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Fridoohs leopard geckos
Topic Started: Feb 13 2015, 06:07 PM (2,557 Views)
fridooh
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Well, I'm crazy. I live in a small house with only two rooms and a bathroom, still I keep getting more and more pets. I currently have two turtles and two dogs (I also "baby sit" a third dog some days). For Valentine's Day, my boyfriend gave me permission to buy leopard geckos. I'm so happy!

Today I bought a exo terra terrarium with all the stuff that's needed for the geckos. I'll buy two geckos tomorrow, hopefully. I just had to share this with you!

Anyone else here who have geckos as pets? :)

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HENDRIX
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Nice, one can never have enough geckos! And leopard geckos are just too cute and tame! :) ...but why moss? My brother got 3 a few years ago and he used to keep them on loam, but now simply on sand. It's easy to keep clean, although curiously, they only shit in one corner of the terrarium. :P
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Terrena Laxamentum
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Why moss? That's better for Asian Cave Geckos or African Fat Tails. I would put paper towel, tile, or carpet. Are your geckos morphed, or normal mutt geckos? Unless you got pure subspecies? I'm sure you have seem my geckos.

EDIT: What madness is this? Get rid of those daylight bulbs, the heat lamp should use the red bulbs or get rid of the lamps and put under tank heater on one side, you need a hot and cool (less hot) side.
Edited by Terrena Laxamentum, Feb 13 2015, 07:16 PM.
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Burns
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King of Lemurs

I have a crested gecko as a pet. :)
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

You are using wrong substrate. Leopard Gecko is desert animal. Moss could hold too much moiseture for it and can caus respiratory infection.

Can't wait to see the geckoes though. :P
Edited by Mathius Tyra, Feb 13 2015, 10:03 PM.
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Guys! Haha. I bought a starter pack for leopard geckos and apparently they like moss xD it's better than sand, but I will buy something else for them in the future. I just thought it was so boring with just a mat xD I have ordered a package with a substance that suits them better, this is just temporary ;) also, I'm keeping some of the moss in a moist "box" - you need that, right?

I have a red lamp, should I change to that one instead? I have a heat mat and a heat rock at the right side, so the left side is cool. I don't know much about morphs etc but I think they are wild type :)

It's good that you all teach me :D
Edited by fridooh, Feb 14 2015, 03:50 AM.
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Terrena Laxamentum
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Don't put them on sand, that could cause impaction and other problems. Slate tile is probably your best option since you don't want boring paper or mat. Grounded coco nut husk is the best for moist/lay box. How hot is the hot side? if its 90F you don't even need the lamp, cool side must be 70’s to low 80’s. Two small dishes will be needed, one for water, and one for calcium (without D3). Sprinkle the insects with vitamins, calcium, D3, etc. (This is usually included in one package). And the geckos, are they paired, all female? Once you show pictures of them I could tell morph, if any.
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The cool side is, well.. the same temperature we have in our house :P Right now it's somewhere around 25 degrees Celsius which is 73F. I just turned on the heat mat and I'll check the temp as soon as it's gotten warm :)

Edit: The heat mat alone is actually only around 28C-29C while with the heatlamp it's around 30-31C :)

I'll stop buy the pet store today and buy some of the things you mentioned.
Is it ok to have moist moss in the moist/lay box?
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30-32 C is good for the hot side which is around 90 F.

Like terrena said you can also use coco fiber but I just use damp paper towels as they are simple to replace and get the job done fine.
I use a combination of tile and cage carpet in my enclosure because on the cool side the tile tends to become a little chilly, which you'll have experienced if you touch a tile wall or floor in your bathroom or kitchen.

Mid 70's is okay for the cool side. It could be a little hotter, but if it's a little too cold your only problem will be your geckos won't be there as much.

Here's my enclosure. Pretty ugly atm, but it gets the job done. Heat mat is underneath the cave on the far left. The lamp is just a red light i turn on sometimes if I need to bump the temps a dew degrees.
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Just to throw this in here, I've never seen anyone here (meaning Netherlands) keeping (adult) Leopard geckos on anything else than sand or a mixture of sand and clay, and I've actually never heard anything about it going wrong.. be carefull on what types of sand etc. you use though. :)
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I know half of you will probably want to punch me in the face for this, but I'm using sand. The breeder gave me a bag of sand that he used, so these two geckos have lived on this sand for five years without a problem. I think it's going to go fine, they do live in the desert in the wild, right? :P I'll keep an eye on them though.

So, here they are! The males name is Rango and the females name is Adele. I'm so happy!!! They are so beautiful.

So, does anyone want to guess morph? :)

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Terrena Laxamentum
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Are you serious? Sand? They live in rocky areas in Pakistan, not Sahara desert, do I really need to post a picture of what can happen on sand? Why risk it?

Oh, and they are Super Hypos!
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Yes, I know I know :P But they have lived on this sand for five years without problems.. I've seen the pictures of what can happen. Of course I don't want these guys to get sick..

It's hard cause some people say it's ok and some say it's not. I'll take a trip to the reptile store in Stockholm on monday and see what they say about it and maybe buy something new for them :)
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Terrena Laxamentum
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There is always something going on...

I would not risk it, you should not learn the lesson the hard way. Its your decision at the end though.

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Feeding them on a different substrate should help avoiding the risk IIRC.
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