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@@ldobehardcore I can't speak for all women but if you also provide an adequate enclosure it's hard to think of a better gift than a bunch of geckos 🤷♀️
When my dad was stationed in Hawaii and I was 12 I used to catch mourning geckos all the time. In Hawaii they are practically under every loose piece of tree bark. At one point I had this giant 30 gallon glass aquarium I got from a garage sale for five bucks and I tricked it out. I had this 10 inch tall tiny waterfall style fountain I put in for a substitute water bowl. In the bottom I put dirt and wood chips from the garden as substrate and I used fresh fern leaves and pieces of palm fronds picked from the garden and pieces of fallen tree bark and sticks as hides. I fed them by catching tiny insects and putting small pieces of papaya, mangoes and other fresh fruits in a little bowl. At one point I think I had more than fifty of them in a thriving little colony and then my mom realized how many I had and made me release most of them back out into the garden and from then on I wasn't allowed to keep more than twenty.
Lucky lol I just have a lot of frogs and toads(Which I absolutely love) around my area. I may find the occasional turtle or Gartner snake though. I'd have to look extremely hard to find a gecko or salamander where I live.
I have some from Hawaii. They were stowaways from our trip to Hawaii 4 yrs. ago. Now we have 3 terrariums of them. I was so glad to read your reply. Because thats how I feel about them. The more you have the more you see and hear them.
Please stop the annoying trend. First of all, your referring to a variable that is always changing as if it never changes, so your comment is instantly inaccurate. Just 3 days after your comment, the number was 11 times higher. Secondly, your claiming that anyone who disliked the video, disliked the video because of what you say, which is actually just your opinion, but you state it as a fact. In the end, it turns out to just be annoying and it isn't unique, because millions of people leave meaningless comments just like yours. Please break the trend and help stop others from doing it.
I accidentally left a small gap one night in the main mourning gecko tank and I thought for sure if anyone got out they were gone. Two days later the one that did get out was sitting on the mesh top waiting to get back in for breakfast. We were so lucky. She's a saucy thing.
Adorable, personable, curious, non aggressive, and they just keep cloning more of these wonderful little friends! What’s not to love? I fell head over heels for these little ones!!
I have a colony of these beautiful little Geckos. They are amazing to have. I started with 3 but my colony has grown to the point where I'm not 100% how many I have at any given time lol. They are super fast. Had an adult escape and found her 3 months later and reintroduced her to her colony. Have also found babies in my Crested Gecko tank when they have escaped also.These ladies are true escape artists and will sit on the back of food bowls and escape through gaps in doors when you open them. They also make adorable little chirps when there are a lot of them. I keep lots of different geckos (Lechie, Giant Day, Crestie, Gargoyle, Leo and Mourning) and they are all so awesome and different its amazing.
You could use one of those massive Costco/Sams Club cheese ball containers for adults. Bonus: They are big enough that your army of geckos could be massive!!!
I started with 3 babies a year ago and now i have 6 of them with some eggs still waiting to hatch. They make cute squeeky sounds too , specially around evening and morning times. Highly recommend having some in your collection :)
@@thewizkid9228 I have them in a bioactive setup. The substrate is a mix of Arcadia earthmix, charcoal, sphagnum moss and leaf litter. For a more simple setup pay close attention to how Clint has done his enclosure. Sphagnum moss is a good substrate in such a setup. Hope this helps 😊
@@thewizkid9228 I used paper towels when they were babies and had them separate in small containers so it does work. You can use eco earth too. They don't really need much just give them nice places to hide and keep a water dish and or mist every other day
Parthenogenesis. I know what it is and that some geckos do it, but I’ve never really learned about all the details in biology class. It blows my mind that creatures can reproduce this way!
It's crazy interesting. If only we could communicate with them better we could learn so much about nature vs nurture. I wonder if they have obvious personality quirks that are different from each other. So many questions, such an amazing ability.
Not only these little geckos can breed like this there is 3 other animals that can breed like a morning gecko: a scorpion,a certain population of whip tailed lizards,the biggest lizard in the world the komodo dragon and some stick bugs
I have been keeping (and, inevitably, producing ) these little geckos for years. Really fun for planted bioactive vivaria! I have two vivaria for adults and a smaller growout vivarium.
I have two now. And it's fascinating just how different their personalities are and how smart they can be. The youngest one had well demonstrated that she's a great little problem solver by the first day that I had her. She hooks her sheds onto plants and walks in the opposite direction to pull all the skin off in one move and has learned that I deliver the food so will chirp and glance and spiral around on the front of her container near her food bowl when it's empty to get my attention so I change it for fresh. She runs rings around most of my other lizards mentally and is still a juvenile. Can't wait until she's an adult and can make her own pals. The older one doesn't like her at all.
@@Skittenmeow I was referring to the fact that if a member of a genetic group is susceptible to a particular virus, all the members in a genetic group are susceptible. Genetic variation is the best defense against viruses, so if all these guys are genetically the same, a virus could wipe out the entire species. This happened with the banana in the past.
@@dldarby82 oops my bad, please excuse my holiday sleep deprivation! I was only thinking of hijacked replication- lucky there are lots of other tasty banana varieties not yet impacted by the virus :)
@@Skittenmeow True, but I am always wondering what the bananas my parents ate tasted like, and if that's the source of banana flavoring in most foods. Because to me, banana flavor doesn't taste anything like bananas.
@@dldarby82 i remember making the banana ester in chemistry class at school (24 years ago) my teacher told me that's what is what is used for flavour in lollies etc - has a really strong overripe banana smell. Not sure if they use real banana now?
