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What Goes on in My House?! Aliza Arzt
Welcome to the first of what we hope will be many photo-essays about our geckos in our homes. A photo essay is designed to be heavy on pictures and light on words, so without further ado: More
New Series: What Goes on in My House?!
Entering the house of a dedicated gecko keeper can be a weird experience, especially if the gecko “collection” is integrated into the decor of the home. For many “not your average living room” is an understatement. More
There’s a Gecko in my Salad! Investigating Stowaway Geckos Entering Great Britain
Have you ever been so lucky as to buy a bag of grapes in the supermarket and get a free lizard with them? For most people, this an unlucky experience and a rare one. However, when it does occur it often makes headlines in the local media. More
Gecko Care: When is Worry Too Much Worry?
As an experienced gecko keeper and “gecko forum junkie” I respond to many posts from people who have just gotten their first gecko, or are planning to get their first gecko. They understand that taking care of a living creature is an important responsibility. For the most part, they’re concerned about providing the proper care, about figuring out which of the conflicting instructions they see online and from pet stores is correct, and about interpreting their gecko’s behavior correctly. This all makes sense: with any new undertaking there are concerns about “getting it right”. The learning curve is steep and usually, with a bit of guidance, the “newbie” gets more comfortable and figures out what to do. More
Gecko Breeding Philosophy: What is a Morph?
Gecko breeders spend a lot of time discussing various “morphs” of those gecko species for whom breeders have developed different patterns and colors. To the best of my knowledge, there is no formal, universally accepted definition of what exactly is a “morph”. More
Living with Crypto: 3 Year Update
The unprecedented changes in our lifestyles and daily rhythms due to COVID-19 cause me to reflect on my own 3-year experience living with contagion, infection and death –Cryptosporidiosis. More
Microgecko persicus euphorbiacola Adventure
If a person is a naturalist and a fan of keeping pets, it happens that periods of enthusiasm for different groups of animals replace each other throughout life as waves. A few years ago I read the article “Keeping Microgecko persicus euphorbiacola” by Philip Patton on this site. After that, owning these wonderful animals became my dream (not the only terrarium dream, but one of the main ones). More
Holistic Design in Bioactive Vivariums: Leopard Geckos, Part 1
All bioactive enclosures have the same basic requirements, but the needs of your main inhabitant dictate the ways in which you can support bioactivity. Many people have claimed it impossible to create a bioactive desert terrarium, but let’s not forget that life persists all over the earth, even in the harshest terrain! It’s a matter of designing for the conditions. More
Gecko Time 10th Anniversary!
Gecko Time online magazine published its first articleon March 7, 2009. During the past 10 years, Gecko Time has been an important resource to the gecko community with the wide range of articles it has published. Articles have included interviews, DIY instructions, product reviews, species and genus profiles, genetics information as well as many other topics.
Ten years is a long time, and is more than half a lifetime for some of our younger gecko keepers. MoreInterview with Zach Brink of Josh’s Frogs
Gecko Time recently had an opportunity to interview Zach Brink, the Fauna Curator of Josh’s Frogs More
Big Bad Bart
Bart seems to think he’s a flying gecko. Or perhaps he thinks he’s an impresario. In a household of 65 or more reptiles, most of them geckos, it takes a large “personality” to stand out, and Bart certainly does. Every evening, the loudest sounds in the gecko room, also known as my living room, are the thumps of Bart jumping from one glass wall to another and sometimes crashing and burning in a spectacular way on the pothos leaves when he miscalculates. More
Healing through Art and Reptiles
It often goes without saying, but I had a rough childhood. Regardless, two things kept me going
through it all; art and animals. As a result, my passion for art and the animals in my life have always been intertwined and fed off one another. It all started in my youth with a fascination for dragons. More
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