They also like to lick honey. In the zoo, geckos are fed small crickets, mealworms, and occasionally mashed papayas. Because it is difficult to teach geckos to drink water from a dish, their enclosure is periodically misted and they take water from the leaves. The young reach sexual maturity in one year. Males can be recognized by their distinctly broader head.
Adult males are usually more colorful than adult females.
Sexually mature males develop enlarged pores on their hind legs and produce a waxy substance resembling droplets. Sexually mature females may have calcium deposits on each side of the neck.