4 Care Tips for Crested Geckos | Pet Reptiles

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Let other people have cats and dogs! Jungle Bob is here to show you that owning a pet reptile or amphibian is not as complicated as you might think. In this video, he shares four tips about caring for a crested gecko.

A very popular lizard these days in the pet world is the crested gecko. Number of great reasons for that. Easy to keep animals is the primary one. He's an arboreal creature. He needs an enclosure about 12 inches wide, 12 inches square, but they love height; 18, 24 inches is ideal.

Heavily planted is good for them; they like to hide during the day. They're nocturnal; they come out and eat at night.

For many, moms in particula, sometimes the barrier to dad and the kids getting a pet lizard in the house, the crested gecko doesn't need insects in order to survive. It does not eat mice and meat.

What it really likes is fruity type of things, almost a nectar or something. It loves to lap up with its long tongue that's often used to clean off his eyeball when it gets dirty.

The crested gecko will therefore live on prepackaged food, which are mixed like flour and water, and you put it in a small dish and leave it at the bottom of the tank, and it's all the nutrition the animal will need.

If you add a little bit of a waterfall, running water, you really recreate his natural habitat, and these animals are very simple and happy to live in captivity.

A male and female together, they're not very long-lived, five to seven years perhaps, but they are prolific breeders. So, oftentimes a coupling of males and females and they'll breed in the tank, and you'll get babies, which is always a great treat and fun to watch.

Crested gecko is, again, coming from the New Caledonia area, South Pacific forests. Not a very hot environment. They do not need intense light bulbs like some other lizards. Bearded dragons, uromastyx need well over 100 degrees.

This animal is fine at room temperature with a little supplemental light at night just to keep them a little warmer. They do not need any kind of ultraviolet light to live. They're nocturnal, therefore they don't need all of that.

So, the crested gecko has become quickly one of the most popular reptile pets. Breeders have had a field day with these because they're so prolific in their mating habits that we're getting many different colors. Red ones, flame, harlequin, different spots. All different types of crested geckos are adding a nice variable to the market place.

Anything that can stay this small, that will hang with you like this, certainly is a pet that kids are going to love to have. It has that wow factor. It looks like it's from outer space, almost. I can say a dinosaur, more from outer space, with his eyes wide open like they are. They're wide open,of course, because he can't close them; they have no opposable eyelid.

The crested gecko makes an awesome reptile pet. Something we definitely, it's growing in popularity and I think it will be in the market for years and years to come.

[haydenjackson]

hahaha. 5 to 7 years? on average if you take care of them right they live 15 to 20 years

[gennykoala]

Never listen to HowCast when it comes to pet care

[godisdead]

They live 15-20 years and bearded dragons should definitely NOT have 100°+ enclosures they should be 80s-90s. Just because he's dressed like some sort of wildlife expert doesn't mean he is at all

[shinymetalobject]

At 1:45 the gecko is like "SUE THIS MAN HE HOLDS ME LIKE I'M DIRT"

[Sheepyhead]

That jump in the end needs a scream sound effect

[wyattb.]

anyone else see the cresty fly at the end?...lol

[theartofbenbo]

No wonder it lost its tail with how he pokes it to make it jump

[everythingnight_speedpaint]

2:35 Crested gecko "GET ME AWAY FROM THIS MAN THAT CANT TAKE CARE OF HIS PETS PROPERLY"

[dripnoodle]

did you hear him say it's fun to watch them mate

[MinecraftReptile]

I have a crested gecko and they are definetly an awsome Pet 👍👌

[heathercunanan]

2:36 Gecko: Uhh wut was that?! AAHH!!! (Mind: TOUCHING MAH TAIL ALERT! * then goes the brain alarm *)

[adelmny]

The jump at the end needs slow motion, black and white, and a song “i believe i can flyyyy!”

[donalduwanawich]

At the end of the video did the gecko Die or did it live 😂

[zigzag_gaming]

This man doesn’t know what he’s talking about 😂

[KatarzynaSadej]

VERY IMPORTANT for those who actually want a crested gecko - they can live between 15 and 18 years. You should probably correct this in the video since people will be looking at this video when considering buying a gecko and they should know what they are getting into :) 

[igotpicklesheyheyhey]

I love my crestie! I've had him for a year now & he loves his tall exo-terra terrarium. He is my baby & I spoil him ^_^. Cresties are an awesome first time reptile for ppl just starting out.

[MarenWeiers]

1:23
Howcast guy : And fun to watch.
Me :

[nananooknak]

that's a flying squirrel you got right there!

[acqure]

his fingers are red for how hard he is putting pressure on them are they still alive!?

[melissagranell]

the gecko went flying at the end what the heck was with that😹 also they can live up to 15 years in good health and even older