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What to do about gecko (?) running down bathtub drain?
I live in Florida. I noticed 1 1/2 inch gecko in the bathtub last week, I let it be. We are mellow about the critters down here. I just walked into my bathroom right now and noticed a green tail scurrying down my bathtub drain when I put the light on. I am a bit freaked out. My question is this -- could my bathtub drain be being used as some sort of entry route to my house for geckos and other assorted lizards? Should I just assume this is the same fellow as last week who happened to hide when I turned my bathroom lights on and managed to grow a bit in the past seven days? Or should I just ignore this reptilian incident as the price I have to pay for living in Florida, the land of eternal sunshine?
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- EddiLv 72 years ago
FYI, I was able to catch the little critter (after two weeks he had slowed down) with some bathroom tissue and let him outside. I thought he was half dead but when he was out the door he ran fast, so I feel better. BTW a bullfrog the size of a man's fist made his way into the shower two years ago-- it totally freaked my mom out. I was able to get him with a towel and let him outside. My neighbor found an iquana in her garage last week. Florida is fun.
- ?Lv 72 years ago
They live around the house and will come inside if you leave a door or window open. One of the strange things around here is that the bugs are attracted to the windows at night by the light inside. The gecko stake out an area of the window and hunt the bugs. Each gecko has an area and will fight the other geckos if they invade its territory on the window, and the biggest gecko gets the best spot. They are surprising good at catching a bug when it gets close. You can stand next to the window and see all of this through the glass. Ever now and then there is a thump, and it is the owl grabbing a gecko off of the window. It can see the geckos.
