Massive update coming!!

We haven't been updating the website too often (everything has been on the facebook fan page!) but promise to at least update the available geckos this week. I have been contemplating changing to a new hosting server and redoing the website from scratch so I don't want to spend a lot of time updating what will soon be deleted. 

Just to give you an idea of what has been happening...

We've already hatched over 30 crested geckos so far this season, with over 40 eggs incubating. 

Our gargoyles are laying and we hope to have a few hatch next month.

We are looking to expand our pinstripe project as we've just hatched out our first 2 100% pinstripe babies from GT x Shelby! Here's one of them Boss [302]: 

We have a new breeder weight female we are going to put with GT just to see what happens in a few weeks after her quarantine is up. This is Cream Puff.

 We also purchased two sub-adult female reds, Fruit Loops & Red Velvet, who will be paired with Sebastian next season. They are HOT.  [This is Fruit Loops, NOT fully fired!]

On the selling side....

We will be putting our beautiful Barracuda up for sale, as we have ended up with too many male pinstripes. If Bert ends up being male, we will be selling him too. 

Lots of little ones sold this weekend at AAE... but there are still some left that will be put into the available album.

We are looking to getting a bigger space to expand breeding next year... :)

Season 2!

The season is off to a great start so far! Here's a few pictures of our hatchlings for season 2.... I'll put captions and parent information in soon. But for now... it's time for NARBC Tinley!

This was the look last night in the incubation box...

Shir Khan

Baloo x Mowgli

Sonic

Goliath x Tails

Knuckles

Goliath x Tails

Kaa

Baloo x Mowgli

Insectosaurus

Spike x Pineapple

Mater

Sebastian x Iago

Lightning McQueen

Sebastian x Iago

Sultan

Spike x Aladdin

Abu

Spike x Aladdin

Dos

Chips x Rafiki

Ford

Chips x Rafiki

LGP went to AAE

And came back with only 3!!

We had an amazing time talking with people about our geckos and many even took a piece of LGP with them :)

Look who found a new home today!
Taz, Minnie, Jerry, Oberweis, Ernie, Mario, and Natasha
Annex: Dotty, Bill, Batista, Deb, Billy Bob, Aphrodite

Still looking for a home:
Barney, Tom, and Oscar (but I might just hold on to that one...)
Annex: Stripey

In case you haven't noticed on either Facebook or on our available page... there is now The Annex of LGP Gecko. This portion does not live at LGP, rather they are all Ryan's sister's geckos who live about 20 minutes away. We will be adding a sub-page so you can check out those breeding pairs as well. She has an AMAZING pinstripe pairing from Andrew Schnell. They have had four offspring so far, we bought one (Chevelle) and they were the first 3 off the table at AAE yesterday. For those of you who don't know what AAE is... it's Scott's All Animal Expo held in Wheaton, IL at the Dupage County Fairgrounds the first Saturday and third Sunday of each month.  It was our first time vending there today, however, we go constantly!


In other news, we have added 2 new gargoyles to the mix with three more to be shipped once weather permits.

This big lady (50 grams so far...) is Cinnamon. We thought this was her fired up because she had such bright white and those Cinnamon Sticks down her back. Later on she showed us that she has some more burgundy/red tones in her. She has an amazing personality.

This little one still doesn't have a name. I could tell, despite being totally fired down when I bought her, that she was red. Sure enough....

We're in need of a food name for this one (most likely a girl). Any ideas?

These next three are currently in the hands of Tiger Onzuka (GeckoLovers.com) and will be coming to us once the weather cooperates!

Male:

Male:

(Doesn't he look like Darkwing but only with Red Splotches??? You can see where this is going)

Female (in shed)

If you cant' already tell, we are VERY excited to get started breeding Gargoyle geckos!! We have three RTB females just waiting here for the guys above.... 1 female who will be ready in a few months, and 2 little ones (who I'm going to guess at this point are females) for next year!!

Garfield and Penelope are going to be heading over to the Annex next week, we look forward to seeing what they produce!

Our breeding season has begun!!! Just to clear the air, we have NEW breeder females beginning to lay as they came to weight at the end of last season and have begun laying as of last month (some of them). We also have 2 females who cooled for 6 months and 1 for 3 months. (Only 4 veterans/proven) I know some people are like "Um... it's still winter?!" Not in our house, it's perfect temperature for them!

As of right now we have...
4 Eggs from our dalmatians: Chips x Rafiki
2 Eggs from our reds: Sebastian x Iago
4 Eggs from our high contrast harley: Spike x Aladdin
2 Eggs from our tri color harley: Spike x Pineapple
2 Eggs from our darks : Goliath x Tails
2 Eggs from an experiment: Spike x Raja
2 Eggs from our darks: Baloo x Mowgli

Doughball and Gambit both paid a visit to their layboxes but nothing yet....
Ariel, Brooklyn, and Nala have yet to lay. Sarabi will most likely be paired with Mufasa by March and Shelby with GT.

