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Men and Women’s hair salon
has openings for hair stylist and/
or barber. Tonsorial Parlor, 210 W
Grand Ave, El Segundo. Call or text:
Dale Snowberger, 1-310-897-7997.
Wanted
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pay, 2-3 hours weekly. Must be local.
310.606.1683.
Room Wanted
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Geckos from front page
been converted into a rack system, where she
can keep all her geckos in a tower-like structure
and see all of them at once.
“In late winter is when the leopard gecko
starts laying eggs,” she says. As the females
begin laying their soft, marshmallow-like
eggs, Gibson carefully combs through their
enclosures to find them, and once she has, she
places them carefully in an incubator. Gibson
then gets to decide if she wants female or male
leopard geckos. She chooses by changing the
temperature at which the eggs are incubated,
which affects how they are born.
“Her first season, she wanted them all to be
girls,” says Shawna, her mom, “so we incubated
them at the right temperature to make sure that
they were all female offspring.” She learned
that season that females take longer to hatch,
so this year, she chose all males.
Her geckos must be kept separate because, on
occasion, they can get aggressive and fight with
Alyson Gibson with two of her specially bred leopard geckos.
each other. In some instances, a leopard gecko
may lose its tail in a fight. They can safely
detach their tails in case of a predator picking
them up from behind. Though the gecko can
adapt just fine and even regrow a tail, it usually
grows back very differently, slightly more
deformed and discolored. Gibson doesn’t wish
for her geckos to go through this experience.
From here, the newly hatched babies get their
own slot in the rack system, being provided
with the right amount of heat, food, and what
she calls a “hide.” This is a type of dirt that
allows them to burrow underneath to cool
down. Each enclosure is specially conditioned
to remain between seventy to eighty degrees,
though she laughs, saying the rest of the house
is not that temperature.
Gibson’s geckos lay two eggs every fifteen
days, which can lead to a lot of baby geckos. “We
had like twenty-eight of them at one time,” she
says. At one point, the geckos had so many
babies that they began to feed the babies to her
bearded dragon, who started getting too fat from
all the food. Though she loves other reptiles
and her bearded dragon, she doesn’t breed that
pet because it can get egg-bound, she says.
Once they are ready, she sells them to lucky
families looking for a beautiful leopard gecko.
Prices depend on the color and pattern, as Gibson
has mainly exotic and designer animals. Gibson
herself gives the care instructions for the new
pet and ensures that they have everything they
need for a long and happy life.
As for her future plans with reptiles, Gibson
is unsure of her path. “When I get older, like
fourteen or fifteen, I’m probably not going to
keep doing it,” she says, explaining that she’ll
focus more on sports and school and citing
that gecko upkeep is a lot of time and effort.
“I like seeing what their babies will turn out
like, and I like seeing and holding them. I
really like the idea of the desert and seeing a
bunch of my favorite animals,” shares Gibson.
In her future, Gibson sees sports and college.
Though she used to want to be a veterinarian,
she now has her sights set on law school. “When
I get to college, I want to get a scholarship
for softball. But I want to be a lawyer when
I grow up,” she says.
For all your leopard gecko needs here in El
Segundo, Alyson Gibson is the person to see. •
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