Need Quick Help

[bonez]

Im going to purchase a gecko in a couple hours and i want to make sure it will be ok on the drive home, how should the temp be in the car, anything i should put it in for the drive? please give me some help.

[Freakie_frog]

what kind of gecko and how far of a drive? Is its home already to go once it gets to the house?

[mlededee]

yes, we are going to need some details in order to properly answer your question.

if you can put it in a kritter keeper and place a blanket over it for the drive that might work, or i assume that it will come in some sort of container that they will give you at the store? if it is a transparent container you should cover it with something to minimize stress. if it is a gecko that requires heat and it is more than a 10 minute drive or so you can place a heat pack below the container as long as you check to make sure it isn't too warm inside the container (wrap the heat pack in some paper to keep it from getting too hot if necessary). if you are getting something like a crested you don't really need to give it any more heat than the normal heat in the car since they don't like it that hot and can withstand a little cold for short periods of time.

[bonez]

the drive is about an hour. its a crested gecko. I'll be picking it up by my sisters house, (5 min. from the store) so i'll make a stop there and then for an hour drive home.


So don't make it too hot for the crestie? Ok thats where i think i went wrong the first time. We were told that it didn't like the cold, so we tried to keep it warm and i think uh, well we made it too warm. It didn't die, but they wouldn't let us take it back either. It was probably better that way. Would have been a 4 hour drive from PA to NY. now i only have to worry about 45 minuters.

anyway its a baby crested gecko. I have a small clear critter container for it. do you think i should get something so it could hide?

thanks

[mlededee]

don't heat the enclosure at it will be too hot for the crested gecko. the normal heat in the car will be enough. cresteds actually don't like the heat--above 80-82 and it gets dangerous for them. for the ride home just ball up some paper towels and put them in the kritter keeper for the gecko to hide in and cover the whole thing with a towel.