Can Crested Geckos Swim?

I investigate the question: 'can cresties swim?' posed by members of RFUK (Reptile Forums UK). I filled a bath with lukewarm water to a depth of a few inches and introduced various cresties; sub-adult, adult, tail-less and hatchling to see which ones could swim the best!

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Pets & Animals

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• crested
• gecko
• crestie
• swim
• swimming
• bath

[IamMeUareYou]

people he wont drown, even a bearded dragon, a desert animal who will probally barely see water, still has an instinct to swim and wont drown. Infact most reptiles do, including snakes and in this video its quite interesting because you can see a climbing sticky lizard using the back half of his body to swim, not his arms or tail. Infact he acts simular to what a snake would do in water. You can see the relationship here, and snakes used to have legs and would swim just like this years ago.

[scaqskipscaggles]

I would never ever make my crestie do anything that would clearly be causing him stress just for my entertainment or for an"experiment". Not cool.

[Dinonaughts]

Olympic gold medalist right there.

[asandman94]

lol hes like omg wet NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[scaqskipscaggles]

The crestie drowning isn't the point. It doesn't matter how deep the water is, the point is, you are scaring the crap out of the poor thing!! He doesn't know that he wont drown in the water, all he knows is that he's in water, he's not touching the bottom and he's frightened! Get that through your thick skull! He's not smart enough to know that he will be ok, he's a gecko!

[Kevthekid23]

Only a finger length deep are fucking stupid the water is still higher than the geckos height

[D3ADchris]

you freaking morron! clearlly they hate the water so why keep putting them in!!!! and no they cant swim they will drown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yas473]

@Misschibimonster i MENT TO SAY PUTTING A CRESTIE IN WATER THAT DEEP IS PLAIN TORTURE (no offence)

[TheLsding]

you should NEVER put a crestie in that much water!!!!!!!!! you shouldnt even have the humidity in their cage that high (50-70%)..and they do need a daily drop in humidity(10-20%) or they get lung infections and die...how dumb can you be! you should not own geckos

[scaqskipscaggles]

And to the person saying that they would put their crestie in water to help with shedding, that's what misting them with a water bottle is for.

[scaqskipscaggles]

Misschibimonster: First off all, my crestie doesn't try to get out of my hand when I hold him. He either sits there or, runs up to my shoulder and chills there for a while. 2nd, yes, cresties do bath in their water dishes, when THEY want to. I find this cruel because the crestie is clearly distressed being put into a tub of water. How would you feel if a giant hand came out of the sky, picked you up from whatever you were doing an put you into deep water just to see if you could swim?