What are the hygiene problems at gecko farms?

Geckos like to inhabit quiet, clean and hygienic environments, and are relatively sensitive to filthy, moldy and foul-smelling environments. If the rearing environment is unclean, unhygienic, has a bad smell or stale air, it will at best affect reproduction, and at worst cause disease or even death. Therefore, the following aspects should be done well in daily rearing and management work:

1. Keep the activity area clean and hygienic. When rearing indoors or in plastic greenhouses, the indoor or greenhouse hygiene should be cleaned frequently to keep the interior in a consistently clean and hygienic state. Trapped insects that have died without being eaten should be removed promptly and must not be allowed to accumulate and rot and stink. The water pool in the activity area should be cleaned frequently, and clean drinking water should be replaced frequently to maintain drinking water hygiene.

2. Indoor air should be fresh. If rearing indoors, be sure to ensure fresh indoor air. In summer, autumn and spring, when the temperature is above 13°C, rearing can be carried out without heating. At this time, windows should be opened frequently for ventilation to keep the indoor air fresh. In early spring and late autumn, when the indoor temperature is below 13°C, heating should be provided to allow them to hibernate safely. When heating, doors and windows should be closed to prevent heat loss. At this time, attention should also be paid to ventilation and air exchange to keep the indoor air fresh. The specific method is: on sunny days from 1 to 4 p.m. each day, when the outdoor temperature is relatively high, open a small window for ventilation and air exchange. When the indoor temperature is 2-3°C below the controlled temperature, stop ventilation, close the small window, and heat so that the indoor temperature returns to the controlled temperature as quickly as possible. In addition, some shade-tolerant plants should be grown indoors. During photosynthesis, plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, which can regulate the freshness of indoor air.

3. Prevent pesticide poisoning. Geckos are relatively sensitive to pesticides. When pesticides are used in rural areas for household rearing, special attention should be paid: when purchasing pesticides for one's own household, they must be properly stored, and pesticides should not be mixed in the courtyard, so as to avoid pesticide odors drifting into the gecko rearing room. If neighbors use pesticides, the doors and windows of the rearing room should be closed in time to prevent pesticide odors from entering. If insects are trapped as gecko bait, trapping insects can be stopped for 2-4 days at this time, so as to avoid poisoned insects being eaten by geckos and causing poisoning.

4. Check frequently. The gecko farm should be patrolled frequently. If unhealthy individuals are found, they should be isolated in time. On the one hand, they should be treated promptly; on the other hand, this avoids infecting other individuals. During inspection, note the following: healthy individuals are agile, active, gregarious, and like to live in crevices in the upper layers; sick individuals do not like to move, like to stay alone in crevices in bright places or lower places, respond slowly to external stimuli, have weakened suction power in the suckers on the soles of their limbs, and are anorexic. Once diseased individuals are found, corresponding prevention and control measures should be adopted immediately to prevent the condition from worsening and causing losses.