidity reached 80 precent for the costal populations!
i want some of these!!!!
They are THE BEST!
Are they also called micro geckos?? They are stunning 😍 I love them
Technically there is a much smaller species of gecko recognized as micro geckos. These are usually called dune or sand geckos
You should make more videos on these little guys I got a bearded dragon and a ball python and think imma get these next
I will! Thanks for watching!
QOTD: My Texas Banded Geckos absolute favorite feeders are Black Solider Flies, the larvae she's not particularly fond of but she goes wild for the flies.
Very nice! My tokays love thé flies as enrichment!
Are you able to make these enclosures bio active?
Also, between the male and three females you could probably breed them. It would be interesting to see babies
I’m certainly hoping they will! Would be so cool! I’d also really like to be able to offer Fadi some babies back!
My leopard gecko loves his mealworms
Awesome!
I have a crestie named Hugo. He adores crickets. 🙆😁 I don't but what can you do.😁
Thanks for sharing! Sounds like you love him lots!
Someone may have said it already.. but I think the tail waving. Is the instinctive factor of "protective predator behavior".. when possibly being attacked.. they wave their tail for distraction. Due to possibly being attacked and ate.. idk just going by the fact of you being over the tank. And the other gecko being behind the other
Thanks for the suggestion! I think sometimes that can be the case however there are other species of gecko that also communicate with their tails/waving. For example, leaf tailed geckos of the genus Uroplatus. I’m leaning towards that being the case as none of that tail waiving happens anymore and only occurred the first night the 4 animals were introduced to each other.
I love to watch my stenodactylus hunting a lateralis roaches . Those roaches are very fast , but geckos are faster 😄
I wish those were legal in Canada! Must be perfect!
@@Reptiliatus those roaches once invaded my house so I understand why are they illegal 😂
NICE SWEATER! Is it thrifted?
Thanks homie! Yes it is! 👕✨
Does this background work if you mist your enclosure?
I have a leopard gecko and want to make a good background for him.
Yes! I think it actually works a bit better if you do most it here and there to prevent cracking but making it right and with the right consistency to begin with is also important!
The Tomsk being wild in the beginning is the only thing you can expect from them
lol
@@Reptiliatus tokay gecko*
Well that one was a suprising first introduction....... xD
Haha how so? 😅
@@Reptiliatus Never really seeen a tokaygecko eat and just seeing it slam the larva against the branch was kinda suprising xD
@@sweetpanda4915 it always is 😰
I have the same geckos
Sweet! They aren’t that common these days! Lucky you!
My feeders are basic mice ( dead) because I keep arborealvipers ( venomous ) species
Very cool! 🐍 thanks for sharing!
Too cut the wood use an Iron saw.. The teeth are not as big so it cuts easly. I use it all the time. It's also good to cut bambo and plastic.
Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately most of my tools are in my garden shed which is basically blocked off my snow lol. Thankfully this wood worked out intact!
@@Reptiliatus Lovely weather out there 😂 but now you know for some other time.