Great Sky Geckos

03/01/2023

Another quality Strength In Leos Podcast created by Evan from Decked Out Geckos. Really fascinating topics are discussed in the last hour of this podcast pertaining to leopard gecko genetics. Keep em coming Evan.

https://youtu.be/pxsIO8oYxwY

Dr. Travis Wyman is a geneticist and microbiologist who is joining us on the podcast today to teach us about everything genetics. Dr. Wyman is an avid keeper...

28/12/2022

These are my first Hardwickii.

I couldn't be more excited to start working with these. Thanks to Joe at Wildcard Geckos for sending these over to us

We also have some other Eublepharis species coming in the following weeks.

23/12/2022

Good video on why many of us may not have been providing the best care over the years.

I have made a point to provide larger tubs for each of my geckos as well as a humid hide for all the geckos (not just laying females). They all take a liking to their humid hide and I would say they spend more than 75% of their time in their humid hides year round.

All we can do as breeders and keepers is provide these animals with options and micro- climates inside their enclosures. Give them the option to be:

1. Warm and dry
2. Room temp and dry
3. Warm and humid
4. Room temp and humid.

I believe this to be best provided in the 28-32 qt tubs. I am now solely using the 15qt tubs as grow-out tubs for geckos I am raising up as future breeders or that are waiting to be sold. Even in the 15qt, I am now providing humid hides.

Let me know your thoughts. I think it is fascinating to see how easily adaptable these little guys are!

I'm Ricky Johnson, this is a discussion piece on the wild ecology of Leopard Geckos, and the ways we could broaden and improve our captive care of them with ...

11/12/2022

Hello Leo Community!

Hope everyone is still around. I haven't posted in over 4 years.

We have built our long term home and designed part of the basement with the Geckos in mind! We have moved 4 times since I last posted. We purchased our 1st home in 2018 and sold it in 2021. We then had to rent a house in that same neighborhood as we waited for our "forever home" to be built. This was not a fun process but we now have separate areas for our family, our 2 pups, and the geckos.

We are making progress in the gecko room! We had our HVAC guy set up a stand alone unit that just controls the gecko room temp and ventilation. I also had our electrician run wiring and EMT conduit in the middle of the walls for all of the rack systems. Since then, we have been spending the weekends putting racks together and setting up new breeding stock that we recently required. Still have more to build and more racks that's haven't arrived yet.

We are starting small this upcoming season. I only have 5 females that I am planning on breeding in 2023 Our ultimate goal is to never have more than 10 female breeders in any given season. This will keep the workload down and keep the quality of care very high.

I look forward to reconnecting with you all.

New video coming soon