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Our Fat-tailed Gecko Nursery

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 Mom and 2 eggs  Fat-tailed Geckos have large tails (hence the name) and skinny legs.   They are kind of funny looking and there are very friendly.   They have thin brown velvet like skin with a design and you need to be gentle with them.   Their tails can come off as a defense mechanism and it is where they store their fat.   The tail will be regrown but never as nice as the original.   They eat mealworms and crickets in captivity and insects in nature.   These geckos have eyelids which makes them unique in the gecko world. They grow to be 4-8 inches long and live 15 to 18 years.     We just added a Fat-tailed Gecko nursery to our house!   It really is a 2’x2’ incubator that keeps the humidity and temperature just right for the 4 existing eggs and 2 on the way! Peter had 4 fat-tailed geckos and he kept them separated for several years.   They were easy to care for and feed.   Now that Peter is building new cages for his animals, he decided to see if he could put them to