Mooing Tricycle said:
You would do best to listen to those that are giving you Sound advice. Those with negative comments, take it with a grain of salt.
Its nice to see you are trying to help/tried to help the gecko, but you now need to be concerned with the care of the others you have. If you are new, might i suggest taking it slowly on aquiring animals. Especially if you plan to breed. Posts like this will not make you a credible breeder when your name is searched. Just a fair warning. Good luck on your Leos!
The negative comments are all amusing to me, very much like a game. These people amaze me at how easy they are to play with. But then, there are people like you who don't play, who are serious, and it is people like you that I actually enjoy talking to the most.
I can admit, I went through the symptoms of (what they call in the aquarium hobby) New Tank Syndrome, in which I bought quite a few geckos within a short period of time and put them all together. It is not my intention to keep them in poor conditions, as I am sure (besides whatever disease they have) they are not living in, but I will be rectifying all problems with them by the end of the week.
They say leopard geckos are the "beginner lizard" for most people as they are so easy to care for. This lizard was the first death that I've had with them and it bothers me that I couldn't do anything to save it, but I have learned a lot through this thread for what to do when I find the next lizard like this, and how to save its life before it dies. I knew when I saw this one that I couldn't just leave it behind, I didn't want to know that there was something I could do and that I didn't do it, so I made my choice. Better to try and fail than not to try @ all, right?
About being a credible breeder, I'm sure by the time I learn all the genetics and husbandry and all the little secrets to these geckos, they will speak for themselves (figuratively, of course, not like Walt Disney would want or anything). These people on here, they are not the only breeders, and they are definitely not the only buyers either. One way or another though, I will learn all this, I will become a great breeder and I will perpetuate this species through the next levels of morphs and evolution. I am the new generation of breeders, and although that might sound stupid, all these old-timers (not yet, I know, but they will be) will be gone soon enough and then maybe people will look back and see all these posts, see what has been said and they will read me for what I am. Yes, I argue, and yes I have different opinions and wish to try out different things. Is that so wrong, though? Where would we be today if someone didn't think "I want to make a gecko that has no spots on its body and bright orange on its tail. And I think I'll call it a Hypomelanistic Tangerine gecko with a Carrot Tail," or any of the designer morphs of today for that matter? We would be stuck with the old, wild type gecko and there would be no diversity among the varieties. I'm digressing though, I don't exactly plan to sell the geckos I'm going to breed just yet. My plan is to get at least one gecko from many of the major breeders in the hobby, breed them all to each other and then experiment on the babies. Nothing like open heart surgery or anything, but I'm thinking more like "what happens if..." questions that I have that no one seems to be able to answer on here. Then after a while I plan to sell them, but first, I gotta build an army. Its all trial and error though and the way I see it, the only place to go is up. Thx for the warning though.
