Pics of my Red Baby - Page 2

little_dragon_ · 10-28-05, 03:21 PM

I really find this hard to believe but maybe there is giant cresteds afterall like leopard geckos.

HerpAddict · 10-28-05, 07:14 PM

Believe it or not, it's what it is! Perhaps it's something in the crickets, I don't know. These are my first 3 crested hatchlings ever, so I still see it as being 'normal' because I haven't had the experience of raising any from hatching that weren't this size. I'm almost certain that I'll be keeping Monte (who ever sells their first hatchling?!), and perhaps I will be able to proove it out, depening on Monte's sex. The other two will be sold at some point, probably when they are sexable.

Cheers!

little_dragon_ · 10-29-05, 10:04 AM

It sounds likea marvel to the crested world. Maybe you can breed out the trait. Goodluck!

danyarp · 11-11-05, 08:16 AM

Wow what awesome colors! I'm trying to find a red gecko! I'm curious what is this smoothie that your referring to?

HerpAddict · 11-11-05, 12:03 PM

Hilde has posted one somewhere on here that is usually a winner with cresteds. Try searching for smoothie, or recipe, and you should find it.

This guy/gal has slowed growing a bit...he's 4 monthes and a week old, and weighs 21.5g. Monte's colors are nice, and I'm hoping that she (crosses fingers) will pass them on to make more red babies!

HerpAddict · 11-12-05, 09:12 PM

I did a complete clean of cages today, and decided to get a couple pictures while I was disturbing everyone.

I was hoping that both Monte and Trogdor (Monte's dad) would be fired up together, but alas, only Trogdor was fully fired, Monte was not quite there.

I seem to have a hard time capturing the reds in these guys. If I use the flash, then it washes them out, if I don't, then I either get blurry pics because the shutter speed has to be so slow, or you can't see them because it's too dark. Natural light is the best, but it was too cold out to go outside with them today!

It sure was a challenge to get these guys to sit still for long, and in the same vicinity, but eventually Monte settled on Trogdor's head!

This next one isn't the greates pic, but it gives a side by side for reference. Trogdor weighs about 38g, and Monte was 21.5g last I checked.

Here is one that sort of shows off the red these guys has, unfortunately it's really blurry, and my battery died before I could get a better one.

Here's a last one to show the bicolor that I really like. It looked next to black to me in person, but the camera doesn't pic it up.

Lastly, here's one of the siblings to Monte that's a month younger and is just starting to show the red, about 3.25 months right now. This one weighed 15.5g at photo time a couple days ago. My guess is that it will be a 'he', but I've been wrong before. He will probably go up for sale in a while, once I'm positive on the sex. The little fella will be sold no matter what sex, but I thought I would just help out the buyer by making sure of the sex before sale. With few babies around, I can afford the space and crickets!

I hope you enjoy, just thought I would share, as there hasn't been much activity on this board as of late!

Cheers!

danyarp · 11-12-05, 10:23 PM

Ahh the picture of Monte and Trogdor head, is absolutely cute. One day I will get a red guy! Hopefully sooner rather than later!

Meltos · 11-13-05, 11:01 AM

Wow, Very Nice. At My college they have a Crested Gecko and 3 leopard Geckos. I have handled the leopards but not tht crested, is there a particuler way of catching them? Coz they are incredibly fast! As im sure you would no. Or is ther eno chance of me catchign her...

HerpAddict · 11-13-05, 01:03 PM

To catch the fast ones, you have to be calm, and careful. If you try to just grab at them, then there is a good chance you will end up with just a tail if that's all you catch. I can't really think of how to describe how I catch them, perhaps like catching a frog...Put one hand in front of them, and the other overtop, and then when they run, they generally run onto you.

The only thing to think about is if she's running because she's being handled too much, or not given enough alone time. Unless you have a more docile crested, or one that has grown up being handled, then they generally don't take well to a lot of handling. Some never like it.

If she eats babyfood, then you could try to see if it will calm her down to offer her some off of a spoon while she's in her cage to get her used to your scent and used to you being around.

I don't know what else to say. Learning how to catch and handled them is just that, a learning experience.