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    Delilah...what are you doing?? More pics of my first crestie

    Sometimes she sleeps in the strangest positions. Here is one of her doing some gecko yoga move...
    Her back feet are on a vine and her body is resting on a leaf below. Pardon the poo in this pic.




    Here she is covering her eyes with her leaf she sleeps on.



    And a few more just because she is cute.










    Also, Delilah lets me hold her, but for an older gecko she is pretty jumpy. Will she tame down more with handling? Is it normal for cresties to sleep in such odd positions? Thanks guys, let me know what you think.
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    Re: Delilah...what are you doing?? More pics of my first crestie

    I don't have any experience with Cresties but those pictures are pretty funny and super cute

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    Thanks, this is my first crested gecko so I'm not sure what normal behavior and sleeping habits are. I've read they sleep on the ground, but she is always on the leaf.
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    She's cute haha covering her eyes specially
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    Good looking little girl.

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    Hand feeding mine has helped with the tameness factor. When she was tiny I was afraid I'd break her, so I didn't handle at all (other than cage maintenance, it was similar to tarantula handling now that I think of it, haha) until she was about a year and a half old. By that time she was pretty flighty and while she didn't mind me changing out food, spraying, etc she would start flipping out any time my hands touched her.

    I started dipping my finger in her MRP and holding it in front of her face, more out of curiosity than anything. It was fun! So I started doing it every time I put food in her cage. Tiny gecko tongues remind me of cat tongues minus the roughness, and now she'll climb up on my hands on her own with no protest (and she's not as prone to the leap of faith anymore ). She's my only crestie, so I don't know if that'll work with others, but for someone who was very inexperienced with geckos it worked out alright for me

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    She ate off my finger the first day I had her but she wants nothing to do with it now.
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    She's cute.

    I have a quite a few cresties at this point and they all sleep in odd positions. As for her calming down, that really depends on her. I have a few that seem to be naturally calmer than others. I don't handle my geckos much but some will sit still for a few minutes, others are little psychos and suicide jump a lot. I would try handling her, but if she's flightly naturally handling isn't going to make a difference. Hold her over something so if she doesn't jump she doesn't fall that far.
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    She will let me handle her, she just tries to climb me. She will sit in my hands for a few minutes, just wants to be on the move. Sometimes I get her out and she is more calm that other times. I guess I'm still learning to read her.
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    That first one is so cute!!!

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