Whew, I think I'm done typing for now...

Sorry for the lack of posts... been busy! You know how it goes.

We've added a few different geckos including a sub-adult male from Pangea named Baloo. He's a dark male for Mowgli in the spring. We also picked up a sub-adult female from Pangea named Penelope for Garfield.

And.... We have the first babies from Pickles x Doughball: Snuffleapagus and Oscar the Grouch. Hatched out at 1.7 and 1.9 grams. They are such little cuties. I can't wait until we can get some photos of them. The names were switched because Snuffleapagus ended up having green hues and Oscar was brown, so it only seemed fitting.

All of our ladies are on a laying hiatus despite them being in warm temperatures. Oh well...  but we are in need of male gargoyle. We cannot find a 30+ gram reticulated male with orange blotches around here! If anyone has one, please LET US KNOW!

We will be having a little Christmas sale soon....

Meet the Gargs!

We've added 4 very new faces here... gargoyles geckos! Oreo (aka Big Mama) came to us from Derek Dunlop, paired with a red striped female formerly. Doritos also came from Derek Dunlop as a female. Darkwing Duck (aka Stick) is a little cutie who came from Supreme Gecko. The little guy below hasn't made it to the gargoyle page yet... named Oberweis. When we first got him (or her) it was practically all white with little black markings. Obviously, that is not the case anymore!

There also updated pictures and weights on the Available and Unsexed pages. New weights will be posted on the adults pages soon :)

Back from Tinley!

NARBC Tinley is over... and it was fantastic! We won VIP passes from Supreme Gecko (Thank you, Wally Kern and Brian Potter!). Got to meet and talk with some fantastic gecko people. And of course, we came home with a few new faces as well. While they won't have an official photoshoot for a few weeks, we figured we'd sneak in a few pics.

Meet the long awaited (well maybe only a week) Shelby! Just look at that back :)

She will be with GT in the spring. From Supreme Gecko (thanks Wally!)

In between the show and the auction, the geckos got to hang out at Culvers.

This next one is Mufasa... crowned head with nice pinning.

He will be with Sarabi in the spring. From Ariel Cudia

We got our very first Gargoyles, too! 

Meet Darkwing Duck. Goes from a light gray, to jet black with orange. From Supreme Gecko (thanks Chris!)

Next up is Dorito. We love the retic look in gargoyles, especially with orange and red in them.  This one has a lot of orange, even in her tail! From Derek Dunlop.

This chunky mama is Oreo. She's gravid from a redish striped male from Derek Dunlop.

She's massive and such a sweetheart.

In other news, our dubia colony is growing! Their bucket got cleaned and egg cartons replaced today. Before that happened, we thought a pic was due of all of them hanging out without their hiding places. Ain't the cute?!?!? Not.

Bagheera will be shipping out this week for Oklahoma. With Brooklyn and Tails now with Goliath, Bagheera is just extra. Why not spread the dark gecko love??

Stay tuned for more pictures and weights in the next few weeks!

Maybe even a leachie!

I'm going to Tinley.... see you there!

It's almost here! Thank goodness for the counter on the side keeping me in check :)
If you are planning on going to NARBC Tinley, be sure to check out Supreme Gecko's ticket contest!!!

Supreme Gecko Contest!


We will be picking up our latest addition... SHELBY... from Supreme Gecko on Saturday. *Photo courtesy of Supreme Gecko**

She will be one of the cornerstones of our pinstripe project. Her and GT will be making beautiful babies... in the spring :)

Can't wait to see what else we'll find. Hope to see everyone there! On Saturday, I'll be in my WCR shirt, so if you see a nearly 6 foot tall young woman with glasses, it may just be me. Say Hello!

My bowl!

 Super Busy, what else is new?

We are in need of some new photos of our hatchlings, desperately, but it will have to wait. We have had a few more hatchings: Tom and Jerry [a DARK pair from Goliath x Bagheera] and a no-name gecko from Goliath x Rafiki. (Name TBD once sibling hatches). Raja and Timon have been paired together as have Pickles with Doughball and Yoshi. Next weekend, Spike will be moved to Pineapple and Aladdin while Chips will be moving in with Rafiki. It's ALMOST time for Ariel and Sebastian, but not yet.

Here's a sneak peek though at a little guy we got from Donald Falk at the All Animal Expo. Nearly full pin with lateral stripes. Since s/he's a pinstripe... it gets a car name. This is 'Cuda [short for Barracuda]

We snuck in after feeding everyone and it was like they were all saying "MY BOWL!!"

Here's Aladdin and Phoenix (don't mind the water stains on the glass)

Mowgli and Ariel love their Peach!

Chips is happy to see you and the Peach!

Garfield wasn't going to let go of his bowl!

