Hi guys and gals!
It's been a while since my last visit, I've been busy with my gargoyles, those are really a handful...
It's been 22 days since I got them and I've lost track on the times I've been peed and pooped. If someone told me that gargoyles are such prolific poop machines, I would reconsider buying them =)

I'm really happy even though I'm having some problems feeding them properly. Can you believe distributors don't carry gargoyle or crested food diets? Therefore no shop sells them and I must order it abroad at 2 or 3 times the cost!! =(
Worse than that, they were only fed meallies at the shop and are still getting used to fruit and baby food. Almost every night I must hand feed them.

Anyway, they are slowly gaining some weight but they don't eat/hunt crickets no matter what I do. To go around that issue and get some protein into their system, I've thrown a few crickets into the blender with a couple of baby food spoons and my wife didn't talk to me for almost 3 days =)
Now, whenever she mentions "crickets" and "blender" in the same sentence, it always ends in "divorce"

Two days ago the male shed and allowed me to take a few good pictures afterwards. The most amazing thing was he finishing the last bit of skin (on a foot, looked like a sock) on my hand =) He just sat and ripped it off =)

In the meanwhile I've discovered a new gecko species =)
Bellow you can see a sample and there are a few more pictures here.

Here's a couple of pictures of Rol and Mini Milk, you can see more here further down the page.

Hope you enjoy them!
Ricardo

PS: Don't you think that Rol has a stupid smirk on his face? =)

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Wow, that is an amazing new species... the Carrot-gargoyle-gecko?
Your little guys are cute. I'm sure they'll do fine in your care.

Just some advice: get your wife a new blender and keep the other one "for herps only"! I have to agree with her -- that is pushing the divorce button!
I had to get my own kitchen scale to weigh my frozen rats. (But at least I didn't have to get my own freezer! As long as they're well-packed in freezer bags, that's allowed.)

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LOL we only had to get a separate freezer because we order in so much frozen food!

Lovely pics Ric,. just a suggestion, I have no experience with gargoyles but perhaps if you leave them without hand-feeding for a few days and then try some live crickets they may hunt them down. If you are hand-feeding them nightly then they are going to get used to that and won't bother searching for food.

Put a few crix in a couple of times a week and leave some baby food in there, see if they become used to hunting rather than being lazy

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lol. The gargoyles look great and healthy...In my house it was seperate scale, blender ,cutting board and I had to use the freezer in the garage for my rodents. Great pics Ricardo and keep us post on the growth of the carrot gecko.

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MARSHA

:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

SNORF! Coffee on the monitor again!
Its sooooooo nice when your partner is a herper too! Makes things sooooooo much easier!
Even when I exploded the mouse in the microwave!

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Wow...let me know if you start breeding those carrot geckos! Its strange that you mention your gargoyle's picky eating habits...Im working on buying a gargoyle from a HC member who lives close to me (aasagan) he bought 3 and is selling me the female,he also said that she was a picky eater (I guess its a tendancy with gargoyles) adding crickets to the baby food is a good idea...for now you dont want to get them too used to being hand fed you can also try other insects untill you find something they like. But NOT waxworms (I learned my lesson!)

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The only way I could get my gargoyle to eat was hand feed him..He would eat out of my hand with no problem. But if I put the food in his tank, it was a no go.

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:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

The "carrot head gecko" is still looking for a good name =)

My cricket blending days are over =) It was a one time thing. The images of the crickets being chopped is still very vivid in my head! Blending crickets and chopping them in half with a scissors are the most disgusting things to do with crickets!! =P
(Before you ask why, I chopped crickets in half one day I hadn't anything else than oversized crickets to feed Pog!)

Rachel, I have already tried something similar. They couldn't care less about crickets. They had crickets in and out for several days and they just ignore them. My guess is that they never saw one.

The shop only fed them meallies for the whole 5 or 6 weeks they were there. Not only is this a perfect nonsense in nutritional terms as also a pretty stupid thing to do to a creature that doesn't chew! They bite the prey, apply some force to crush and swallow.

I'm aware of that. They search for food but never eat much on their own.
I'm hand-feeding them now to make sure they make the diet transition, put some weight and make a better bond with me because they are not very used to people.
As soon as Milky gets steady above 10g and Rol above 20g, I will stop pushing them to eat and will try the "crickets or nothing" diet.

Marsha: it's a fantastic creature with incredible camouflage techniques. It has run into the carrots bag and I never saw it again =)

Merlin: my wife, Ana, has a clear preference for Pog and kept away from the geckos since peeing and pooping me became a routine for them =)

Deltro: as soon as I can afford it, I'm going for T-Rex's Gargoyle Gecko Diet as "staple" and will insist on crickets.
Adding crickets to the baby food only works if you blend the crickets. They only lick stuff. Everything has to be chop down very small otherwise it will stay on the plate. Btw, gargoyles should not eat meallies until they are 6 months old, so stay away from those also.
Andy bought some nice gargoyles, good luck with that female!
One more user in rhac forum, woo-huu!! =)

Thanks guys and gals =)

Ps: I've made a more realistic set up for them in those plastic faunariums using live plants, river rocks, coco based substrate and egg crates, you can see a few pics here.

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I've kept Gargoyles for a few years and something that I've noticed is that they will sometimes go through phases where they will not eat something or become very picky. Also when I first got them I remember they would not eat crickets at all but after a couple months they started to settle down and take crickets as well as mashed fruit. Now I'm just trying to get them used to the Gargoyle Gecko Diet.

Eper-ani, what is your opinion of it so far?

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