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The past few days have been pretty difficult for me - I ended up getting one of my Christmas presents early >__>

This little critter was found in a Petco near the house I spent Thanksgiving at, about 2 hours from my home. I went in ostensibly for ten-gallon tanks, and instead spent a half hour staring at this beautiful gecko. I told myself, "No, self, you don't need another gecko," and I even brought another person that SHOULD have been my second conscience, but he told me the gecko was cute and that I should get it. BAD consciences!

This critter was in full shed in the store, but even through the loose skin I was able to see the awesome pinstriping that covers almost all of its back. It also had bright orange on the sides that shone through the misty skin.

If that weren't enough to make me want it, I just watched it go around and around in circles like a puppy about to poop, trying to get the shed off. For some reason, that endears me to these critters more than anything. They become so self-aware at that time; they lick the skin back from their snouts and pull it from their legs with their jaws, all the way down to the tail.

So according to my second conscience, this one should be named Torta. Okay. It's got such intense belly/under-markings that it's hard to tell yet whether it's male or female. When it calms down for a few days I'll try again to see :) When I look in the magnifier it looks female, but in macro photos it looks male - but that could be because it's pressed against glass, flattening some scales, for the photo.

So yeah, today is slightly better than the previous few days. Slightly!

This one will be quarantined from the rest of my stock in a separate closed-door room for two months, as... who knows what they pick up at a pet store. I'll monitor its health and always feed it last so I am not handling its enclosure before I handle my established stock!

More info on my geckos:
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kkrex's avatar
Oh I want one so bad!!!