- You may be here for education,
but I am here to rant
about leachianus geckos.
If you know me at all, I, for some reason,
don't have a strong liking
for arboreal geckos.
Something about them just
really gets on my nerves.
I like terrestrial geckos,
like leopard geckos,
and African fat tailed geckos,
and I like other lizards,
and even arboreal snakes,
and stuff, I think they're pretty cool.
But arboreal geckos, they
just get on my nerves.
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They're kind of annoying to handle,
they're oftentimes finicky,
and when they're not finicky,
and not jumping around,
they're just kind of boring.
Now you might say,
well, leachianus geckos,
or New Caledonian geckos,
because I guess they're
from New Caledonia, I
don't know where that is,
they are the largest gecko on earth.
And this is not an adult, they
get a lot larger than this,
probably the length of my forearm or so.
And this is basically a baby
leachie and it's already
about the size of a crestie
gecko that's full size.
So you might be like, "But they're so big.
"How can you not like them?"
It's not that big.
Sure, they're the biggest gecko,
but they're not the biggest
lizard, or the biggest reptile,
or the biggest animal.
They're just the biggest gecko.
What's so cool about that?
Also, we just get random
animals sent to us by people
that can't keep 'em and some
leachianus have come through
and I'm just, I haven't
been a fan of any of them.
This one's actually my
girlfriend's, but she's not home,
so I stole it to make fun of it.
And speaking of selling
and just dealing with them,
they are expensive.
Like, see, he's already jumping.
Wow, it's so cool, he jumped onto me.
No, it's kind of
stressful, because now I..
Now I don't know where he is.
You people find this fun?
Not to mention they do drop their tails,
like many other geckos,
so if I take a wrong move
and pull his tail by accident,
it's gonna pop off, and
it's not coming back,
'cause they don't grow their tails back
like terrestrial geckos,
like leopard geckos,
who in fact grow them
back sometimes even cooler
than they first started.
Anyway, getting back on
track, they're so expensive,
and half the time you can't even see them,
'cause they blend in
with their surroundings,
and they can change color
to match those surroundings.
So if I want to see this
gecko in its enclosure,
it's, takes like five
minutes to actually find 'em.
I don't know if this is a
male or female, honestly.
I think it's...
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I have no idea.
I guess it's a male, but
I don't, I don't know.
Anyway, when it comes to look,
there's not a ton of variation.
Most leachies are gonna
look pretty similar.
They do, I guess, have different morphs
and people breed them
to look even fancier,
but that just drives
the price up even more.
I personally would prefer to
put that money somewhere else,
into a different animal,
or a different enclosure.
Now I do think their
enclosures are pretty cool.
I...
I love tropical enclosures.
I like arboreal enclosures
that are basically taller,
'cause arboreal means that they climb,
they spend there time
in trees and high up,
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but the animal itself in
it, well you might as well,
not even put it in if you're,
A, barely gonna be able
to see it, B, I don't like
handling it because they're just,
as you see he's jumping around everywhere.
And I know they're not all
like this individually,
but in general, geckos just
don't feel like an animal,
to handle, like, it just feels weird.
They're little claws are very sharp.
They're not as sharp as crestie claws,
which those are annoying,
and if you have any sort
of like body hair at all,
like he gets stuck in
my arm hair so easily,
and it kind of pulls them
and it doesn't feel that comfortable.
And he...
Now he's stuck to you, now
he's stuck to your ears.
How does that make you feel?
It wouldn't make me feel
very good, but meanwhile,
people are still like,
"I want a leachianus,
"they're the biggest gecko ever.
"They're so cool."
Now yeah, looking at him individually,
he has a pretty cool pattern.
He looks like a mix of
moss and leaves, I guess,
and he does change a lot.
If you go look at him,
her, I have no idea,
anytime of the day and she's gonna look...
I just keep changing
the sex back and forth.
She's gonna look different every time,
and now she's adamant to
stay on this microphone,
and it's like they never learn.
If you want a cool big lizard,
why not get something that can
at least learn some commands,
know who you are, remember
you better than a little gecko
that won't stop jumping on everything.
What about a Tegu, or even a monitor.
I'd prefer to get another Savannah monitor
than an arboreal gecko.
If you're gonna make me
get an arboreal gecko,
it would not be a leachie, for the reasons
stated previously, I would probably
just get a crested gecko.
They're smaller, they take up
less space, they're cheaper,
they're more widely available,
and at least it stands out,
and they have a lot more morphs
for you to pick from.
They have such a bizarre body shape.
They almost look semi-aquatic in a way.
Like think an alligator, how
like low down their profile is,
'cause you kind of want, as an alligator,
you want to be able to really
stay close to the water,
not be too noticeable,
blend in pretty well.
And I guess this gecko does all the same,
the difference is, it does it vertically,
and sticks to the sides
of trees or any surface
it finds that happens
to kind of look like it.
