Nate’s Zoo 2: Forbidden Love

At the end of August, I invited you - our dear supporters - to join me for a tour of my small but unusual menagerie, featuring shrimps, crabs, an orchid mantis, and a colony of miraculous sapphic geckoes. Well, a few things have changed since then, so perhaps it’s time to lift the curtain and take a look at the beasts once more…

For a start, we now have a house gecko. Not long after I posted the last article, I was doing a bit of cleaning in the crabitat when I noticed a speck of rustly brown movement beside my hand. Before I could react, one of the Mourning Geckos shot up my arm and scaled my body, Shadow-of-the-Colossus-style, before leaping into the gap between the glass tank and the wall.