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AA3JY · 30-10-2021, 14:51

How does one entice their removal of these cute little creatures. We seemed to be over run by them..

wingssail · 30-10-2021, 14:58

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Originally Posted by AA3JY

How does one entice their removal of these cute little creatures. We seemed to be over run by them..

Sell them! Refrigerated you could ship them world wide. I'll buy 5.

They like BBQ sauce.

https://youtu.be/w6qQwU0CyZU

And Bananas.

https://youtu.be/Oc7bgcJ8dwE

Tetepare · 30-10-2021, 15:37

Go offshore and ensure you don’t have roaches. No food, no gekos. When you do get offshore and they still look fat and happy, be glad they’re there.

**JPA Cate** · 30-10-2021, 17:13

@AA3JY,

I can see how "overrun" might be creepy, although Tetepare is probably right: there is something on your boat attracting them. Is it possible that baby cockroaches have flown in? If so, the geckos will probably leave when they have eaten them all.

Or, if they really do like BBQ sauce, maybe a saucer of it on the dock next to the power boat? (Just kidding, but you get the idea.)

Ann

zeehag · 31-10-2021, 07:29

gekkos will unfortunately leave when their food supply is nil. you have bugs.. keep the gekkos. they are awesome.

sailorboy1 · 31-10-2021, 11:02

I have battled earwigs i picked up in New York the last 3 years ago. Couple months ago I noticed I hadn't seen one in a while, but have more spiders. Lately i noticed the spiders seem gone, but I have a gecko. Now i havent seen the gecko in a while.

It all works out.

Sailmonkey · 31-10-2021, 11:29

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Originally Posted by sailorboy1

I have battled earwigs i picked up in New York the last 3 years ago. Couple months ago I noticed I hadn't seen one in a while, but have more spiders. Lately i noticed the spiders seem gone, but I have a gecko. Now i havent seen the gecko in a while.

It all works out.

Are you not missing the cobra and mongoose in there somewhere?

bobnlesley · 31-10-2021, 11:34

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Originally Posted by zeehag

gekkos will unfortunately leave when their food supply is nil. you have bugs.. keep the gekkos. they are awesome.

Exactly this, we had one who lived aboard for over two years, from Malta to the USA; great little fella for getting rid of the mosquitoes. On the trans-At we scattered crumbs of all sorts for him to eat, though he didn't seem keen on any and was looking a bit out of sorts and scrawny by the time we arrived; luckily that was into a river anchorage in French Guiana and he was as fat as butter within the week

sailorboy1 · 31-10-2021, 14:50

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Originally Posted by Sailmonkey

Are you not missing the cobra and mongoose in there somewhere?

No

Alan Mighty · 31-10-2021, 17:51

* visit your local supermarket and buy 1 aerosol can of Ridsect Lizard Repellent (or the local brand available in your locality)

* work out how the geckoes can exit your cabin - you must leave an exit route or else the use of RLR will trap geckoes in your cabin.

You spray RLR onto a surface. The solvent evaporates and leaves a fine coating of white particles. Geckoes prefer not to walk on the white particulate coating.

Once you are assured that geckoes have left your cabin, you wipe the coating away.

https://100comments.com/ridsect-lizard-repellent/

In some jurisdictions, the same lizard repellent is sold as a solid or as a suspension in water. In my experience, the aerosol can version is the more effective (smaller particle size, better coverage and spread) and more convenient to apply (shame about the environmental costs! Sad!).

Alan Mighty · 31-10-2021, 18:33

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Originally Posted by Alan Mighty

* visit your local supermarket and buy 1 aerosol can of Ridsect Lizard Repellent (or the local brand available in your locality)

Ridsect is a brand distributed widely internationally with multiple manufacturing sites.

The brand is owned, I think, by SC Johnson based in Racine, Wisconsin, USA.

I've not been able to identify a declaration of the active ingredient in RLR. My limited understanding is that the physical properties of the ingredient (size of the particles, texture of the particles), not the chemical properties, are what counts.

I assure you that it works. Geckoes (aka house lizards) do not choose to walk on surfaces with a light coating of RLR, whether horizontal, vertical, or any other orientation.

https://www.scjohnson.com/en/about-us/who-we-are
https://www.scjohnson.com/en/product...Pest%20Control

SteveSails · 31-10-2021, 18:49

We had 'Larry the lizard', came aboard somewhere in FL and made his home in a turnbuckle cover of a mizzen shroud. After a rough passage to the Bahamas Larry was nowhere to be found, I feared the worst. But no, Larry was safe and sound sleeping on a pillow in a bunk below. A fool he was not.

AA3JY · 01-11-2021, 03:38

Maybe I should amend my original comment..we are over run not inside the cabin but on deck to the point they are having babies. Chasing them is next to impossible as they scurry into crevices and and canvas areas that are not reachable. Though they are cute to look at just don't want to wake up one morning with one peering at you..