Hey all~

I keep a bunch of animals, have always sorta been into reptiles. About 2 days ago, one of my roomates came into my room asking me if one of my "creepy-crawlies" had gotten out, because she heard a strange noise in her room at 4 a.m.. I checked all my cages and said "nope, sorry." The next night, I was watching Jorge Arce(boxer) getting the crap kicked out of him, and I heard the noise. Now, I know what I Tokay Gecko sounds like, as I kept one a couple years back (I got rid of it because the little guy was just a liitle bit too vicious, I don't mind DEFENSIVE herps, but not AGGRESSIVE ones...as in, I don't want to cuddle, I just want to clean your cage, please don't attack me for that...).


Anyways, long story semi-short, the noise annoyed us (her) to the point that I told her "ok, I'll catch it and relocate it". I go outside, follow the noise, and (with really really thick gloves) catch the little guy. Obviously, he/she didn't like the idea of being captured too much, and he dropped his tail. Kinda. It came 1/2 way off. So I felt kind of bad, and I put it in a spare 20 gallon that I had, with the intentions of making sure it was okay before I let it go. When I woke up the next morning, he had dropped the rest of the tail, and he seems to be okay, he's eating crickets and all that. The problem is I don't really have any expeierence with animals that have dropped their tails...it looks like an open wound, not at all sanitary.

So the million dollar question is: Should I wait a bit for the tail to start to regrow before I let it go, or do you think it'd be okay now? I have toyed with the idea of keeping it, but I haven't forgotten what a pain in the ass the 1st one I had was, and I'm pretty sure I don't have the patience to deal with another little spastic-chainsaw-gecko-from-hell, even though they are hands down the prettiest geckos I've ever seen. So any ideas? Think it's cool to let him go now? BTW its about 9 inches without the tail, was prolly around a foot with it.

Thanks!