I am on a high floor of an older condo building.

Every year about this time I see tiny little gekkos (tookays?) grow up into bigger ones, and thus every year I find turds that progressively go from tiny to annoyingly large.

These are not the lovely huge full-on multi-coloured gekkos, but just those plain little things - maybe grow to a couple of inches. I classify them at the same 'safety and annoyance level' as mice...

Is there some great technique to either get rid and/or to keep them from coming back

I would get a cat, but not allowed

I have thought that mouse sticky paper might work. Bait?

And I am considering shooting some harmful chemical at them from a spray bottle (bleach?).

I don't like killing, but I hate lizard shit in my food...

(I kill mice and mosquitoes too).

Anyone? Anything? Thanks.

Lasers? Poison gas? Ultrasonics? Some Thai person with fast hands?!? 38 Magnum???

I love looking at gecko crap and taking great pleasure from knowing it used to be a mosquito

If you have them around it means they have enough mosquitoes to live on - leave them alone, they are doing you a favour!

A gun would be over kill surely, maybe an air rifle, then you have to clean the dead gekko with the crap as well. Maybe there are some young boys in your building that you can pay to remove them.

Lasers? Poison gas? Ultrasonics? Some Thai person with fast hands?!? 38 Magnum???

here's a solution:

Go and see a doctor, you have a serious problem.

Lame. It is easy to keep lizard shit out of food.

I needed a laugh for today thank you for it

MOVE if they bother you so much, as mentioned above they are doing you a favor and I have loads in my house and they are Welcome guests that saves me having to use toxic Mosquito spray

Indiscriminately killing something for no good reason is WELL just not Jai dee

DK

I occasionally get a run of these, but seldom more than one at a time. Then it's a fun challenge to catch, photograph and evict.

It's not just mosquitoes they eat. I like to study insects but not live with them, so I have strict policy of keeping things clean, after I moved in the ants and flies eventually gave up and the geckos have no reason to come calling or to stay. They are also attracted to exterior lights at night, so don't leave the balcony or bathroom light on unnecessarily etc.

But shooting them... apart from anything else, pellets - let alone bullets - will damage walls and fixtures. Can't see that helping your relationship with the landlord or your resale value.

Edited November 20, 201114 yr by phaethon

Congratulations, you have a gun!! You're a big boy now!!

Simple capture and relocation might be easiest

Congratulations, you have a gun!! You're a big boy now!!

but......He did not say a gun did he?

I am considering shooting some harmful chemical at them from a spray bottle (bleach?).

Edited November 20, 201114 yr by flying

Congratulations, you have a gun!! You're a big boy now!!

but......He did not say a gun did he?

I am considering shooting some harmful chemical at them from a spray bottle (bleach?).

No he did not say gun he said

"38 Magnum"

Actually the question was one that he has the answer for.

How does he expect us to know if he can hit a gecko with a gun. For all I know he can not hit the broad side of a barn with one a gun.

Edited November 20, 201114 yr by hellodolly

Go and see a doctor, you have a serious problem.

I don't see how a doctor would be any better at shooting Gekkos than anyone else...

I love looking at gecko crap and taking great pleasure from knowing it used to be a mosquito

If you have them around it means they have enough mosquitoes to live on - leave them alone, they are doing you a favour!

Unlike most of the posters here I seem to be able to keep mosquitoes out of my house. I can't keep those f'n geckos out though.

They shit all over my curtains,bedding, cars, everything. You call that a favour?

The OP asked for any known ways of getting rid of them whatever that me be.

As usual on TV he was denigrated for asking a simple question and the semi literates who inhabit this forum attack him personally.

I love looking at gecko crap and taking great pleasure from knowing it used to be a mosquito

If you have them around it means they have enough mosquitoes to live on - leave them alone, they are doing you a favour!

Spot on. Anything that eats mosquitoes, spiders and other nasties full time has a place in my home any time.

Get a cat. they disappared in no time...

use a broom to wack em dead, same as they do in hotels and resorts.

good luck!

I advise the catch-and-eject from house formula if your hands are fast enough. I was tired of all the poops everywhere too and managed to catch n eject just under 10 of them about 2 months ago.... then noticed more bugs in the kitchen area and around lights.... so have resolved to coexist. I would rather not, but it seems necessary.

As far as taming them a bit, a friend of mine bought one of those silly wooden guns in the Walking Street that shoots rubber bands. It seems the geckos learn where they face consequences and now stay clear of the ceiling and light over his porch and living room hangout areas. So... now no dropping geckos and no gecko droppings in two key areas.

I thought it was considered "good luck" to have a few gekkos in the house. Certainly, they help control insects.

We're always trying to stop our cat from killing them.

A 38 magnum definitely.

After it vaporizes the gecko, the ricocheting bullet bouncing around the concrete walls of your abode will surely eliminate an over-reactive perpetrator as well.

Congratulations, you have a gun!! You're a big boy now!!

but......He did not say a gun did he?

I am considering shooting some harmful chemical at them from a spray bottle (bleach?).

No he did not say gun he said

"38 Magnum"

Yeh, a 38 magnum is a bra size or a big bottle of champaign, isn't it?

I love looking at gecko crap and taking great pleasure from knowing it used to be a mosquito

If you have them around it means they have enough mosquitoes to live on - leave them alone, they are doing you a favour!

Thanks - but I have very few mosquitoes this high up. I don't know what they eat here - but I don't think it is mossies...

If I thought they were doing me a favour, I would leave them alone!

A gun would be over kill surely, maybe an air rifle, then you have to clean the dead gekko with the crap as well. Maybe there are some young boys in your building that you can pay to remove them.

Actually, an air rifle might be worse than a gun. More likely to ricochet than a real gun, which would just put a big hole in the wall...

Fast handed young boys eh? I might ask downstairs - thanks.

Lasers? Poison gas? Ultrasonics? Some Thai person with fast hands?!? 38 Magnum???

here's a solution:

I do not know how you got that photo of me!!!! I kept missing the gekkos, and taking out apartments across the road

Go and see a doctor, you have a serious problem.

Yes I am sick. Must be from the gekko shit in my food

Lame. It is easy to keep lizard shit out of food.

Really!???

When you find it in bowls and plates?

When it ends up on cooking surfaces?

When there are droppings in your kitchen sink?

Thanks though.

MOVE if they bother you so much, as mentioned above they are doing you a favor and I have loads in my house and they are Welcome guests that saves me having to use toxic Mosquito spray

Indiscriminately killing something for no good reason is WELL just not Jai dee

DK

So if you had a problem with mice eating into your rice bags and bread and other dry goods, you would move?

I had mice. I killed them. Didn't want to. Didn't want to die for eating poisonous shit. Didn't consider it indiscriminate killing either.

I don't consider it indiscriminate killing when I swat a mosquito neither.

But thanks.

I occasionally get a run of these, but seldom more than one at a time. Then it's a fun challenge to catch, photograph and evict.

...

They are also attracted to exterior lights at night, so don't leave the balcony or bathroom light on unnecessarily etc.

I wouldn't mind if I could keep them out on the balcony. They just seem to migrate to the kitchen (which I do keep clean).

Congratulations, you have a gun!! You're a big boy now!!

I am a big boy - even if I don't have a gun. I have a big motorcycle, so I know everything else on me is big...

I needed a laugh for today thank you for it

Thanks - was it the big gun that made you laugh? Cheers.