The perfect crestie

Dramatic drum roll...

So Schlyne goes to Lee Watson's swap to find some thermostats....


Schlyne looks around, spots a beautiful white and black garygole gecko
(but alas, slightly too old).

Schlyne walks around and spots the perfect gecko cage.
(but alas, no gecko).

Schlyne walks around sees some really nice "just adult" crestied geckos
(but alas, too much).


Schlyne walks around..and finds the perfect crested gecko for just the right price.

Vendor tells story about crestie coming in for trade. Vendor takes crestie out to show Schlyne. Gecko runs up Schlyne's arm and seems content on blue fleece. Vendor helps get gecko off of Schlyne. Gecko makes dramatic leap on to Schlyne..pauses, and then runs back up to be content on blue fleece. Gecko is returned to container..

Schlyne leaves...and walks around...and picks up more frozen mice for snakes.

Schlyne leaves show to make quick run to ATM for money. Schlyne comes back to show.

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Schlyne goes home with two plants, crickets, waxworms, gecko cage, cricket supplements, water dish, perfect crested gecko, and no thermostats.

Damn addicting herps. They didn't have any theromstats.

Crestie is a juvie, but definately over 2 months old, not quite six, but is suspected to be a male. (not quite tellable yet). Crestie is an orange tiger.

lol nice story :)

Congrats on the new addition, he seems to like you (runnin up your sleeve and stuff) good luck with em :D

For the curious and for future reference, the plants are a bird's nest fern (non toxic, I just checked) and a dwarf Sansevieria. (One of the Sansevieria's speicies is a mother in law's tongue, which looks like what I bought, but it isn't). We'll see how big these plants acutally get. The Sansevieria is also non toxic.

Unfournately, the plant seller didn't have any pothos or ficus. And he knew I was buying plants for a crestie, so we dicussed different plants that would be good.

Congrats on the new crested! What a way to start off your 'relationship' - he/she was saying "Take me Home". Hope he wasn't disappointed that he doesn't get blue fleece in his cage!

Awesome! I'd love to see pics!

Well, I just took some of "him" in the cage, but I dunno how well they will turn out. I will attempt to get more on the new roll of film and get em developed.

hurray for cresties! i hope your pics turn out so we can all see him!

Congrats on the new guy! He knew what he wanted and didn't care if you had to get out more money than you'd planned to spend. :) I hope your pics come out well, too.

Unforunately, this is the only picture of Dreki that turned out semi decent.
https://ball-pythons.net/modules/cop...rmal_Drek1.jpg


It's really fuzzy, and it's a shame none of the tiger striping photos turned out.

This was taken about mid afternoon, I think.

But you can still tell how cute he is!

Is that his high or low coloration? What does he look like otherwise? It is a bit fuzzy, but like TG said, still clear enough to see he's a cute lil booger!

*Squints at fuzzy photo.*

I think that's about mid between. (unsure, I'm not sure of the time when I took that photo).

He looks like an absolutely beatitful tan (I'd consider it a buckskin color) tiger at low coloration. He turns into a dark orange at night, and he has a three or four dalmation spots that are very dark at night.

My buckskin/orange flame baby has gotten where her buckskin area is really dark at night with a lot of contrast from the flame. It will be interesting to see what this guy does coloring-wise. Is his orange more red or yellow?

His orange is more red at night, but not enough to make it a significant orange red. His tiger striping is harder to see at night, but it stands out beautifully during the day.

Buckskin tiger by day, orange dalmation by night. ;)

I take that back Marla, I think he's more of a yellow orange. He just showed me his high color today.

Dreki is definately a Brindle male, since he has the tiger pattern on his head and underneath.

I hope you can get some better pics next time around so we can see his colors. :)