Ptychozoon kuhli - Flying Gecko
Hello from China.
These guys don't seem to be very popular with pet keepers, but they're fascinating display animals. Mine is quite active and prefers to be out in the open most of the time. It's colour change is often startling.
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Thanks for the welcome.
I was told he/she was captive born but the seller didn't know it's age, so I can't be absolutely sure. I did purchase a baby blue tongue skink from this seller before and I have been completely satisfied with that little guy so I took a 'flyer' on this one. What I do know is that he was clean when I got him. No mites or parasites, so I'm hopeful.
Now I've only had this guy for a few months and there's not a huge amount of care info online, so if anyone has experience with these guys I'd appreciate any tips you could give me. He's eating and pooping so I hope I'm caring for him appropriately.
He was eating crickets before but I hate crickets so I've moved him over to dubia roaches and he eats them, but I don't think they're satisfying his need to hunt so I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get him some crickets now and then.
In a past life in Canada, I kept snakes and would love to do so again, but here in China it's not something many people do, (at least not as pets) so sourcing them has been tough. I have my feelers out though.
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He likes to hang out above the insects, then scrambles down, grabs one and takes off. Munch and repeat.
I thought these guys were supposed to be completely nocturnal but he is extremely active early evenings. When I approach his vivarium, he always stays completely still, never runs and hides, just totally relies on his camouflage. Sometimes I need to nudge him away from the doors and then he'll take off as he's touched.
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Hahaha that's so true. He looks unbelievably comfortable here.
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He also finally has a name - Waldo
I kept thinking of The Flying Wallendas because, flying gecko duh. But also when I need to open his enclosure I want to find him first, and it's looking at branches and cork that all looks the same.
Where's Wally or the North American version... Where's Waldo.
I'm really bad at giving names. A lifetime ago when I kept snakes, used to just say 'Buddy' when I was talking to any of them (that's not strange is it?) and just using descriptive names like the boa, the mexican black, the carpet to talk to others about them. Well, I did usually call the carpet python '[ ]'.
So, now I just need to come up with some names for my crested gecko and my blue tongue skink.