Planning to get a House Gecko for a roach problem?
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A lot of websites offer the advice of using a house gecko to get rid of roaches, and I was thinking about this. I live in Philadelphia, and some of the houses around me suffer from a roach problem as well.
So I was planning on getting a gecko, letting it loose in my kitchen, and sitting back while the sexy lizard takes care of everything.
My biggest fears is the gecko growing huge, having to actually treat it as a pet (rather than a tool for terminating roaches), and coaxing the rest of the household on seeing this as a good idea.
Is it a good idea?
Answers:
Your going to have to get like 100 geckos for that plan to have even a little chance to work.
Geckos are pretty lazy unless they are hungry.
Also you might want to think about getting leopard geckos because they cant climb walls and stuff like all other geckos.
Oh and when you have to catch your geckos watch out for their tails, that and they don't like to be caught.
They dont get very big maybe up to 10 inches long.
Also they are easy pets to take care of.
So good luck.
If geckos prevented roaches... there would be no roaches in Texas.
Sorry... it won't work.
Fumigate the Apartment
Sure... the gecko will eat your roaches and crap all over your kitchen. Then you'll hope you know where he is hiding!
House geckos don't get huge at all. They stay pretty small. So small that on some night you may not even see it and step on it.
And by the way, all the gecko may eat is a couple a day, or none while they molt (every 2 weeks) which is the reason why geckos aren't the solution to roaches in Texas!
Do this: bomb each room in the house with fogger cans. Then get a gecko as a house pet.
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