There are plenty of care sheets out there. There are very few records of someone actually doing it. Everything on this site comes from watching my own fat-tailed gecko, Ohagi, day after day: the weight gains, the shed that got stuck, the week he refused to eat. All of it, with photos.
Read the care guides Meet Ohagi
Every guide includes the numbers I actually run (°F first, °C in brackets) and photos taken in my home. Start with "Getting Started" if Ohagi is your first fat-tail.
The star of this site, and the subject of every article on it.
| Name | Ohagi. Named after a Japanese sweet made of dark rice and brown bean paste. His colors matched, so the family named him at first sight. |
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| Species | African fat-tailed gecko (Hemitheconyx caudicinctus), male |
| Morph | Normal het Oreo, Zulu, 50% het Ghost |
| Came home | May 11, 2026, from a reptile shop in Japan where I met him in person |
| Weight so far | 24.2 g (day one) → 26 g (Jul 4) → 30 g (Aug 6) → 31 g (Aug 11) → 35 g (mid-Sep) |
| Favorites | Crickets, a rehydrated Japanese gecko diet, and the water dish on top of his moist hide |
More about Ohagi and why a keeper in Japan is writing this in English →
