I GOT MORE MINI GECKOS! HOW TO UPGRADE A DESERT TERRARIUM!

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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[Reptiliatus]

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!

[mrsb]

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 😂

[Pegzie-Creation]

6:56 I totally thought she saw his tail as a worm and was about to attack. Their tail-wagging is ADORABLE!!!!

[ILCorvo]

That enclosure is beautiful. It's nice to see someone taking the time to ensure a proper environment for the animals in their care.

[kaitlyncamp]

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 ✨

[WallSpider]

Damn i was not ready for the slaps the 🦎 gave to the 🐛. Hulk smash!

[videosbythemadanimalhouse]

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🤣

[daffysreptiles]

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!

[paleoscales]

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.

[thechickenwizard]

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.

[leafystreet]

if my tail could wave like that id never rest

[danischulze]

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! 💯👏👏🫶👍😀🤗💯

[badlandsreptiles]

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!🔥

[staceyroberts]

First time I’ve heard of these!! Pretty cool little reptiles 👍🏼 love how they wiggle their tails around!

[DarthAlso]

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.

[TheBlubunni]

They are adorable little geckos 😍🥰
Love their enclosure.
Thank you for sharing. Take care.

[debbiedee]

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.

[chrisglasoe]

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.

[PhotoJeffK]

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.

[loriw]

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! 🦎❤️🦎