He/she is kinda cute ngl
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Super cute! Everyone talking about the poops though lol.
That dude doesn’t skip tail day
The geckos are my favorite, but their massive shits streaking down the wall from a story up so you can’t reach it is….trying.
And suddenly I’m no longer sad to have never lived where geckos do
You confused “Dull” with “Interesting as Fuck”, my dear friend!
Has he offered to save you money on insurance yet?
If this was Australia, it’d be a massive spider instead.
There’s a bunch of black house spiders out on my patio rn, they eat the local bugs but are kinda spooky to look at. I named one Octavia because when you name something you reduce its power to scare you.
In the tropics in Australia, these geckos eat the spiders. My house has become a complex ecosystem where I’m just waiting for a croc to move in.
O yeah I forgot about the tropics! Good luck battling crocs out there my dude
My skinks are ~30cm long, about the same as my spiders are wide
They both eat the bad stuff. The skinks eat the venomous snakes and the spiders eat the nasty bugs
They’re bloody massive… I saw a tiny skink in the laundry the other day while cleaning up, if I’d seen this guy instead I would’ve freaked out. Before naming him Jeff and keeping him as a semi-pet of course.
Protecting your house against bugs! I’ve always wondered what the common reaction was to places where geckos can live, when they get in the house. Irritation? Resignation? I loved my pet leopard gecko, so I see myself delighted, but I could definitely be romanticizing it.
Spent some time in Costa Rica. They shit all over the place. But it’s not a big deal to clean up after them. Otherwise they’re chill. They can be loud sometimes.
They piss and drop presents in a lot of weird locations so you’ll have some brown stains coming from the wall down and other lovely bits. It’s fun in the beginning but gets annoying over time having to become a janitor for these fellas. Tend to trap them with a large box a release them outside where there’s more to eat. No mozzies or other bugs indoors so they go through whatever bits on kitchen or rubbish.
Florida man here. I still generally try to help them get outside. I mean often they get away and they’re on their own. But in this house with cats is NOT a safe place to be a tiny animal.
I do love seeing them though. I open my front door and most of the year literally five or six of the things will immediately scramble but it’s never stopped making me smile
Where I live just got geckoes a few years ago. They’re very cute, generally stay outside, and eat bugs. I’d say they spiff up the place quite nicely.
Yeah those started showing up by me a few years ago. I was worried they’d outcompete the native anoles, but I feel like I’ve just seen heaps of both the past couple years. Much more than years prior. Hard to imagine they fill a different niche, but they are pretty derpy compared to the anoles, so maybe the geckos are sponging up some of the predation pressure? Maybe food availability wasn’t what was limiting the anole population, and more predation?
When visiting mexico I thought it was the coolest thing, no one seemed to care about it being there and it was eating mosquitoes likes crazy so I think everyone likes them
similar deal in Asia - I fucking love the things!
Adorable! We dont have anything like that in wild, as its too cold here. But i have pet bearded dragon and ball python and i love them very much. Used to have leopard gecko too but she passed this summer, she was 17 years old.
Thicc boi
Big beefy boi
It’s his house now. And you can’t put him outside; it’s a house gecko. That would be like putting a salt water fish in fresh water.
He’s about to sell you car insurance.
By “kinda cute” you surely meant “adorable.”
Adorable and cute
I wasn’t objecting to the adjective, just the qualifier.
If you don’t mind me asking, whereabouts do you live that gifts you cute geckos in your bathroom? I mostly just get stinkbugs.
Cambodia, they prefer wooden house and plenty of places to hide so in my parents home there’s geckos everywhere even the bigger one 5-15cm across
Thanks for the answer!
good fren
