leopard geckos are the shit
mine is fucking 14 years old i got him in the fourth grade!! they are soooooo easy to care for and they live for 10-20 yrs! females are SUPER tame, males usually so but they sometimes get rowdy, they eat mealworms and crickets
they have claws not pads to they cant escape, mine has lived his entire life in a 3x1 foot cage
when i was younger he literally went 5 months with out eating
theyre colors evolve and change over time, they develop more and more spots with age, females max out at about 5-7 inches in length, males sometime grow to 9 in, they also do cool stuff like stalk their prey and wiggle their tails when they are about to attack, and of course add the spots and you see where they get the name
check em out fdd, best pet ever, pretty cheap too