Absolutely amazing. In addition to showing us how to make the hatchling jar, can you show us the enclosure you keep your adults in? I want to see so badly.
@@ClintsReptiles they're advantage shall be their downfall!! Also I was wondering could you do a video on the three toed skink that can have live young or lay eggs would be neat to hear you're thoughts on it
I love how the seccond enclousure link is specified for invertebrates! If that doesn't proove how TINY these rad mourning geckos are, I don't know what could.
Clint, you really remind me of Mr. Rogers, (not including all the possible controversial opinions) you’re so calming, you get so excited about the things you love, have a voice I love to listen to, and you describe things as ‘beautiful souls’ ‘endearing’ etc. You’re so wholesome!Please, never change!
Lesbian lizards ftw. But I'm pretty sure he's referring to the fact that they don't actually pass any genetic material to each other. They're exhibiting mating behavior, but not technically mating according to most definitions. 'mating' has a more specific meaning in biology than 'sexual activity' or 'sexual behavior', which would be accurate terms to refer to what these lizards are doing.
3:20 i wasn’t sure if he was talking about real human mates, or meeting mates as an animal but i guess that gave me my answer.... *im always terrified of random females biting my head off on the streets*
Thank you so much for this video Clint. I love these little gals. I've been looking at setting up a bioactive terrarium with mouring geckos's and dart frogs at Josh's Frogs and your video just confirmed it for me. Thanks and keep up the wonderful work you do. Mike
Excellent video. It was great to learn more about parthenogenesis! I would love to see more technical genetics/breeding/evolution/biology educational videos from you! I know that some viewers may find the more complex academic content boring but for nerds like us it would be fantastic! You are the only reptile TH-camr I know of with a PHD in their field. If anyone is going to put out videos like that it should be someone like you!!
Clint's Reptiles heh leaches be weird cute big things can’t say little. Tho compared to iguanas they ar elittle. But an iguana compared to a Monitor is little. And a monitor compared to an anaconda is little, but compare that to a croc, but then to a t red and diplodocus
@@ClintsReptiles Actually, leachies said, "you can explain a body plan to me when I finally feel like hopping in the shower and changing out of these pajamas." 😜
It only took me three weeks to find my own baby twin girl mourning geckos!!! Thanks so much for the recommendation they’re an adorable and lively addition to my herp family!
To be honest, I don't mind a lack of handle ability as much as I used to. Ever since I started keeping amphibians, in which for most of them handling is a big No-No, and the fact that I have a lot of fish which I obviously can't touch. I've come to appreciate just how fun observing the natural behavior works and feeding behavior of some species
dude i loooove your videos, you’re like the bob ross of reptiles lol. i’ve been thinking about getting some morning geckos but i wasn’t 100% because of the babies but this just reminds me why i loved them in the first place! they’re so simple and amazing.
I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and for some reason these geckos just don’t exist here at all. Nobody ships them here either which just sucks haha. I’m planning on getting a couple from someone in Ontario, unfortunately it will cost me an arm and a leg for just 2 of them but I am hoping to sell them once they reproduce and I’m super excited to take on this project thanks to this channel. There are not many reptiles available here and I am interested in changing that one day! I hope this is a good first step. Thank you for being so stinkin rad Clint and crew!
So cool that you made a video of these gals. I have been dreaming of getting some for a while now. I have an old aquarium that I want to convert into a planted terrarium for them but I'm worried they will escape. 😬
Yup, I need mourning geckos!!!! Our reptile room only has space for one or two more very small enclosures and our shelves aren't spaced out enough for heat light fixtures so a reptile that doesn't require them is absolutely perfect!
Where I live these geckos are found living in peoples’ houses. I’ve seen some in my house. We also have Madagascar gold dust geckos who are aggressive and I’ve seen them trying to eat Mourning geckos. I remember I went to Pizza Hut with my family and outside the window was a bunch of mourning geckos just sitting on the window ledge. Never would’ve thought these geckos would be in the pet trade.
Thanks for explaining this so clearly I think I may have convinced my dad to allow me to buy one for my Birthday! They are so cute and I will take good care!
I have some from Hawaii. They were stowaways from our trip to Hawaii 4 yrs. ago. Now we have 3 terrariums of them. I was so glad to watch your video. Because thats how I feel about them. The more you have the more you see and hear them. A very common lizard but an unknown one. Four years ago when I realized what I had I asked about the white phase. I was told they don't turn white. Mine do so I decided just to enjoy my 2. Finally I had to reduce my numbers and sold two. The buyer explained I have a rare pet outside Hawaii. That's one of my original females on my neck in my pic. Thanks again, Clint P.S. Love your groups work
I've got my colony in a large, live planted, bioactive Exo Terra arboreal viv. The edges are all taped up, the sides of the doors, everywhere. And I have a strip of bath sealant to take care of the gap where the doors don't quite meet in the center. The tape is all gold, so it looks quite good and I've had no escapees. There is still plenty ventilation because of the mesh lid. My only issue arises when I need to catch some for rehoming - that is not an easy task and requires at least two sets of eyes to make sure no one makes a quick exit! They'd not last long in winter in Scotland! Lovely wee things they are, I thoroughly enjoy watching and listening to them :)
Thanks, Clint! After seeing your videos on these tiny insect geckos, I did a little research and got 2 of them a few months ago and they have been so much fun to watch and so easy to care for-which has been great since my health isn’t very good at the moment. I named them Miss Piggy and Kermie because the bigger one has the habit of pigging out on the food and chasing Kermie around for a bit, chirping, when she comes out to eat. Kermie is less afraid of me than Miss Piggy and seems to like to hang out in the corner of their enclosure closest to me, which is nice because it means I get to watch her when she sheds and does her adorable eye licks. I have them in my bedroom so I can watch them and care for them easily when I’m not feeling well. It’s fun to listen to their chirps at night.
