Care Sheets

Care Sheets

These Care Sheets are useful guides with general information on how to care for specific species of geckos.  The information contained here has been compiled and revised from various reference sources as well as our first hand experience caring for and keeping these species for a number of years. If you have [...]

Leopard Geckos

Leopard Gecko (Eublepharis macularius)

Native Range: Most of the Leopard Geckos in captivity are captive-bred from stock collected in Pakistan and adjacent parts of India in the 1980s.  In the wild they inhabit dry areas of desert and scrub-land, preferring rocky areas which provide suitable cover.  They spend daytime underground, where conditions are cooler [...]

African Fat-Tail Gecko

Fat-Tailed Geckos (Hemitheconyx caudicinctus)

Native Range: African Fat-tails in captivity are captive-bred from stock collected in Western Africa.  In the wild they inhabit dry savannah, moist savannah and semiarid scrub-land areas.  They spend daytime underground, where conditions are cooler and moist, emerging at night to hunt. Although imports are still common, captive breeding projects [...]

Cave Geckos

Cave Gecko Goniurosaurus Species

Native Range: The range of the  Goniurosaurus genus extends from Vietnam, the southern border of China adjacent to Vietnam, the islands of  Cat Ba, Hainan, Ishigaki and Ryukyu which include Okinawa and Tokuno. The Goniurosaurus genus to date (2010) includes 12 species. In the wild their habitats range [...]

Malaysian Cat Geckos

Malaysian Cat Gecko (Aeluroscalabotes felinus)

Native Range: The Malaysian Cat Gecko, Aeluroscalabotes felinus  inhabits the cool montane forests of southern Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore they have also been found on the island of Borneo, in Sarawak, Sabah as well as Vietnam. There is a  sub-species of  cat gecko referred to as  A. f. multituberculatus. [...]