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BIggest TOKAY ON EARTH! and its TAME!

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Check that out! Not mine but VERY AWESOME. FOlks that own him are great. I can't recall their name but they raise Tokays and alot of Day geckos. Great people. Dang it can't remeber their name. They are part of the Global Gecko Association.
 
I know of a tokay that's likely bigger than that (That one's big but unless the man's hand is a good two feet long, I know of one bigger) but it's nowhere near tame... It's a big, fat, old pet store patroling, escaped rat eating, if you bother it when the lights are on you're going to be missing a thumb kind of male...

It lives in a hole in the wall of a petshop, behind a bank of chameleon enclosures, rare to see it during the day although I did catch a glimpse of it during a minor brown-out. Usually it's only visible if you happen to be physically behind the chameleon enclosures for whatever reason... it opens a mouth that fills the entire hole that it lives in... I swear you could fit a tennis ball inside it's open jaws. One of the few things that I have ever taken a look at and worried about being bitten by (most tokays I'll let them try a taste to show other people that it's not that bad, the only tough part is making them let go).

I'll have to pester him into moving things around and snapping a photograph next time the cham enclosures need to be broken down and cleaned.
 
Tame and Tokay in the same sentence!?! I didn't think it was possible to tame a Tokay. The one I had years ago was vicous and I'll never keep another!! LOL!
 
seen it with my own 2 eyes

Chad's right...they really do have tame Tokays. We've done shows where they were set up (been a couple of years and now can't think of their names...) and their tokays really are that tame. Any they get as imports to work in as new breeders get tamed down first using lots of welding gloves and thick pants. Eventually they are able to ditch the gloves and work with them like in the pic. Their CB babies get regular handling and are gentle as can be.

I can see their booth almost plain as day...they deal more in various Day Geckos than anything else...darn it.

Maybe I'll remember it and get it written down before I come back.

David
 
Tokay and Tame!
I never thought I would ever see those 2 words used together.:D
I have ALWAYS wanted a Tokay but didn't want to deal with the attitude.
Any chance these people will be at the White Plains show on the 18th?
 
I have tokays in my animal room that I set loose a few years ago to pick up the escaped crickets and mice and keep down the spider population. About 3 months ago I saw my big male and measured him at a touch over 16" long. He is not as fat as the animal pictured but he eats frozen mice off hemostats and is huge. Evan
 
Yep thats them Leapin Lizards!

Thanks Kelli. Couldn't for the life of me remember who they were.
They are great people. And thats one of the nicest Tokays I have ever seen.
 
Spray painted a Leachie, now that's funny!!! A tame Tokay is truly a awesome feat. I used to keep a few Tokays about 10 years ago as pets while I was attending school in Gainesville. When friends were over drinking it was a thing for eveyone to cough up a few bucks to see who would willingly take a bite from my largest male 'Gator'. He would draw blood everytime guarenteed, of course I was always willing to add a few bucks to push someone over the edge to do it. Now, I realize it probably wasn't the nicest thing to do to my big Tokay male 'Gator', and they say college is supposed to make you smarter lol, although I had a sneaking suspicion he liked it! Good thing I never bred him as not to spawn a race of man eating, blood thirsty, evil Tokays.
 
have'nt been here in a while and this post caught my eye. I've been breeding and working with Tokays and find them very protective but not hostile. I have several I work with regularly that love to come out and hang out with me. I start handling them as hatchlings before I sell them. Some are nastier than others, it's their nature to not be caught. You have to build a trust with them. Any ways it is very awsome to have people over, reach in and grab a tokay(no gloves) and let it crawl around on you, pet it and so on. Alot of people really don't think it's possible. To me Tokays are the most awsome Gecko out there.

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