I just set up my exo-terra vivarium based off of your guide video and it looks great! Thanks for this video, I have decided I will either get a crested gecko, mourning gecko, or a whites tree frog! You have helped me so much Clink! I will 100% be donating as soon as I get the $50 I am owed.
I saw these little guys in the wild all the time in my trip to Hawaii! I managed to catch one with just my hands and I called her John… I didn’t know they were all females with the same genes! They’re like little amoebas, it’s adorable!!! John also jumped straight onto my face after lookin at me funny. It was an… experience. Hope John’s doing alright today.
Boy that really sold me on getting chameleon geckos instead should I ever expand into geckos other than the magnificent leopard gecko! Mourning geckos are indeed stellar, but I don’t think I could deal with the pressure of protecting all those tiny lives during transport. Thanks for all the hard work this year. Finding y’all is one of my highlights of 2019. Season’s Greetings and all the best in 2020.
Clint I'm sure you may have heard this but you sound very similar to Freddie Highmore and I love it thank you for great videos and quality videos at that!
I have never heard of a reptile reproducing asexually. This is so cool! I'd like to see video on the Rosy Boa or African House Snake. If you wanted to do amphibians, the ribbed newt looks awesome. I just saw one a few weeks ago. I had never seen them in USA.
5:04 I think that's maybe a bit low score given you gave the same score to a venomous snake (rattlesnake) that you can never handle directly without equipment or it can kill you. Sure you are the expert, but I think they should get at least one score higher than a rattlesnake based on the fact that you can hold it directly, I dont doubt its diffucult
I got one of these about 2 months ago together with my dart frogs in a fairly large bio-active jungle vivarium. I just havn't seen it again since, too much jungle to hide in. The frogs are doing great so I guess the gecko should be fine as well.
Hell yeah these are the best lizard. I've had all kinds and nothing has captured my interest more than my little cloning mourning geckos. I started with two and they turned into....a lot...made enough money from selling their hatchlings that I bought some dart frogs to live with them, now here is one thing I have learned if you want to try this mix; provide lots of tubes that stay dry inside and do not get directly misted. The hatch-rate of eggs plummeted when I added a misting system, until I figured out it was cause the eggs were getting wet.
Nah, these geckos do have 'sex' with each other, even though it makes no sense for them to need that. I suppose some other parthenogenic animals really are asexual, but these ones, if anything, show how deeply ingrained in animal behaviour sexuality is.
@@dumupad3-da241 true, but we gotta get our representation somewhere. Besides asexuality is a spectrum and there's no reason a person can't identify as both ace and a lesbian... unless they're a guy, that would make the lesbian part a bit difficult...
Two weeks ago I bought my first 4 baby morning geckos. Im soo glad that you made this stinkin rad video on mourning geckos!! I value your opinion and I know now that I've made an awesome choice! I love these little gals already and I can't wait for eggs.
One point (im no expert but from what ive read on these in particular) is that when you have two they stimulate each other to start reproducing, so in theory if you just get one you shouldnt get nearly as many, if any
:/ Do you have like a website or page that you can fill out the five categories and see what you get? Like say I boop 4 Handability and 3 care, etc. I like your videos but I can't watch them all on my work breaks. I'm trying to find a good pet for my small rented space. Edit: If you make one can it link another page or video(s) about it's care?
I am fast becoming a fan of your channel. Your obvious love and respect for our ectothermic friends is contagious. Could you please do a video of Flying Geckos (Ptychozoon kuhli) ? I would be very interested in your thoughts on them. Thanks for all your info and the excellent work!
They're so tiny and adorable, I love them! I want geckos so bad, but I'd like a gecko I can handle, so if I ever get them, these would probably be a second pick for sure.
These geckos are adorable! We just got some where I work and they are just little babies. I had to catch one for a customer, and that was more nerve racking than any other reptile I've ever had any interaction with. They are so tiny and so cute!
I recommend cohabbing mourning geckos with dart frogs; as long as the enclosure can facilitate arboreal behavior, then it should be appropriately humid and warm for both mourning geckos and dart frogs. Best of all, since dart frogs do not have toe pads and mourning geckos and fruit flies do, then mourning geckos can get the fruit flies that escape the dart frog(s).
P Offutt I think I read somewhere that it’s because there are no males, and the person who discovered them thought they were “mourning” the loss of their husbands.
"No, that's impossible. There is no unauthorized breeding on this island- all of the dinosaurs here are female, we make sure of it." "Yeah, but you used mourning gecko DNA to repair that of these dinosaurs, soooooo...."
I have, and love mourning geckos. I’m so glad you did a video on them, fantastic to watch, so active and fun. So fun to own considering their tiny body size. They hunt like crazy and feeding time is very owner rewarding, fruit flies don’t stand a chance!
I love my 3 girls so much, and Clint's Reptiles and this video are the reason I am a mourning gecko breeder today. I recently officially made my first sale at a local reptile store where I get my supplies and while I miss the babies, I know they'll go on to deposit their own little gifts in someone else's tank. I have 5 babies and 15 eggs and I can't wait for them to hatch. Thank you so much for what you do, I often come back to this video to reminisce on when my partner and I first fell for the mourning gecko.
