I think that if the owner did care about the animals he wouldn't let the manager of his store not care for them properly. Probably the manager in the second store does care but the owner doesn't. Still wouldn't give them my business. If I have a problem with one of his stores, I have a problem with them all, the ownership!
Here's a day gecko link I ran across, kind of interesting.

Here is a link that might be useful: PHELSUMANIA

Good link! Thanks!

And you're probably right about the owner not caring but the manager of that one store location caring. I didn't really think of it that way. I wasn't going to buy the gecko from them anyways though. Probably cheaper and healthier at a reptile expo. There should be one next April near me.

Good luck! I hope you have success in finding some CB Phelsuma at the Reptile expo! It is sometimes hit or miss at the reptile show here, but there have been some beautiful CB babies that I have seen. They sure get snapped up in a hurry.

I can't say that I know anything about their care, other than the very basics that you can get from any site, so I'll just sit back and enjoy the responses from others. By the way, it was nice to see you posting on KS, SA!

Most of my reptile experience comes from herpetology class in college. Sadly there's not much in the way of geckos in Oklahoma. Funny thing is there's a tropical gecko, the mediteranean gecko, that has a breeding population on the campus of OU in and on the zoology building. Seems a grad student's project escaped and now they live off the bugs around the lights and overwinter in the walls and ceiling of the old building. Very cool little guys and not easy to catch!

My only other experience was with a Tokay gecko. DO NOT...i repeat...DO NOT...make the mistake of getting one of these. I'm sure they're cute when babies but when the grow up they are vicious! They are really strong and have a bite like a snapping turtle. I'll spare you the details of when we fed a 'pinky' to the classroom tokay. yikes!

What about skinks? We have lots of them in Oklahoma and they can therefore take extremes of temps and conditons plus they're really cool.

I forgot to mention...i was bitten by a skink during a test in herp class. Tried to pick it up to identify it and the lil' sucker bit me!!! I just took a guess (wrong) and moved on to the next animal. It didn't hurt very bad and didn't break the skin...but scared me!!

LOL, Mr. B! I've heard about Tokay geckos, so don't worry, I won't be getting one!

Homer: are they really that hard to find? What are the prices you have seen them for? And what does CB mean? I'm new to all of the lizard terminology. =) Apparently there are a million different colour patterns for leopard geckos, and some people seem to know them all! While I have no idea what they are talking about. . . =) And forgive my density here, but what do you mean 'KS'? I have tried to figure out what this could stand for, to no avail! Give me a break, it's almost midnight, and past my bedtime! =)

CB = captive bred. Second best way to go when acquiring animals. First is adoption from a rescue league of someone else's unwanted impulse buy.
KS = Kansas. OK, probably not what he meant, but it DOES stand for that. For you poor Canadians, Kansas is one of the fifty states.

I'm sure he meant kingsnake (forum)...at least that was my guess.

day gecko's are awesome i've always wanted to get some, i think i remember hearing that they like snake plants (sanseviera), and although they might be too small for large crickets, i'm sure you could feed them smaller crickets as adults, other than that i dont know much about them.

Yeah, I figured out the acronyms last night before I fell asleep. I'm also thinking KS means Kingsnake forums. And yes, I know that it is also the short form for Kansas, and yes, I know that Kansas is a state. =P Well, once again I am up late. This time it is insomnia. I had a mocha dessert, and the coffee in it was not decaf. I never drink coffee, so it is probably affecting me more than it would others of you. The werid thing is, I'm actually tired, especially my eyes, but not my mind. Sucks. . .

Yup, CB=Captive Bred, KS=Kingsnake forums. I won't say that the day geckos are hard to find, but they tend to go rather quickly at shows . . . especially when they are CB (the only way I would personally purchase one).

Oh totally, I always do my very best to buy captive bred animals! It's not really neccessary to catch them in the wild anymore, since we know how to breed them. I just hope the marine fish industry can hurry up and learn how to breed all the popular marine fish. . .

Another really good pet Gecko is the crested gecko (Rhacodactylus ciliatus), they come in many colour forms and are very docile. They are an aboreal species but are much calmer than Day geckos, they might be worth a try and are available at reprtile shows and many petstores and breeders in Canada. They eat the same basic diet as Day geckos as well.