Not a chameleon... What is this?

[Avkidd1980]

my husband found this guy in a transformer .... In -1 degree winter weather (it's warm in a transformer). It dropped its tail when he extracted him. I know it's a gecko... But I do not know what kind.... even the pet store guy had no idea. It has eyes like a cat that do not close and hides all day. We have him in a small terrarium right now with a toilet paper roll a meal worm and a water dish.

 

[KLowery88]

Looks like a Mediterranean House Gecko to me. I have a colony of these living around my front door, but haven't seen them since winter started up. They're definitely nocturnal.

 

[Avkidd1980]

Looks like a Mediterranean House Gecko to me. I have a colony of these living around my front door, but haven't seen them since winter started up. They're definitely nocturnal.

Ahhhhh... Yes... This definitely look like him! He's even varied in color. This picture he was dark... Now he is light colored just like those pictures.

 

[Avkidd1980]

Looks like a Mediterranean House Gecko to me. I have a colony of these living around my front door, but haven't seen them since winter started up. They're definitely nocturnal.

You said you had them around your door? Where do you live? I'm in Michigan so I thought it odd to find him in the dead of winter.

 

[KLowery88]

I live in North Florida, so definitely not as cold as Michigan! I'm pretty sure they brumate while it's cold. This guy might have taken refuge in the transformer since it's a warmer place to hunker down for the winter. They're tough little lizards, which is why they've spread to so many different areas of the world.

 

[KLowery88]

There's an even larger colony of them at my parents' house. During summer nights you can easily spot seven or eight of them on the wall.

 

[JGuinan007]

That's an invasive species, they took over Florida in the 70s and recently took over the rest of the south and Texas it's seems they are launching an all out assault on the mitten state now!

 

[Avkidd1980]

That's an invasive species, they took over Florida in the 70s and recently took over the rest of the south and Texas it's seems they are launching an all out assault on the mitten state now!

Lol... seriously... No one knew what this thing was. We were thinking someone's pet escaped? Lol.

 

[Avkidd1980]

I live in North Florida, so definitely not as cold as Michigan! I'm pretty sure they brumate while it's cold. This guy might have taken refuge in the transformer since it's a warmer place to hunker down for the winter. They're tough little lizards, which is why they've spread to so many different areas of the world.

The closest thing we could find to it was the leopard gecko... But once looking at them at the pet store... They did not look alike as we thought.