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Posted by dutchie S.E.QLD (My Page) on Thu, Jan 26, 06 at 19:33
| I have had a gecko inside for years but but I think another one got in and they are breeding! I saw one only 2 cm.in my bedroom.The one hanging out in my kitchen is at least 18-20 cm. and leaves huge droppings everywhere!I was able to catch one and put him outside but have not been able to catch the large one. I have thrown a towel over him to try and catch him or her but no success. There are no gaps, security doors and windows so the first one must have slipped inside in a bucket of veggies.I have bought a box of old-fashioned sticky flypaper but no success. I do not like to poison them but I might have to.I have had 5 kids and 2 husbands to clean up after and I don't want to clean up after a gecko.Help! |
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RE: I like gecko's but....
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| Well I know that feeling we had so many in our house in Townsville and they are very hard to catch, but after one got into our big TV and blew it up hubby finally decided to find out how they were getting into the house built 15mts before and he found it too, would you believe one of the built in wardrobes right in the corner the plasterer must have run out of cornice so they just left a gap there so having fixed that up then came the all out war to catch them again. Yes he tried everything, from throwing towels, to trying to hit them with a fly swatter, the odd thong always left a mark on the wall, so did the news papers so then he started flicking them with the tea towels, all that did was get them off the wall on to the floor where I would chase them with a can of fly spray, terrible I know but if you spray them in the face you should be able to get pick them up by the tail and put them outside, that is if they have any tail left, after living in our house there were plenty there with none .Here in Brisbane I have never seen one Thank Goodness as they are a real pain. Good luck what ever you do.........Cheers..MM |
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- Posted by joshp Qld Aust (My Page) on
Thu, Jan 26, 06 at 23:20
| We're in Brisbane and we have heaps of them in the house. The night is alive with their chirping, and unfortunately the floors and shelves are covered with their poo. I like them because they eat the bugs, but I just wish they would get constipated now and again. |
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| Luckily all of ours are outside. The occasional one that finds his way in we catch and put outside. These are not the native geckos but an import. |
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| g'day dutchie, reckon though they are a ferel in real; terms they will be doing more good for you than a few droppings around the place, figure like us they can't produce solid output without solid imput hey? so bet they are eating lots of bugs that are getting in namely cockroaches and mossies not to mention flies and moths. we ahve them (only a couple or so) and giant green tree frogs in our home we also don't have cockroaches, it's called paying the piper hey bet their dropping aren't as toxic to you as the chemicals used in pest control. len |
Here is a link that might be useful: lens garden page
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| Its such a shame there are so many native and introduced species that have become feral/plague proportions. Deer, foxes, and it now seems geckos.....But we'd all be complaining if there was no wildlife though wouldn't we...... |
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| I have been lamenting the loss of Gecko's since we have had a Monitor Lizard living in our roof, I used to enjoy seeing them. I expect the Monitor will move on eventually and we will have the Gecko's back. |
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| We have King Skinks living in the ceiling, but they don't come into the house or keep us awake at night, so we don't mind. In fact we are rather grateful as since they moved in we haven't had rats in the ceiling as we had previously. Plenty of skinks in the garden too, but the only thing in the veggie patch they like are strawberries, and there are enough of them for us to share. |
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| Give me a gecko any day instead of the spiders. I don't know what it is around this area but ever since we moved here we have been inundated with spiders. A few I don't mind and I know they do a good job keeping pests down but I don't like stumbling out of bed in the dark in the mornings and walk through several webs between doorways (every morning) on my way to the coffee or when we sit at the table and find webs around our legs. It doesn't matter whether I vacuum the spiders and webs everyday or resort to sprays (last resort) they are always here. Luckily it is just the little common reddish/brown house spider though we often have large wolf spiders (large enough to give a serious bite to the kids) running across the floor at night and the occasional huntsman (they're ok though they can be BIG especially on the wall beside the bed!). The occasional gecko we get doesn't make very much mess especially compared to the spider webs or mess the green frogs make in the bathroom. |
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| We live in an old queenslander house and it is virtually impossible to seal all the gaps. We share the house with at least 2 Carpet snakes (in the roof or under the house I hope) They regularly shed their skins around the place. The geckos are breeding up - which is great to see, we all love to watch them hunting. We dont spray and the only cockroaches we see usually fly in. I would rather die of gecko poo poisoning than exposure to pesticide. We have numerous spider webs around the verandahs - I just cant bring myself to destroy all that work, and we seldom get redbacks which our more houseproud neighbours have in plague proportions. The gecko poo is nothing compared with the deposits of the micro bat which rests in the toilet and misses every time, instead ,leaving a collection on the floor beside the pedestal - but all this is nothing when I think of the alternative. I dont want to live in an airconditioned, toxic, sealed up box so I just live and let live and hope that the carpet snakes dont come through the open doors and into my bed while Im in it. |
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| I absolutely love geckos!!! They dont pose as much of a threat :3 |
RE: I like gecko's but....
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| i just want to know how to get rid of them as nicely as possible. altogether ! any ideas/ ??? |
RE: I like gecko's but....
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| not sure how you can get rid of them, i have found that if they accidently slip inside a house that is screened they usually don't live long as they dehydrate and suffer from lack of food. where we live now has a few not many but all outside. one of those have to live with scenerios. |
Here is a link that might be useful: lens garden page
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