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Gargoyle Geckos

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So I just turned 2 of my tanks into bioactive substrate tanks. I had enough supplies left over to also do a 45 gallon bowfront I had in the basement. I'm thinking I want something different for that tank and have always liked the gargoyle geckos I see at the Hamburg expo. Anyone here have experience with these guys?
 
We have Gargoyles along with cresties. Easy to take care of. We keep ours at room temp which is 72 in the winter and a little warmer in the summer.High temps over 85 is dangerous. Easy to feed with Respashy Gecko diet. Adults are fed every 2-3 days and we throw an occasional cricket in to give them something to hunt. You need to spray the vines and/or leaves nightly so they have water droplets to drink. Totally arboreal. They hide in vines during the day and come out at night. A little less jumpy than a crested but will dive to what is seemingly to their deaths without a seconds thought not too. Adult males should be kept individually as they will fight. You could keep an adult male with a harem (2-3 females) so he wont breed one to death but you'll end up with a lot of females laying eggs and wearing the females out. So it is highly recommended to keep Gargoyles (like cresties) individually.
They make great pets as long as you spend the time interacting with them.
 
I keep Cresties and Gargs, and they keep pretty much the same, care wise. Gargs can tolerate a little bit higher heat than Cresties can. I keep mine at normal room temp with my Cresties.
Gargs have a reptuation for being a little more bitey than Cresties, but the only time I have been bitten was when one of mine thought he was getting dubia. I think Nanci posted a Garg bite a while back. (If it wasn't Nanci, I don't remember who it was.)

Overall, they're pretty cool critters.
 
I have cresties & a gargoyle too. Although you can raise them purely on a diet of Repashy, I found that mine were all slow to gain weight until I introduced live feeders. I now feed CGD on 2 nights (I have 4 different flavors so they don't get bored) & I alternate small dubia roaches & either phoenix or butterworms on the 3rd night. Dubias are so much easier than crickets (no noise, no smell, no escapees) & perfectly safe to leave in with the geckos. I leave the feeders in a small deli cup & they are usually gone in about 10 minutes. All my rhacs now hang out on their tank doors each evening around feeding time in the hope of live food, & one of my cresties will even pick up the deli cup in her mouth & rap it on the side of her tank to let me know she wants more! They've all really started thriving since I switched up their diet.
 
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