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Medi Gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) hatchling help

Alex G

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So tonight my cat found something more interesting than his usual cricket or beetle... a Mediterranean house gecko. This guy is TINY! My smallest mealworms are about the length of his entire body. I rescued him from the cat and I was going to just let him go back out into the yard when I noticed one of his legs was broken and slightly bloody. Not sure if it was my cat or something else, but I figured a tiny and injured baby gecko would be an easy dinner for something out there, so I put him in a tupper ware with a very shallow milk lid with some water, and a gatorade lid with a little bit a calcium+D3. My plan is to keep him (because it's a bad idea to release him once he's been in a captive enivronment and anyways, these are non-native invasive species) while feeding him wingless fruit flies. Is there anything else I should know about his care? Once he gets bigger I'll upgrade him to a larger living space but for now, he's got 36x his length in room to move.
 
Today he's eaten two fruit flies so far, probably will eat more once it gets darker. What kind of environment do these need? I assume a lot of humidity. Do they climb often and would he enjoy a fake plant?
 
You can feed them fruit flies, as he gets older some pinhead crickets.

70% humidity (spray twice a day) is good for them

They will do good with a 85 degree basking spot and will do fine with room temp at night.

A shallow dish of water is good and a bottle cap of calcium (no D3)

For substrate I would use paper towels or newspaper just because he's so tiny and I would offer him lots of hiding places (paper towel tubes, fake plants, branches, rocks, caves)
 
Thanks for your reply! I tried to spray his enclosure a few time but he freaked out, so I stopped for a bit. I'd like to put some spaghnum moss in for him to offer a little more humidity but I worry that his food (the fruit flies) would hide in it and make it more difficult for him to eat. I have everything else but the hot spot (my house stays 80-84 all day), which I will add in once he's large enough for an actual tank or kritter keeper (and his food is, too).
 
I noticed him in shed today so I think I figured out a way to get it moist in there for the time being... instead of spraying him, I rubbed a little water on the top of the container and let it drip down to the bottom... I'll change the paper towel tomorrow to keep it from molding but I think this will work until he's bigger.
 
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