Tokay.....

[portal_reptiles]

well... a nice pic of my male tokay...just wanted to be 1st. lol

[Geckogal]

 He's a beauty! I've always wanted a tokay... *wistful expression*

[honuman]

well... a nice pic of my male tokay...just wanted to be 1st. lol

I don't know why so many folks consider them garbage geckos.  I guess the cheap price.  They are really one of the most beautiful and colorful geckos.   (disposition aside -- though CB ones have been known to tolerate handling without trying to bite)

Cool picture.

[portal_reptiles]

hes better then some i have seen....i have never been bit my him or any of my CB tokay......knock on wood...lol

[Geckogal]

Yeah are tokays really as vicious as everybody says?

[Liz]

if you get a wc one it can be pretty vicious but i heard cb ones arent really that bad specially if you try to hold them when they are small.

[portal_reptiles]

truth is......most are, i did put some pic on another post of me holding some, but most in the pet trade are WC, they are the worst!!!!, and breeding adults dont like to be played with, my male thinks im going to take his girls or something, and the girls know i take there eggs...lol

[honuman]

truth is......most are, i did put some pic on another post of me holding some, but most in the pet trade are WC, they are the worst!!!!, and breeding adults not like to be played with my male thinks im going to take his guys or something, and the girls know i take there eggs...lol

They are ornery but if I had space and time I would most definitely have a pair.  When I worked in NYC at a Petland (five years before electricity was invented)  we had a huge trade in Tokays.  Folks would come to store and buy them and release them in their apartments to eat all the roaches. Invevitably they would return within  a week or two to buy crickets to release in their apartments because the tokay had eaten all the bugs and they could not catch him.  Pretty neat little buggers.  One lady call all excited because she found eggs in one of her plants!!

Hmmm Maybe I should buy one and just release it in the house to catch all the stray crickets that hit the ground when I feed.

Steve

[Geckogal]

I do that w/ my beardies sometimes when the cats are outside. It's really funny to watch!!! But what do you guys mean by WC tokays vs. CB tokays?

[krazymuttzpuck]

Wild caught and captive breed i believe

[firecrested]

And it's not fun being bitten by an adult Tokay   They dont let go.  I would rather take a bite from a big snake than a big tokay   but they are fun to keep.  They make the tooo-kkk-aaa--yyy sound at night and I think they are some of the nicest looking geckos.

[Liz]

my petco claims they have had a tokay loose for like 5 years and its like 2 feet. they are an attractive animal, i think id onyl get a cb one though, spend the extra money to get a better quality animal.

[portal_reptiles]

i would luv to have it...sounds BIG...

[monster]

They make the tooo-kkk-aaa--yyy sound at night

would anyone have a recording of that? i had no idea they made neat sounds 

[krazymuttzpuck]

Go to portal-reptiles website, and look under Gecko's, i think he has a thing where you can listen to a Tokay Gecko . 

[portal_reptiles]

Go to portal-reptiles website, and look under Gecko's, i think he has a thing where you can listen to a Tokay Gecko . 

yea i did but it on my website....lol

http://www.freewebs.com/portalreptiles/geckos.htm

[warnersister_2000]

haha thanks, always wondered what they sounded like

how do you like the flying geckos by the way?  i saw one at petco and it looked pretty neat.  i don't want an insectivore though.

[honuman]

haha thanks, always wondered what they sounded like

how do you like the flying geckos by the way?  i saw one at petco and it looked pretty neat.  i don't want an insectivore though.

I had a flying gecko for a while  That used to find a  way out of its tank all the time.  I could never figure it out.  Then after a while we had a system down.  I would take a bag of crickets and shake them and he would come running from where ever he was get back into the tank and wait to be fed.  He was a cutie.

[warnersister_2000]

I had a flying gecko for a while  That used to find a  way out of its tank all the time.  I could never figure it out.  Then after a while we had a system down.  I would take a bag of crickets and shake them and he would come running from where ever he was get back into the tank and wait to be fed.  He was a cutie.

haha that's so cute! 

[Liz]

they are nice viewing animal... i think id rathe rhave liek a day gecko though.

[rhacman]

I think tokays are awesome. I used to have a female who was the most docile tokay I've ever seen. She never even barked at me. Her mate was the devil though. When I first got him, I held him a lot to try to tame him. Once when I was holding him, he jumped from my hand and bit my nose and stayed latched on for a little over a hour and a half. But after a few months of handling him he mellowed out a lot and would let me hold him.

I handled all of their babies a lot and they were completely tame as well. I sold all of them a couple years ago though, but I had to have one again, so I bought a juvenile tokay a couple days ago. He's already mellowing out a little.