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Pretty much the same conditions you keep them in. You want temps around 72-80*F, mist as you always would to maintain your humidity.
 
Yes-exactly as Bad-One said, but here's a tip.

It's something I noticed last year.

Put your cresties together about 2 days before you're due for a THUNDER STORM!!!

I've had 5 pairs together for about a month, just hanging around being pals...snuggling close during the day, meeting over the food dish at night...but NOT doing anything even remotely close to BREEDING!!

This past week, we had our first real rain in about 6 weeks, complete with thunder, lightning and a major drop in barometric pressure. (I'm a geek...I've been charting these weather changes vs. breeding, based on a hunch and my own observations.)

Well, when the light shows start up, I noticed a LOT of action in the tanks!! Chasing, quacking, hair-pulling...they got busy!!

So if your gex don't seem to show any interest in each other when you first introduce them, just wait for the next big storm, turn out all the lights, fire up some candles, and pop in Barry White to serenade them!!

Barometric pressure drops = gecko ORGY!!!
 
thats some good advice and thank you for the geek part of it and that is very true for alot of animals so it dont surprise me to be true for geckos
 
Lol, I guess I'm lucky... my poor male will breed any time, any where, with geckos or your hand >_<
 
Yes...Pazuzu sees and knows ALL.

How long have you been keeping cresties?
 
for a little while now was in fish befor had and had geckos years ago but see the crested and wanted them did alot of research on them first and set up my 220 gal aquarium for them and noticed one was a male and the other was a female plus im still doing research on them but wanted to know the min for them to breed to get started the right way from people that has done this compared to the web since i kept running across conflictiung info and thanks for all and any info that has been given and going to be given
 
If they are together now I'd recommend keeping a laybox in there. Also, make sure your female gets enough calcium to ensure she doesn't get mbd. For most, breeding cresties is as easy as putting a male with a female and waiting for eggs.

A 220gal tank is huge!! lol I'd recommend putting food in several locations to ensure they can find it.
 
i do got 2 water dishes and 3 food dishes plus i put a dozen dusted cricks in there for them to chase if they want or to watch for a snack when ever as soon as i can ill post some pics of the tank for all to see its a full on trum with plants and all plus a misting system that runs every 4 to 6 hours for 1 min and shuts off so ill i have to do is keep food in there for them and a little cleaning here and there
 
Cresties need more than just dusted crickets to be healthy!!!

They need Repashy Crested Gecko Diet as their main food source, because they're frugiforous (sp?) geckos-not insectivores.

Insects are fine for snacks, though.
 
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They get Repashy Crested Gecko Diet plus to sweetin it up a little bit i put very little baby food in there i was debeating on if i should get some fresh fruit to puree for them to put in the cgd but not sure what kind i know about bananas but been reading and see post about other fruits but not total sure
 
roadrunnermalwi said:
They get Repashy Crested Gecko Diet plus to sweetin it up a little bit i put very little baby food in there i was debeating on if i should get some fresh fruit to puree for them to put in the cgd but not sure what kind i know about bananas but been reading and see post about other fruits but not total sure
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By mixing baby food or fruit into the CGD, you upset the nutritional value of the food.

If you want to change to flavor for your geckos, try the 2 part diet-it's sold on-line at Pangea-

http://www.pangeareptile.com/store/two-part-gecko-diet.html

By adding baby food or other things, you're basically rendering the values to giving a can of soda and a bag of potato chips to an toddler.

They might LIKE it, but it's not good for them.
 
should of never gave me that site for the catalog now i can spend like a couple hundred there and not even think about it but thak you for the part about the food
 
LOL-that's what we do!!! We help each other.

20 years ago, if you wanted to breed herps, you had to have connections to someone who would walk you through it all. There was no internet!! And herpers kept their secrets like misers keep their money!!

A few money saving tips-

Dollar Tree sells 5/6 foot garlands of silk leaves. For a BUCK! Cut them to length for your tank and add suction cup hooks (True Value hardware has them pretty cheap.) to the ends for Tarzan swings and such.

They also carry suction cup soap dishes that make great ledges for sleeping and resting. Also a BUCK!

Also, RECYCLE!!

I use Gatorade caps for dishes, plastic jar lids for water dishes, paper towel/toilet paper tubes for tunnels, and margarine tubs for hides and lay boxes. The tank may not look fancy, but you're saving money AND the environment!
 
By the way-I noticed this morning that you'd already joined Pangea's forum and got several answers to your questions.

I'm assuming that you didn't like their advice.

I whole-heartedly agree with everything they said, including quarantining your geckos when you buy them, before you introduce them to each other.

It's really not too cool to play one forum off against another to get the info you want vs. the real facts that need to be stated.

There is a LOT of member over-lap between crested gecko forums, and when the word gets out that you've joined all of them and are asking the same questions, many members just might stop answering your questions altogether.

Just a word of warning...
 
SamanthaJane13 said:
LOL-that's what we do!!! We help each other.


Dollar Tree sells 5/6 foot garlands of silk leaves. For a BUCK! Cut them to length for your tank and add suction cup hooks (True Value hardware has them pretty cheap.) to the ends for Tarzan swings and such.

They also carry suction cup soap dishes that make great ledges for sleeping and resting. Also a BUCK!

Also, RECYCLE!!

I use Gatorade caps for dishes, plastic jar lids for water dishes, paper towel/toilet paper tubes for tunnels, and margarine tubs for hides and lay boxes. The tank may not look fancy, but you're saving money AND the environment!
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here anthor tip that can be used for you if you dont like the look of the caps and other things that are being recycled try using this type of paint krylon Fusion it is non toxic and safe to use in tank weather you have reptiles or fish so can paint ur soap dishes and food,water dishes any color you want
 
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