Cool Green Geckos?

[Grogshla]

Hey there. My friend showed me a picture of a green gecko he saw on the net which was lovely. I know it would have been an exotic and have found a few pictures on the internet. Are there any common green geckos in the overseas reptile market? Where would they come from? I wish we had some cool species like this in Australia even though we are not allowed. I would love to live in America and have Leopard Geckos.

 

[richoman_3]

day gecko

 

[Grogshla]

thanks for helping me out there Richoman.
They are so stunning

 

[GeckoJosh]

LOL, our geckos are the envy of the world, I take just about any of our geckos over a leopard

 

[Grogshla]

Yeah our Aussie geckos are amazing also. They are beautiful

 

[phoebe]

We have a couple of day geckos at work..they look nice but they are crazy fast runners. Cleaning their enclosures are always a mission 'cause you have to keep your eye on them all the time. I would rather deal with an angry python then a day gecko!

 

[dihsmaj]

We have a couple of day geckos at work..they look nice but they are crazy fast runners. Cleaning their enclosures are always a mission 'cause you have to keep your eye on them all the time. I would rather deal with an angry python then a day gecko!

Day geckos are exotics, thus illegal... so your work is illegally keeping day geckos?

Edit: oh, just checked your 'about me' and you work at the ARP...

 

[blakehose]

My guess would be that Phoebe works at a zoo or something of the sort....thus making it legal on permit!
Edit: Well there you go.

 

[snakeluvver]

Now usually I wish we could have exotics but our geckos are probably the best in the world. We may not have the best pythons or colubrids, but we have the best geckos BY FAR.
I mean leopard geckos are cool, but who can resist a levis or a wheeleri

 

[Tassie97]

like this?

 

[dihsmaj]

wheeleri

Envy of Victoria...

 

[snakeluvver]

Compare that crappy green puke gecko to THIS

Envy of Victoria...

And im getting one

 

[dihsmaj]

who says we dont have the best pythons? just because ours havent been bred to the same extent and colours doesnt mean exotics are better, just that our line breeding and so on are years behind the oversea's market.

i had a chat with brian from bhb reptiles and snakebytes tv last year when he was over hear and he was blown away, he told me he was drooling the entire time and cant believe how awesome our snakes are and wishes he could keep more aussie species.

all out animals are envied all over the world for a lot of reasons, i mean where else can you find a bright green python in the wild other than new guinea. aussie snakes are so well adapted to so many different things and astound me with how they are.
file snakes and so on have amazing adaptations to help them in the way they feed and live.

good luck with all your animals all...

file snakes aren't pythons, but I love 'em. saw some a few days ago in the flesh at the zoo... amazing.

 

[snakeluvver]

I just like all the classic coloured pythons eg. ball pythons, retics, burms.
But I still love our natives, we certainly have some stunners.

file snakes aren't pythons, but I love 'em. saw some a few days ago in the flesh at the zoo... amazing.

Seen them swim.... AWESOME

 

[MathewB]

I'd love to have Tokays! They are one of my favorites

 

[dihsmaj]

i didnt call them pythons but was saying how adapted they are. a species i would love to keep.

I'm already doing research.

 

[dihsmaj]

yea ive looked into it. biggest prob people have is they try handle them and stuff. only way to keep them successfully is give them food and leave them alone. they stress to easily otherwise and they die. there was one for sale a few weeks back though..

Treat 'em like predatory fish.

 

[m000x]

I'd love to have Tokays! They are one of my favorites

until they bite you or keep you up for the 3rd day in a row because they are constantly croaking at night... you will get over it

could have also been Naultinus elegans, very sexy gecko from NZ... but I doubt it. =)

 

[K3nny]

used to have wild tokays back home, damn those things were noisy (and bitey!!)
and yea, i dare ya to stick your fingers into this
[video=youtube;-iJ5hMnL5rQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iJ5hMnL5rQ[/video]


i personally wouldn't mind a caledonian giant gecko myself, but prickly knobtails just look absolutely wicked compared to any other gecko species i've seen, period
used to keep leopard gecks, the only thing i found amusing was that they'd relieve themselves at one spot and that spot only, cleaning was darn easy

 

[PilbaraPythons]

As much as I like Australian gecko's, the NZ green gecko's are my favourites. They are fully diurnal, look absolutly amazing, easy to keep, get dog tame, have live young. Still realatively rare in collections outside of NZ though. They are one exotic that if offered to me illegally or otherwise, I would not be able to help myself and thats exactly what I would tell the judge while pleading for mercy.