Sorry for the glare, but couldn't pass up sharing this one of Sebastian!

You know... we aren't just geckos around here!

Here's the prickly ones: Noodles & Oatie

And the Blue Tongue Skink, Pumbaa, in her new custom cage built by Ryan.

Everyone is growing like weeds around here! Cannot wait to share new pics of Flotsam and Jetsam, they look amazing. Be sure to check us out before you head to NARBC Tinley when everything will be updated! We are not far from the show :)

Many have found new homes!

If you have been on the unsexed or available page lately, you probably noticed that there are many geckos missing.... welp, they aren't missing, they've found new homes!! 5 of them have gone locally while 5 others will be heading to their new home in West Virginia on Monday (weather permitting). It is exciting to have our geckos be admired by others but also sad to watch them go... can't keep them all though, that could get dangerous.

We have put Phoenix up for sale... sub-adult female. We've watched her grow for the past 6 months when we got her from a man shipping off to the Marines... she's such a beauty, we've never seen anything quite like her, but we also can't find a male for her so we are offering her for sale. She is NOT ready to breed but should be by the end of the year, should her next owner decide to breed her.

There are still some geckos who need their photos updated, don't worry it's coming. We've been super busy (I still have to move my entire classroom to another building before school starts on the 29th!) but no worries :)

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at lgp@lgpgecko.com

***Our address is now www.lgpgecko.com **** No more blogspot in the address.

Check out the Updates!!!!

We finally got our light tent in the mail! It took a little time to get use to but its taking great pictures now. Be sure to check out the new pictures. Also updated are the "unsexed" page with all of our babies and the available geckos section. These pages will be fully updated in the near future.

Since our last posting, we have had 4 new hatchlings: Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Boris and Natasha. Their weights and pictures are listed under unsexed section. Here is a preview of the new babies.

Little busy...

We have to apologize for the delay in updating both weights/photos/and the available page. We had our annual camping trip for a good portion of the week/weekend, only to get a phone call [right before we got to SEWERfest on the way home from camping] saying there were bad storms the night before and the hedgehog's cage was blown across the room and the container with the eggs (which were set to hatch so the pair were taking out of the incubator box) was on the floor. Hedgehog was no wheres to be found, geckos were no where to be found. One egg had clearly hatched, and the other was completely missing. Oatie was found not far from his cage, unharmed. After tearing apart the rest of the room, only one of the geckos was found, tailless, but okay. His name is Houdini :) Still have no idea where the other egg went, whether the cat or hedgehog ate it or what.

Anyhow... our first Goliath x Bagheera egg hatched earlier this week... but unfortunately, was the very first of our hatchlings not to make it, passed away two days later. He did incubate for 70 days but it just wasn't long enough for him. :(

New pairing: Raja & Timon!! Both are of weight and are getting along great... two orange pinstripe geckos, sounds good right?

Goliath & Bagheera have been separated, Goliath has only been focusing on Bagheera and not his food so it was time for a TIMEOUT. Brooklyn will soon be ready for Goliath so we hope he gets to eating like a pig.

It looks like Gambit laid her first infertile egg... meaning we may need a BRIGHT yellow patternless male soon. :)

If you have been following our available page, here's the lineup that will soon show up on it:

Doc, Uno, Littlefoot, Pebbles, Ren, Stimpy, Lilo and Stitch.

We've had several people ask about Chevy, and unfortunately, s/he will be held back and we don't have intentions of selling Chevy at this time. Flotsam & Jetsam will eventually be for sale, but we are watching their colors develop.

I (Teresa) have gone back to working part-time-ish and grad class has started again so it's getting hard to update often. School [work!] will be starting in a few weeks as well, but Ryan will soon be doing updating as well. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment or send us an email at

lgpgecko AT gmail.com

[trying to avoid the spammers :0]

A beautiful find...

She hasn't had her first photo shoot yet... but here's a beautiful 13 gram, probable female. As you can see she is a beautiful tri-color harley with some pin and a couple of dalmatian spots. I just couldn't pass her up :)

Look at this next picture closely.... do you see it?

There is, in fact, a gecko on that scale... she's just that dark (she wasn't fully fired either). Our little darkness, Mowgli, is growing like a weed! Before you know it, we're going to need a male for her.

Hatchling Update: Flotsam & Jetsam

AKA Mini-Nala and Mini- Spike

Weighed in at 1.9 grams
Hatchling Update: Michelangelo & Rafael

From Gambit x Goliath

Weighed in at 1.7 & 1.9 grams, respectively
Hatchling Update: Leonardo & Donatello

Rafiki x Gambit

Weight: 1.7 grams each

**Hatched early due to heat wave, hoping Donatello's tail will straighten out**

And we leave you with an updated photo of the lovely Aladdin, who weighed in at 26 grams. Another fast grower... perhaps she's hurrying to be with Spike??