@@ClintsReptiles I am in Charleston SC . I just seem to keep missing when people have them available. When I get my reptile room finished this spring I may just order some from an online breeder.
Wonderful video as always! In less than twenty minutes I went again from "I've never heard of this animal" to "how cool would it be to own 1, 2, or ... oh my how many of these things do we have now???"
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Clint's Reptiles I haven’t watched the video yet, you did state that they self reproduce right?
Right, so long as they get a little pretend action first.
House gecko care?
Hi, can you talk about Cameroon dwalf geckos?
Could you review the beaded lizard, please!!!!🙏🙏🙏
I'm planning on getting one, and there's just not a ton of information on these amazing lizard's.
'If what you want is an inexpensive army of genetically identical insect geckos' 😂😂😂
I didn't know I needed this but I might.
Begun, the clone wars have.
Execute order 66
"With my last 300 dollars, I can get one parrot, or 300 geckos... Women like swarms of things, right?"
@@ldobehardcore I can't speak for all women but if you also provide an adequate enclosure it's hard to think of a better gift than a bunch of geckos 🤷♀️
“You’ve got to find a mate, and that can be really hard” you don’t need to tell me that Clint ;-;
;-;
@098765 Craper yes. It's a long story
Haha same
Is it dangerous for you too?
It can be very dangerous venturing out to find a mate 😥
I mainly like geckos because of their cute little eye mlems
That's a very good reason.
Mlem mlem mlem I'm now addicted to that word! Thank you 🤗
I keep saying mlem in my head now 🤣😭
*reptile blep*
@@cosodesign8953 Same! It's so cute!😆
I love this man's personality. He's like a tiny gecko himself.
He is just a total cutie.
Tiny?! Isn't he like 6'2?
@@coldestfrost4973 shhh... he’s tiny.
@@coldestfrost4973 shhh his pp is 6’
@@jnetwork3232 kina smoll ngl
When my dad was stationed in Hawaii and I was 12 I used to catch mourning geckos all the time. In Hawaii they are practically under every loose piece of tree bark. At one point I had this giant 30 gallon glass aquarium I got from a garage sale for five bucks and I tricked it out. I had this 10 inch tall tiny waterfall style fountain I put in for a substitute water bowl. In the bottom I put dirt and wood chips from the garden as substrate and I used fresh fern leaves and pieces of palm fronds picked from the garden and pieces of fallen tree bark and sticks as hides. I fed them by catching tiny insects and putting small pieces of papaya, mangoes and other fresh fruits in a little bowl. At one point I think I had more than fifty of them in a thriving little colony and then my mom realized how many I had and made me release most of them back out into the garden and from then on I wasn't allowed to keep more than twenty.
Lucky lol
I just have a lot of frogs and toads(Which I absolutely love) around my area. I may find the occasional turtle or Gartner snake though. I'd have to look extremely hard to find a gecko or salamander where I live.
@@mpk6664 All we get in London are pigeons
mpk 666 same and I wish I had geckos near me
@@aych-rn Same it's kind of annoying we don't have anything cool here
I have some from Hawaii. They were stowaways from our trip to Hawaii 4 yrs. ago. Now we have 3 terrariums of them. I was so glad to read your reply. Because thats how I feel about them. The more you have the more you see and hear them.
All geckos are just adorable in my opinion
These got an extra scoop of adorable!
Agreed
Same but house gecko somewhat creep me out those gecko are pale and look like they're almost transparent
I love the analogies you use for describing lizards:
Mourning geckos - insects
Blue tongue skinks - potatoes
Green iguanas - ninjas
That one dislike must be a mourning gecko that got smooshed in handling.
It was an escaped baby that wondered onto someone's keyboard.
Please stop the annoying trend. First of all, your referring to a variable that is always changing as if it never changes, so your comment is instantly inaccurate. Just 3 days after your comment, the number was 11 times higher. Secondly, your claiming that anyone who disliked the video, disliked the video because of what you say, which is actually just your opinion, but you state it as a fact. In the end, it turns out to just be annoying and it isn't unique, because millions of people leave meaningless comments just like yours. Please break the trend and help stop others from doing it.
@@FusionDeveloper it's not that deep man
Fusion Developer dude chill
@@FusionDeveloper chill dude it's a joke
I accidentally left a small gap one night in the main mourning gecko tank and I thought for sure if anyone got out they were gone. Two days later the one that did get out was sitting on the mesh top waiting to get back in for breakfast. We were so lucky. She's a saucy thing.
Adorable, personable, curious, non aggressive, and they just keep cloning more of these wonderful little friends! What’s not to love? I fell head over heels for these little ones!!
They're magical!
They're independent geckos who need no man
That they are.
Feminists would love these
Technoraptor 777 they are the ultimate feminist gecko (komodos do it too, but they only make baby males)
I'm the 69th person who liked this post ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Yes, lil micro feminist dinosaurs ,lol
pint velociraptors .
I have a colony of these beautiful little Geckos. They are amazing to have. I started with 3 but my colony has grown to the point where I'm not 100% how many I have at any given time lol. They are super fast. Had an adult escape and found her 3 months later and reintroduced her to her colony. Have also found babies in my Crested Gecko tank when they have escaped also.These ladies are true escape artists and will sit on the back of food bowls and escape through gaps in doors when you open them. They also make adorable little chirps when there are a lot of them. I keep lots of different geckos (Lechie, Giant Day, Crestie, Gargoyle, Leo and Mourning) and they are all so awesome and different its amazing.
