Western Australia Marbled Gecko

The southern marbled gecko is actually common your house may have geckos living under eaves and biulding crevices.

Western australia marbled gecko. Records of the western australian museum supplement. The marbled gecko has fat reserves in their tail and can be disconnected from their tail when threatened to aid in their escape. Western marbled velvet geckos are insectivores feeding on appropriate sized crickets and woodies. Checklist of the frogs and reptiles of western australia.

You re most likely to find them between pieces of wood in your garden in your roof or even indoors behind a picture frame. We do have several varieties of gecko which can be domesticated and raised a special lizard enclosure called a terrarium. Marbled geckos are actually quite common in some parts of melbourne but people rarely see them because they are nocturnal. The barking gecko is dark purple black to purple brown above with small yellow or white spots arranged in bands across the head body and tail.

Exotic species of lizards such as the chameleon and are unavailable as pets in australia as a australia has no native species of chameleon. Marbled gecko lizards for sale. We have have a large range of marbled geckos and other geckos that you can buy from our reptile store. At night they are often seen around external lights where they hunt insects attracted to the light.

Artificial foliage throughout the enclosure will allow the marbled velvet gecko plenty of hiding spots and coverage a water bowl placed in the cool end and red sand kept at the correct moister is our recommended substrate. Reptiles and frogs in the bush. Tails take about eight months to regenerate. Marbled geckos mate in late summer to early autumn.

The females retain sperm over winter until fertilisation which occurs in the late spring to early summer. University of western australia press. Look for the droppings the dung looks like sparrow droppings black thinner than mouse droppings but capped in a white crystalline excressence in impossible situations like upside down under an eave. The marbled gecko christinus marmoratus is a small soft bellied lizard up to 70mm long.

The marbled gecko is a small soft bellied lizard up to 150mm long. There is a dense band of these spots around the neck. It is easily identified by its large finger and toe pads which spread out to grasp slippery or soft surface. Found in woodpiles under fallen logs or timber in trees and urban areas.

Marbled geckos are an arboreal species and hides under the bark of trees fallen timber or logs during the day.