I think, are they insect?
No, they're not insectivores, are they?
When we had them in, I wasn't
the one that cared for them.
"They're naturally omnivorous,
I didn't actually know that,
"and spend their time on
the islands of New Caledonia
"eating crickets, roaches,
small mammals or lizards,
"fruit, various nectars."
Yeah, so I guess they're so
big that they can actually,
that's kind of cool
honestly, I didn't know that.
Okay, we have like one
cool thing about them,
well two, if you include the fact
that they're the largest
gecko and that is,
that their diets are very, very varied,
and they can eat some pretty big stuff.
Apparently he'll eat
banana out of your hands,
so I'll try that for some clips.
I don't know if we have any bananas,
but the thing about it
being the largest gecko
is, is that really something
to boast over, like I said?
Like personally, I think
the second largest gecko
is cooler and I think
that's the Tokay gecko.
Hopefully I got that right.
Tokays are known to be very
angry, extremely defensive,
always upset, and although
people have managed
to tame down Tokay geckos,
I think that their attitudes
are pretty cool, and it
shows a lot of variation
between them, compared to other animals.
Because kind of like with my
Savannah monitor, Bonnabelle,
people say, I should get rid of her
'cause I can't handle her,
but I don't need to be able
to handle every single one
of my animals, which now
I can actually handle her,
but it gives you more unique variation.
And Tokay geckos, not only
are they a lot more feisty
and that keeps them kind of interesting,
it keeps your adrenaline going a bit,
but they also look cooler to me.
They're more colorful,
more bluish grayish,
got really cool big eyes, and
just overall their body shape
is really cool.
Leachies, they're so wrinkly,
and even when they're not overweight,
they just look lumpy and
weird, and feeling wise,
I don't care for how they feel.
It just feels like a, like,
no comment on how it feels.
Let's just research leachies.
Let's see what else we get.
Leachianus gecko.
"They were first
discovered in 1829 in New,"
okay first of all, where's New Caledonia?
"It's a special collective,
collectivity of France
"governed under Noumea Accord,
"located in the southwest Pacific ocean."
Hmm.
I only passed French because I cheated.
I would've gotten an F, So I
have a little personal gripe
against France, and their language.
Well, looking the gecko
over, its eyeballs,
they're kind of cool, but
I don't, they personally
don't stand out to me.
I prefer pretty much any other gecko eye.
They have those weird little ears,
it just looks like holes
drilled into the sides
of their head.
Unlike leopard geckos,
you can actually see
through a leopard geckos
head, through their ears,
but the leachie, you can not.
Probably 'cause they're so thick skulled.
There's not much to it.
I just, people like gawk over these,
but it's just it's, it just
looks like moving moss.
I don't know.
So basically, usually
I get an animal for one
of two reasons I guess.
A, they're a cool animal to handle,
or B, they're a cool display animal.
And this one does not have very good aim.
It just tried to run up
on the desk, but it missed
and I had to catch it.
Display wise, you're not
gonna be able to see it,
unless you really look for it.
It's like, "Where's
Waldo?" every time you want
to see your own animal,
and then handling wise,
yeah, like I said, there's gonna be some
that are really easy
to handle and this one
is not one of them.
So, would my opinion
change if I got to handle
an adult leachianus gecko?
I don't know, but it
sounds like it's claws
would just be sharper and it
would just be overall a larger
nuisance to deal with.
Maybe I'm wrong.
I think the other one
was bigger than this one
that we sold already, I
can't remember exactly,
but they kind of look the same
and I can't even tell them apart.
Like, that's the leachianus gecko.
Should you get one?
I don't know, if you want.
I do think the diet's
cool, I will admit that,
that they can eat such large
foods and such varied things.
I think the enclosures are pretty cool,
'cause I'm a fan of that tropical style,
but I can eat the cool foods myself.
I can get a large mammal if I
want, I mean a small mammal.
(laughing) I'm so bad, I'm doing so bad.
I can eat a small mammal myself if I want,
and I can just set up a tropical enclosure
without having to stick a many hundreds,
to $1,000 plus animal in the center of it.
And that's my rant on leachianus geckos.
Why do you like 'em?
Why do you dislike 'em?
Do you agree?
Am I incorrect?
Let me know in the comments of this video,
and maybe I'll read them and
get in a flaming argument
with you over New Caledonian geckos.
That's it.
I still have yet to find
an arboreal gecko I like.
My current ranking is
probably Tokay gecko,
and then I think gargoyle
geckos area kind of cool.
So I'd say Tokay, gargoyle,
crestie, and then leachie.
Leachie would be above
crestie if they just weren't
so expensive and you
could actually see them
in their enclosures, 'cause cresties suck.
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Goodbye.
What was this video?
I don't know.
I'm in a ranty mood.
Leachie.
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