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Just caught a baby Leopard Gecko!

restes

restes

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It is very young and about 1.5" long from nose to tail tip. It is not injured and seems quite healthy.

Do you think I can keep it alive? Should I just feed it baby crickets?
How long can they go without eating?

I have it in a small 1' tank right now just on the plastic and i put a VERY shallow water dish and a piece of paper tower in there for the moment.

The story here is that I am in Texas for the summer and heading home tomorrow. I was loading my car and when I came back in and closed the door there it was on my wall! Like some sort of parting gift. I will do the responsible thing to care for this little guy or release it if you all feel he is too young to try and get to eat. Ideally I would love to keep him, a leopard gecko is seriously the next pet (beyond my single corn) that I planned to get. Just seems too good to be true.
 
I don't think it's a leopard, they don't have sticky pads, there's another one mentioned somewhere else on here that does and it looks a lot like a leopard but I don't remember what it was.
 
Likely a Texas banded gecko.
I'm not sure about their protection status or collection laws though.

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I may have been a bit excited when making this thread. It doesn't look banded but here is a picture to tell for yourself. It is probably closer to 2" long.

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I am driving a lot the next 2 days and figured I would bring this little guy along. I have a spare UTH pad. Will this suffice for a gecko? I will look up care sheets in a bit.
 
So i checked out a care sheet and saw that the young ones should eat every day. Caught some bugs off the light outside but I am pretty sure I killed them because I wanted to ensure they wouldn't just fly around in my place. Do you think it will eat them if it gets hungry enough?
 
Hemidactylus. It's a female. They all are.
No fertile males are known to exist. Handy lil roach eaters.
Quite at home living behind a painting or a crack in the surface somewhere inside or outside the home.
Free bug control. Let it go.
It's not like it's a cat or something dangerous to native wildlife when gone feral.
 
Mediterranean house gecko. Cute little thing! Sorry, I don't know much about them and can't help more. I know several people on here do keep them as pets though.
 
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