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Hey everyone,
My friend brought me a lizard a little over a week ago. He/She's still alive, but I don't know if it's eating or not. I've been misting the cage, and he has some moss as his substrate. It is a house gecko that she found crawling on the floor of her work place. Apparently the work place she is at bought some house geckos to eat some brown recluse spiders. Didn't know that till just this week. Any who, I've read on some sites that say the house gecko doesn't need heating like a regular gecko, then others say it does. He seems to be doing just fine since my room temp usually stays at about 80 anyways. Also not sure what to do about lighting for it, or if it needs it. I'm beginning to wonder if I should just let it loose in the backyard and hope for the best that it will be able to take care of itself. I've been trying to feed it flightless fruit flies, but again not sure if it's actually eating it or not. It's a VERY VERY VERY tiny thing, think it's still a baby. It's very fast as well. My friend named it Godzilla. So what's everyone else's opinion? Let it loose and hope it lives? Or keep on trying to feed it and hope for the best? It's so tiny, I have no clue what to use as a water dish for it, I don't want it to drown, that's why I mist the tank every few hours.
My friend brought me a lizard a little over a week ago. He/She's still alive, but I don't know if it's eating or not. I've been misting the cage, and he has some moss as his substrate. It is a house gecko that she found crawling on the floor of her work place. Apparently the work place she is at bought some house geckos to eat some brown recluse spiders. Didn't know that till just this week. Any who, I've read on some sites that say the house gecko doesn't need heating like a regular gecko, then others say it does. He seems to be doing just fine since my room temp usually stays at about 80 anyways. Also not sure what to do about lighting for it, or if it needs it. I'm beginning to wonder if I should just let it loose in the backyard and hope for the best that it will be able to take care of itself. I've been trying to feed it flightless fruit flies, but again not sure if it's actually eating it or not. It's a VERY VERY VERY tiny thing, think it's still a baby. It's very fast as well. My friend named it Godzilla. So what's everyone else's opinion? Let it loose and hope it lives? Or keep on trying to feed it and hope for the best? It's so tiny, I have no clue what to use as a water dish for it, I don't want it to drown, that's why I mist the tank every few hours.