Red crested gecko escape!
share with the world. This one in particular is about Daniel, the eldest of the two boys. Throughout his childhood years he has begged for lizards, snakes, frogs, turtles and anything else within those species that makes mothers scream when they get out of their cage. The answer was always" No! No! No! wait till your're grown". At 20 he moved to that first apartment, just he and his 2 red Crested Geckos, Bud and Weiser. Their home was the typical 20 gallon aquarium with lighted hood, warming rock, crickets and all. Getting them to the apartment was no challenge, cleaning their cage solo was a differnt story. He didn't have all the basics that his mother had at home, such as another tank to put them in and someone else to help him while he cleaned the dirty one. He knew what to do, he would put them in his suitcase, that nice large piece of luggage that his mother bought him for the senior trip. After cleaning awhile, going to the store, cleaning awhile, watching TV, cleaning awhile, running to get crickets, he was finally finished. Now, to put Bud and Weiser in the clean, fresh tank. There's Weiser and now to get Bud. Where's Bud? Bud had escaped, somehow, he was gone. An entire, move all the furniture, go through drawers, apartment search was done. Still no Bud. Four months went by without one sighting of Bud. Gone forever in our minds, until I went to help stock my starving son's refrigerator, while he was at work. I think I was putting lunch meat in the deli bin, when out from under the refrigerator came this dark brown almost black red crested Gecko scrurring in between my feet. Bud had returned, a completely different color and somewhat thinner, but he had returned.
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