Creastie tips

[Monza geckos]

Hey I have just started with my male Dalmatian tailess adult creastie and was wondering if anyone knew some good tips and tricks of the trade like what to do in the case of a bad shed or what fruit they can eat a healthy weight etc

[Truffs1178]

Did you do a full clean out of the tank before putting him in it? That baby frag could have had a disease and that may be why it died. It may not have but you should keep close eye on the new gecko I case it picks anything up.

[Monza geckos]

Yer I cleaned out the tank

[COOCOpUcHoo]

I always wondered why people sell tailless animals. Did they intentionally take it off, are they defects, is it the ones hurt by accident?

[Lija]

I always wondered why people sell tailless animals. Did they intentionally take it off, are they defects, is it the ones hurt by accident?

there is absolutely nothing wrong with tailless gecko, in a wild none of them have tails and in fact some with tails develop issues like floppy tail syndrome(FTS) in captivity.

it is natural process for all geckos to drop their tails when somebody is trying to catch it ( or gecko thinks this way), it is always better to loose tails then ones life sometimes they drop their tail with no apparent reason, however i personally think it is very much related to the amount of stress a gecko experiences, such as keeping geckos in groups, especially babies, in small tanks with not enough foliage. most geckos are able to regrow tails, but not crested geckos.
sometimes when FTS is becoming an issue people might opt out to help a gecko to drop its tail, it is still a debatable topic and idea is going around that genetics might play certain role in developing FTS and none of the breeders, that i know of, won't risk and use such a gecko for breeding.

congrats on getting a crestie, it looks a bit skinny though from that angle, what is his age/weight?

feel free to ask questions, there are quite a bit of us who know cresties too

[Truffs1178]

What do you mean by no wild cresteds have tails?

[Lija]

they drop them real soon after hatching, try to live in a real world

[Truffs1178]

Why do they do that? It seems pointless to just drop their tail for no reason if it may come in handy later. Also what do you mean by try to live in a real world?