Oh my! You need a better lid! Thank you for sharing your experience.
Mine were the same. There were times where one of them just lived in the animal room for a few days until I could catch it.
Heyyo, was just wondering. Do you have 2 to spare. Any money I can save is best. Just wondering.
Are you sure it's the same adult? After all, if a second one escaped could you tell the difference.
"It can be really hard to find a male and its dangerous right?"
I've never felt more identified with a gecko in my entire life
You could use one of those massive Costco/Sams Club cheese ball containers for adults.
Bonus: They are big enough that your army of geckos could be massive!!!
There you go!
That's exactly what I was thinking of.
Mel Hawk bruh my sister is fat cause of buying them i don’t eat them my self
I actually love these. I think these are finally the geckos for me. I'm off now researching these but thanks for introducing them to me!!!!
The same thing happened to Jason :)
I started with 3 babies a year ago and now i have 6 of them with some eggs still waiting to hatch. They make cute squeeky sounds too , specially around evening and morning times. Highly recommend having some in your collection :)
The gift that keeps on giving!
what substrate do you use? Im getting some tommorow
@@thewizkid9228 I have them in a bioactive setup. The substrate is a mix of Arcadia earthmix, charcoal, sphagnum moss and leaf litter. For a more simple setup pay close attention to how Clint has done his enclosure. Sphagnum moss is a good substrate in such a setup. Hope this helps 😊
Domaes Braber can I use eco earth or paper towels?
@@thewizkid9228 I used paper towels when they were babies and had them separate in small containers so it does work. You can use eco earth too. They don't really need much just give them nice places to hide and keep a water dish and or mist every other day
*"You could cook them"*
My first thought: "wait, why would you eat them??"
Clint: "that's why I don't recommend a heat source"
*Ooooof* :')
Mourning Geckos: “I’m an independent individual, I don’t need no man!”
Us: **Dependent humans who need geckos**
Parthenogenesis. I know what it is and that some geckos do it, but I’ve never really learned about all the details in biology class. It blows my mind that creatures can reproduce this way!
Isn't life crazy, interesting, and wonderful??
I had a crested gecko do it before
Sounds like a good lizard for a classroom
It's crazy interesting. If only we could communicate with them better we could learn so much about nature vs nurture. I wonder if they have obvious personality quirks that are different from each other. So many questions, such an amazing ability.
Not only these little geckos can breed like this there is 3 other animals that can breed like a morning gecko: a scorpion,a certain population of whip tailed lizards,the biggest lizard in the world the komodo dragon and some stick bugs
I have been keeping (and, inevitably, producing ) these little geckos for years. Really fun for planted bioactive vivaria! I have two vivaria for adults and a smaller growout vivarium.
Aren't they just the best??
Clint's Reptiles they are!!
Yes, you tuned me into them. I don't know if I can ever forgive you. lol
ScooterFXRS 🤣
this... this sounds like a play set: "Grow your own canibal, clone army in jar!"
Sounds like something from Star Wars Episode II...
Clint's Reptiles beat me to it
This video was the reason I got Mourning Geckos, and I absolutely love them and I'm obsessed with them. Thanks, Clint!
Hi - quick question: Could you make a episode on Colombian Rainbow Boas. There is so little educational on them on TH-cam.
Yes, and Brazilians as well :)
Maybe Peruvians too...
Us: where’s the basilisk video?
Clint: *gone, reduced to atoms*
I have two now. And it's fascinating just how different their personalities are and how smart they can be. The youngest one had well demonstrated that she's a great little problem solver by the first day that I had her. She hooks her sheds onto plants and walks in the opposite direction to pull all the skin off in one move and has learned that I deliver the food so will chirp and glance and spiral around on the front of her container near her food bowl when it's empty to get my attention so I change it for fresh. She runs rings around most of my other lizards mentally and is still a juvenile.
Can't wait until she's an adult and can make her own pals. The older one doesn't like her at all.
Clint: "reproducing asexually is the best!"
Viruses: Yeah, let's go with that.
Bananas: 😭😭😭😭
Viruses go "let's get someone else to reproduce us, we can't be bothered being asexual"
@@Skittenmeow I was referring to the fact that if a member of a genetic group is susceptible to a particular virus, all the members in a genetic group are susceptible. Genetic variation is the best defense against viruses, so if all these guys are genetically the same, a virus could wipe out the entire species. This happened with the banana in the past.
@@dldarby82 oops my bad, please excuse my holiday sleep deprivation! I was only thinking of hijacked replication- lucky there are lots of other tasty banana varieties not yet impacted by the virus :)
@@Skittenmeow True, but I am always wondering what the bananas my parents ate tasted like, and if that's the source of banana flavoring in most foods. Because to me, banana flavor doesn't taste anything like bananas.
@@dldarby82 i remember making the banana ester in chemistry class at school (24 years ago) my teacher told me that's what is what is used for flavour in lollies etc - has a really strong overripe banana smell. Not sure if they use real banana now?
I love every single gecko in existence with my whole heart.
They curl their little tails like Cat Geckos, very cute.
That Castaway line had me cracking up Clint 😂
0:12
GoHerping: That's illegal
Absolutely amazing. In addition to showing us how to make the hatchling jar, can you show us the enclosure you keep your adults in? I want to see so badly.
7:15 He looked so horrified when saying "infinity fruit flys" lol
It sounds like these dudes are slowly going to take over the world...
Except for their problem of all being virtually identical. That's our only hope!
@@ClintsReptiles they're advantage shall be their downfall!! Also I was wondering could you do a video on the three toed skink that can have live young or lay eggs would be neat to hear you're thoughts on it
Gekko Bos generic term we use for everything in the uk
I love how the seccond enclousure link is specified for invertebrates! If that doesn't proove how TINY these rad mourning geckos are, I don't know what could.
Insect geckos!
Clint, you really remind me of Mr. Rogers, (not including all the possible controversial opinions) you’re so calming, you get so excited about the things you love, have a voice I love to listen to, and you describe things as ‘beautiful souls’ ‘endearing’ etc. You’re so wholesome!Please, never change!
Also, when clint said they "pretend" to mate
Harold, they're LESBIANS
This feels like it belongs in the "pretending to be boomers" Facebook page
Shut
Lesbian lizards ftw. But I'm pretty sure he's referring to the fact that they don't actually pass any genetic material to each other. They're exhibiting mating behavior, but not technically mating according to most definitions. 'mating' has a more specific meaning in biology than 'sexual activity' or 'sexual behavior', which would be accurate terms to refer to what these lizards are doing.
Me: sees two at the pet store and buys it
Two years later: Has fifty
Me again: 😑
Kyle William I started with one baby last June and now I’m up to 3 already lol
IGrocker I say to my dad: it’s the circle of life
My dad: turn the circle to a line
Me:😐
If I were too keep them in a exo terra with a lot of places to hide would it be OK for the babies would they escape or get eaten
I have stick insects and they’re the same way, parthenogenic
@@corvina_y depends, if it is very secure you can keep em fine. But they should be taken out and put in a small and secure enclosure
3:20 i wasn’t sure if he was talking about real human mates, or meeting mates as an animal but i guess that gave me my answer....
*im always terrified of random females biting my head off on the streets*
“Life...uh...finds a way.”
Boy do I hate being right all the time...
Jurassic Park but make it cute, tiny, and not dangerous. 🥺💙💙
Thank you so much for this video Clint. I love these little gals. I've been looking at setting up a bioactive terrarium with mouring geckos's and dart frogs at Josh's Frogs and your video just confirmed it for me. Thanks and keep up the wonderful work you do. Mike
Glad we could help :)
Excellent video. It was great to learn more about parthenogenesis!
I would love to see more technical genetics/breeding/evolution/biology educational videos from you! I know that some viewers may find the more complex academic content boring but for nerds like us it would be fantastic!
You are the only reptile TH-camr I know of with a PHD in their field. If anyone is going to put out videos like that it should be someone like you!!
Leos and today’s be like, screw the body plan we be fats little sausages
To which leaf tails said, "hold my bugs"...
And leachies said, "what's a body plan?"
Clint's Reptiles heh leaches be weird cute big things can’t say little. Tho compared to iguanas they ar elittle. But an iguana compared to a Monitor is little. And a monitor compared to an anaconda is little, but compare that to a croc, but then to a t red and diplodocus
@@ClintsReptiles Actually, leachies said, "you can explain a body plan to me when I finally feel like hopping in the shower and changing out of these pajamas." 😜
It only took me three weeks to find my own baby twin girl mourning geckos!!! Thanks so much for the recommendation they’re an adorable and lively addition to my herp family!
I have a colony and my sister always jokes that these are "teleportation geckos"
Whiptails were the only lizards I'd heard of that reproduced this way, now I wonder how many others do!
Lots. I think there are about 50 species that are exclusively asexual.
To be honest, I don't mind a lack of handle ability as much as I used to. Ever since I started keeping amphibians, in which for most of them handling is a big No-No, and the fact that I have a lot of fish which I obviously can't touch. I've come to appreciate just how fun observing the natural behavior works and feeding behavior of some species
Every time I see a Gecko I wanna cry at how adorable they look. I just love these guys so much, even the agressive Tokay Geckos are melting my heart.
You’ve gotta make little clone trooper outfits for them.
dude i loooove your videos, you’re like the bob ross of reptiles lol. i’ve been thinking about getting some morning geckos but i wasn’t 100% because of the babies but this just reminds me why i loved them in the first place! they’re so simple and amazing.
I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and for some reason these geckos just don’t exist here at all. Nobody ships them here either which just sucks haha. I’m planning on getting a couple from someone in Ontario, unfortunately it will cost me an arm and a leg for just 2 of them but I am hoping to sell them once they reproduce and I’m super excited to take on this project thanks to this channel. There are not many reptiles available here and I am interested in changing that one day! I hope this is a good first step. Thank you for being so stinkin rad Clint and crew!
Hows that going?
So let me get this straight, they’re perfect...but don’t touch them....I want it
I feel like I'd accidentally start a colony in my house if I tried to breed these
They would hunt any bugs in your house right? Sounds great to me.
So cool that you made a video of these gals. I have been dreaming of getting some for a while now. I have an old aquarium that I want to convert into a planted terrarium for them but I'm worried they will escape. 😬
That's their only bad feature. The good news is that, all least adults, will probably just turn up on the wall at night.
Yup, I need mourning geckos!!!! Our reptile room only has space for one or two more very small enclosures and our shelves aren't spaced out enough for heat light fixtures so a reptile that doesn't require them is absolutely perfect!
Where I live these geckos are found living in peoples’ houses. I’ve seen some in my house. We also have Madagascar gold dust geckos who are aggressive and I’ve seen them trying to eat Mourning geckos.
I remember I went to Pizza Hut with my family and outside the window was a bunch of mourning geckos just sitting on the window ledge. Never would’ve thought these geckos would be in the pet trade.
Thanks for explaining this so clearly I think I may have convinced my dad to allow me to buy one for my Birthday!
They are so cute and I will take good care!
I have some from Hawaii. They were stowaways from our trip to Hawaii 4 yrs. ago. Now we have 3 terrariums of them. I was so glad to watch your video. Because thats how I feel about them. The more you have the more you see and hear them. A very common lizard but an unknown one. Four years ago when I realized what I had I asked about the white phase. I was told they don't turn white. Mine do so I decided just to enjoy my 2. Finally I had to reduce my numbers and sold two. The buyer explained I have a rare pet outside Hawaii. That's one of my original females on my neck in my pic. Thanks again, Clint P.S. Love your groups work
I've got my colony in a large, live planted, bioactive Exo Terra arboreal viv. The edges are all taped up, the sides of the doors, everywhere. And I have a strip of bath sealant to take care of the gap where the doors don't quite meet in the center. The tape is all gold, so it looks quite good and I've had no escapees. There is still plenty ventilation because of the mesh lid. My only issue arises when I need to catch some for rehoming - that is not an easy task and requires at least two sets of eyes to make sure no one makes a quick exit! They'd not last long in winter in Scotland! Lovely wee things they are, I thoroughly enjoy watching and listening to them :)
Thanks, Clint! After seeing your videos on these tiny insect geckos, I did a little research and got 2 of them a few months ago and they have been so much fun to watch and so easy to care for-which has been great since my health isn’t very good at the moment. I named them Miss Piggy and Kermie because the bigger one has the habit of pigging out on the food and chasing Kermie around for a bit, chirping, when she comes out to eat. Kermie is less afraid of me than Miss Piggy and seems to like to hang out in the corner of their enclosure closest to me, which is nice because it means I get to watch her when she sheds and does her adorable eye licks. I have them in my bedroom so I can watch them and care for them easily when I’m not feeling well. It’s fun to listen to their chirps at night.
I just set up my exo-terra vivarium based off of your guide video and it looks great! Thanks for this video, I have decided I will either get a crested gecko, mourning gecko, or a whites tree frog! You have helped me so much Clink! I will 100% be donating as soon as I get the $50 I am owed.
Make sure you close any gaps in between glass like where the door is they can easily squeeze out
I saw these little guys in the wild all the time in my trip to Hawaii! I managed to catch one with just my hands and I called her John… I didn’t know they were all females with the same genes! They’re like little amoebas, it’s adorable!!!
John also jumped straight onto my face after lookin at me funny. It was an… experience. Hope John’s doing alright today.
Heeyyy Clint, can you talk about White Lined Gecko aka
(Skunk Gecko) and Five Lined Skink PLEASE..???!!!!
Sounds like a good plan!
I hope Clint does white lined geckos one day, they’re such neat and smart geckos! Even though they tend poop a lot...on you.
Ive seen people whove managed to handle them (with work of course) and they can be very good for it too (again, a LOT of work)
With all this content,Clint you are the "gift that keeps on giving"
**Geckos:** self.clone();
**Also Geckos:** self.execute_order_66();
I just got my first mourning gecko as a belated birthday present! I am so excited! Leafy Street has a great bunch of videos about them.
I was literally looking into these and yesterday I even was thinking that you should do a video on these!
Google gives us your search history. That's how we decide which videos to make. I hope that's not creepy...
Clint's Reptiles that’s fine, so when will you be making a video on blue waffles?
No time soon, but they sounded so good I had to have some myself.
Clint's Reptiles this is why you’re my favourite youtuber!😂😂
Keep making excellent breakfast suggestions and you'll be my favorite viewer 😁
This is one of the cutest videos this channel has ever produced!
"If what you want is an inexpensive army of genetically identical insect geckos..."
Finally! Just what I've been looking for! RISE MY ARMY! RISEEEEEEE
Boy that really sold me on getting chameleon geckos instead should I ever expand into geckos other than the magnificent leopard gecko! Mourning geckos are indeed stellar, but I don’t think I could deal with the pressure of protecting all those tiny lives during transport. Thanks for all the hard work this year. Finding y’all is one of my highlights of 2019. Season’s Greetings and all the best in 2020.
“Five of the BEST Parthenogenic Reptiles you could possibly get“
Sounds good to me, what about you?
Clint I'm sure you may have heard this but you sound very similar to Freddie Highmore and I love it thank you for great videos and quality videos at that!
I have never heard of a reptile reproducing asexually. This is so cool!
I'd like to see video on the Rosy Boa or African House Snake. If you wanted to do amphibians, the ribbed newt looks awesome. I just saw one a few weeks ago. I had never seen them in USA.
5:04 I think that's maybe a bit low score given you gave the same score to a venomous snake (rattlesnake) that you can never handle directly without equipment or it can kill you. Sure you are the expert, but I think they should get at least one score higher than a rattlesnake based on the fact that you can hold it directly, I dont doubt its diffucult
I got one of these about 2 months ago together with my dart frogs in a fairly large bio-active jungle vivarium. I just havn't seen it again since, too much jungle to hide in. The frogs are doing great so I guess the gecko should be fine as well.
