My little escape artist

I think my female Crested Gecko, Dagoji, was stricken with a little bit of wanderlust before laying her last clutch:


The door to her cage is slightly bent and missing a latch, so that the top half latches and the bottom half is secured somewhat loosely with velcro. Well, in her wanderlustful streak, I think she learned to wedge the door open near the velcro. The first night she escaped, I tore the room apart looking for her, and found her in my roommate's closet perched on a red bucket. I figured I must not have secured the door tightly. The second night she escaped, I again freaked out and tore the room apart, but found her relatively quickly at the base of my caging shelves. I knew that time that I had closed the door tightly, but still found it wedged open at the base by the velcro. Not wanting any more escapes and risk loosing my best female, I taped down the bottom corner of the door with additional duct tape. Well, the tape wears out after just a couple door openings, and she escaped a third time. I found her in my roommate's closet on the red bucket again. This time I really learned my lesson. She's not getting out again:


Here's the little escape artist:

Crested Geckos Mating (Graphic!)

A while back in February, when I first put my Crested Geckos together for mating, I decided to be a gecko-porn director. I added some branches to my photo setup and put them together on it. Shameless as they are, they went right at it while I took photos and video.









Also some video:

My first Crested Gecko eggs

I was delighted to find my first clutch of Crested Gecko (Rhacodactylus ciliatus) eggs, after waiting for nearly 2 months for my two pairs to get going. These are from Atticora x Wren. Likely not fertile, but I'll incubate them until they prove me wrong.


Wren and Atticora wasted no time getting in on:


Here's one of my males, Jiminy (not the sire of the above eggs) being all fired up today: