Why they're called "house" geckos...

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Well, I thought that my house gecko had been dead for a month. A blessing, because I couldn't open the lid because of how skittish it was. Well, I was walking through the kitchen when I freeze next to my empty 5g. Guess who was sitting right in front of me? She didn't even notice the net until I grabbed her through it. Now she's in a 10g, quite skinny (almost 5" long and a bit more than 1/2" wide), but she made it. The first bug in the house I've seen since winter was a black fly this afternoon, which was soon resting in the stomach of one of my female bettas. Yet this little gal had survived all this time in my house.

Despite how centimental I am about her, I'm going to be bringing her to my LPS so they can find her a home. She was only 9.99$, and she was more hassle than her worth. But still, it goes to show why they're called house geckos. Note that in most places of the downstairs, at night it could be 15 degrees celsius at night. Now thats what I call bulletproof :D
 
i had a tokay gecko that was gone for two years and ended up in someones apartment down the street...they called the cops because they got scared of its calls in the middle of the night LOL.

luckily someone i know, knew the people and i was able to get him back.
 
thats exactly why your house was bug-free... the gecko had it under control. ;)

the cold probably helped more than anything, as well, slowing down the metabolism..

what would slow be for a gecko? turbo overdrive?
 
Glad you found her. I use to raise house geckos. Sometimes they'd escape and I'd find them months later in pretty fair shape. Dehydration would be their biggest concern.
 
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