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#1805581
ExoSkelet0n
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Help Anyone? 
Can anyone give me a site where i can get marbled geckos or other types of geckos please, i am trying to get some for a tank that i have setup already and i do not wanna deal threw the local petstore due to the facts its a horrible petstore and every animal i have gotten from that specific petstore has had some type of disease or untreatable defect that has caused them to die, can anyone suggest some sites where i can order some online? thanks.
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07/22/08 08:34pm
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#1805726
KrazyKelli
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Message To: ExoSkelet0n In reference to Message Id: 1805581
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You should be careful. I fear when you say ’other types of geckos’ and ’ i am trying to get some for a tank that i have setup already’ that you’re just going to start blindly getting them without any study on how they would actually work together in a tank, how their different care requirements are, etc. Buying off random websites serves to be difficult as you could end up with any gender in the end, and males will kill each other. Big ones will also kill small ones. Geckos can also stress to death if you cram too many in a tank too small. Not bleaching out your tank and replacing everything else if you already lost reptiles will result in new ones catching what killed the old ones and killing them as well.
The problem with your pet store might not be a simple one store deal. Cheap geckos such as marbled geckos are almost always wildcaught or farm bred and therefore 90% of them will have diseases, parasites, or some random illness - which is added upon by all the stress they receive while crammed together in a small tank before and/or after purchase. Many geckos are wildcaught, because it’s simply cheaper to do so. But there are crested geckos, gargoyle geckos, leopard geckos, AFTs, and a few choice others that are very popular in the market, and almost always captive bred.
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07/22/08 10:51pm
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#1805776
ExoSkelet0n
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Message To: KrazyKelli In reference to Message Id: 1805726
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MArble geckos is what i am looking for mainly and where i am those type of geckos are not to be found, only the fat tailed geckos .. my tank is setup for a marble gecko and i been searching sites but everywhere i look they are sold out, its why i thought i would ask on here, i never purchase a pet and walk into it blindly, i have read the caresheets on here and the web ... asked a few friends who have them for good tips and advice .. all i need to do is find one now ...
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07/22/08 11:38pm
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#1805790
KrazyKelli
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Message To: ExoSkelet0n In reference to Message Id: 1805776
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Okay, but you’re saying you lost the last few to disease or something. Did you completely remove everything from the tank, bleach it over twice, and replace it with new dirt and, depending on the disease, new accessories?
You’re going to be disappointed with the parasites thing. When getting a marbled gecko, it’s best to temporarily house it in a smaller tank with papertowel and such while you take it to the vet, get it checked out, and deworm it. After the deworming process is done (which requires cleaning the tank and changing out the papertowel for a select period of time), and the lizard is clean of it, it can be introduced to the full dirt on accessory tank. During this time, outside of giving dewormers and cleaning out the tank, you should leave the lizard completely alone as marbled geckos are a species that stress considerably easy. If you have other lizards, you should quarentine the new lizard a room away from them for 90+ days + vet visit to rule out diseases like Crypto.
Your best bet is to go to a reptile expo and look.
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07/22/08 11:59pm
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#1806084
ExoSkelet0n
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Message To: KrazyKelli In reference to Message Id: 1805790
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All my tanks are bleached with a 5% solution and then washed out and let sit to air out for a hour, as for quarentine, all my pets that come threw here are quarentined for usually 60 days in the computer room before moved into the room with the rest of my reptiles. I have only had pets die from that one store, i have bought reptiles from petsmart and etc and they are still living to this day as healthy as can be, and when my ball pythons moved up from the 20 gallon long tanks they were in i bleached them out as well and decided i would use those for gecko tanks and started getting all the materials out that i already had from a previous attempt with a fat tailed gecko that was at that one petstore and whatnot and started arranging a tank, i changed a few things like adding bed-a-beast as the substrate and i have custom made basking areas for them to sit on and the same goes for hides and watering. Everything is setup and ready to go for him to be added in as a member of my reptile family. I have another tank with almost all the same stuff in it just newspaper as a substrate, one basking area, 3 hides and one watering dish in it to quarentine him in when i first get him, like i said i am not walking into this blindly ... and i know the "rule of touch" leave the gecko alone for its first week or two then slowly get him used to your hand and smell and then make small contact before you just pick him or her up and start handling her .. i just need to find a good healthy marbled gecko that is not going to die because someone else that previous cared for them was not doing a ol so good of a job. And as for expos .. i never really find them around me =[
they are almost always 3 to 5 states away and out of driving range ..
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07/23/08 12:03pm
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#1806137
KrazyKelli
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Message To: ExoSkelet0n In reference to Message Id: 1806084
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It’s good that you know how to bleach, quarentine, and set up the tank. Many owners who come asking for animals that have lost past ones do not and I will go out of my way to ensure they know what they’re getting into. But there is no handling at all for marbled geckos. They are a display species and not to be handled with exception to vet trips, tank cleaning, and deworming/forcefeeding. They have delicate skin and can stress to death from being handled. Not all gecko species will get use to your hands and, in fact, many wont. Forcing your hands on a species that is display only can kill it in one way or another.. If you have a marbled gecko and it doesn’t flip out, bite, and move away from you when you enter the tank, something is seriously wrong with it. I bought up not bothering it for the first few weeks because it will be extra stressed when first transfered. The only way it would calm down is if you didn’t constantly look at the tank for all hours of the day and if you taped up three sides to promote seclusion.
So yeah. You should take into consideration that this future marbled gecko you get should be left alone at all times. No forced handling for it at all. It’s a wild species and meant to stay that way.
Since you said you have a working Petsmart near your location, why don’t you ask them to special order one?
Expos are in Ohio, Penn, KY, and many states right next to your state. Fact, I’m sure there is one that happens every year to twice yearly in WV.
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07/23/08 01:04pm
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#1807341
ExoSkelet0n
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Message To: KrazyKelli In reference to Message Id: 1806137
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I have never heard of any expos here at all, and if they are i do not know how i could have missed them. I live in the capital of WV so most of all events are held here. Who knows really .. but as for petsmart special ordering me a gecko, i never really thought of that, thanks for the idea.
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07/24/08 01:06pm
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