beaded gecko

[latshki]

I love the australian geckos and I am really wanting to get some Diplodactylus Damaeus from TUG and I have not been able to find much info other than that they get 10cm and come from south west australia
so my questions are
1. what size tank and what are their needs housing wise
2. can they be in groups like knob tails with more than one male
3. does breeding take a lot out of them like it does knob tails
4. what is expected price TUG wants 350 for a pair of adults
5 what are they like personality like, are they jumpy, nice, mean?
6. over all experience with this species

thank you in advance
Layton Mcandrew

 

[MonteQ's]

I can't help you too much as I haven't kept these guys. Only keep Tesselatus so far. There's a decent write up on Diplodactylus in general here:

http://www.geckodan.com/The Care and Husbandry of Diplodactylus Geckoes-1.htm

As far as personality goes, my tessellatus are pretty flighty. I do see them, but they're relatively secretive. Fun little geckos though. Hope this helps.