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RE: House Gecko Help Required!

No to the vacuum cleaner!

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Above, the nocturnal indoor thick-toed geckos and below, the diurnal outdoor dwarf geckos

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The very large huntsman spiders come inside to hunt them, my cats love catching and mutilating them and we also get sad little squashed corpses in the doors but I just live with mine and enjoy them and their little gecko-turds. Perhaps a cat would reduce your numbers

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I think I would prefer the geckoes and their poo to a cat, but that's just me! We have huntsman spiders but I've never noticed them hunting geckoes - I'll keep an eye open for that. I'm not serious about the vacuum cleaner although I have wondered about making a large pooter (used to catch insects by sucking them up) but I doubt my lungs are strong enough.

The large huntsman spiders do it at night when nobody's looking

By coincidence look what I found in the kitchen this morning! I guess the adult geckoes eat the smaller huntsmen but the full-grown huntsmen eat the smaller geckoes. With a point in the middle where they're not quite sure what to do.

Damn, it's war in there!