Hell yeah these are the best lizard. I've had all kinds and nothing has captured my interest more than my little cloning mourning geckos. I started with two and they turned into....a lot...made enough money from selling their hatchlings that I bought some dart frogs to live with them, now here is one thing I have learned if you want to try this mix; provide lots of tubes that stay dry inside and do not get directly misted. The hatch-rate of eggs plummeted when I added a misting system, until I figured out it was cause the eggs were getting wet.
Clint and the morning geckos just over here advocating for the ace community.
Nah, these geckos do have 'sex' with each other, even though it makes no sense for them to need that. I suppose some other parthenogenic animals really are asexual, but these ones, if anything, show how deeply ingrained in animal behaviour sexuality is.
@@dumupad3-da241 true, but we gotta get our representation somewhere. Besides asexuality is a spectrum and there's no reason a person can't identify as both ace and a lesbian... unless they're a guy, that would make the lesbian part a bit difficult...
Two weeks ago I bought my first 4 baby morning geckos. Im soo glad that you made this stinkin rad video on mourning geckos!! I value your opinion and I know now that I've made an awesome choice! I love these little gals already and I can't wait for eggs.
They're so special. Enjoy!
I suppose this pertains to any parthenogenetic species. How do you keep from being overrun with geckos?
One point (im no expert but from what ive read on these in particular) is that when you have two they stimulate each other to start reproducing, so in theory if you just get one you shouldnt get nearly as many, if any
Gamecube Controller I suppose the question should really be, how long after you separate them until they stop producing?
Feed them to lizard eating snakes
You could just choose to not incubate the eggs
@@ItsMasonMoney he literaly said parthenogenetic.
well now I want some mourning geckos. thank you Clint. your channel is amazing
You're very welcome. Thank you so much!
:/ Do you have like a website or page that you can fill out the five categories and see what you get? Like say I boop 4 Handability and 3 care, etc. I like your videos but I can't watch them all on my work breaks. I'm trying to find a good pet for my small rented space.
Edit: If you make one can it link another page or video(s) about it's care?
I think the mourning gecko is pretty ok fora small place.
This or the rose-hair-tarantula...
I’ve been waiting for this! Just recently picked up my little one Io, such personality for tiny geckos
I adore them!
Lol i love you guys :) you make me laugh and enjoy learning so much!!!
That comment makes me so happy!
I am fast becoming a fan of your channel. Your obvious love and respect for our ectothermic friends is contagious. Could you please do a video of Flying Geckos (Ptychozoon kuhli) ? I would be very interested in your thoughts on them. Thanks for all your info and the excellent work!
Yes! I'm so glad you found us.
he would be the best science teacher
9:40 think there where cases where my parents dog started lactating when we had kittens. without puppies, this is on another level though.
Who are they mourning?
a crystal clod from Hufflepuff the loss of males
@@rp101aquatics6 haha
the male geckos
The liberty of human females who need to mate if they want an offspring
They're so tiny and adorable, I love them! I want geckos so bad, but I'd like a gecko I can handle, so if I ever get them, these would probably be a second pick for sure.
Love your beard Clint.
Thank you! It's getting a bit out of hand.
These geckos are adorable! We just got some where I work and they are just little babies. I had to catch one for a customer, and that was more nerve racking than any other reptile I've ever had any interaction with. They are so tiny and so cute!
Do the adults raise the babies by themselves or do I need to do something because I don’t know anything about breeding.
The babies raise themselves. Adults will try to eat then.
Well except with crocodilians and some lizards, also most turtles won’t really try to eat their babies
I recommend cohabbing mourning geckos with dart frogs; as long as the enclosure can facilitate arboreal behavior, then it should be appropriately humid and warm for both mourning geckos and dart frogs. Best of all, since dart frogs do not have toe pads and mourning geckos and fruit flies do, then mourning geckos can get the fruit flies that escape the dart frog(s).
You never said why they are called "mourning" geckos! Who or what died that the entire species is still wearing black in honor of whatever??
P Offutt I think I read somewhere that it’s because there are no males, and the person who discovered them thought they were “mourning” the loss of their husbands.
"No, that's impossible. There is no unauthorized breeding on this island- all of the dinosaurs here are female, we make sure of it."
"Yeah, but you used mourning gecko DNA to repair that of these dinosaurs, soooooo...."
Do one about changeable garden lizards or the perentie
I do love both of those. I'll see if I can find either around here. Calotes are so beautiful!
I have, and love mourning geckos. I’m so glad you did a video on them, fantastic to watch, so active and fun. So fun to own considering their tiny body size. They hunt like crazy and feeding time is very owner rewarding, fruit flies don’t stand a chance!
Ah, a perfect soldier to breed to bring fourth my world domination
BRUH
I want an army too
I love my 3 girls so much, and Clint's Reptiles and this video are the reason I am a mourning gecko breeder today. I recently officially made my first sale at a local reptile store where I get my supplies and while I miss the babies, I know they'll go on to deposit their own little gifts in someone else's tank. I have 5 babies and 15 eggs and I can't wait for them to hatch. Thank you so much for what you do, I often come back to this video to reminisce on when my partner and I first fell for the mourning gecko.
I am still trying to find some available near me lol. I am sure I will eventually find them .
Where are you located? Best of luck.
@@ClintsReptiles I am in Charleston SC . I just seem to keep missing when people have them available. When I get my reptile room finished this spring I may just order some from an online breeder.
Wonderful video as always! In less than twenty minutes I went again from "I've never heard of this animal" to "how cool would it be to own 1, 2, or ... oh my how many of these things do we have now???"
The same thing happened to Jason while we filmed this :)