Care Sheet for Geckos: LeopardAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 3.75 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 07/01/2004 |
Main Category: | Lizards |
Sub Category: | Geckos: Leopard |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Flip21 |
Years Experience: | 3 to 5 Years |
Species: | Leopard gecko |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | N/A |
Sexing and Characteristics: | Males have bigger heads and are usally bigger over all. They have a row of "V" shaped pores close to where their hemepenial bulges are.
Females are usally smaller than males but mine is a huge female so that can be wrong sometimes. They don’t very visible pores also which should be a dead give away to sexing your gecko.
Leopard Geckos on average reach lengths of 8-9 inches but the Tremper Giant Leopard Gecko reaches 12-14 inches. |
Mostly Active During: | Night |
Substrate and Water Needs: | I use paper towels. They are great.
They only need a shallow dish of water. |
Lighting and UVB: | I currently use a 50 watt zoo-med heat lamp. UVB is not neccesery. You can just take your leo(s) outside and they can get their UVB from that. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | Day: 85-90 degrees
Night: 75-80 degrees
Humidity: Between 20-25%, don’t raise during shedding because it can mess up the husbandry of your gecko. If you want aid the shedding process take your leo out and mist it. |
Heating and Equipment: | NO HOT ROCKS! Heat pads are ok if you don’t use a light but otherwise don’t use them. Get a digital thermometer because it will make your life a lot eaiser. |
Caging Provided: | I have my 2 in a 20-gallon long terrarium. They love it. For a trio I would recomend a 30 but they can be housed in 20-gallon but I would think that it would be very cramped. |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | Make the staple crickets and dusted crickets. Mealworms and waxworms are a good treat. But they are higher in fat content and aren’t easly digested so keep those *treats*. You should dust the meal/waxworms to. I have tried commercialy prepared foods and Lavender (one of my leos) dosen’t really like them and Blizz(another one of my leos) eats them. They all have their personal prefrences. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | For Blizz I use: Rep-cal Calcium and Vitamin D3 and Rep-cal Herptivite.
For Lavender I use: Reptolife and Reptocal
Usage:
I mix the vitamin and calcium supplements togeather and feed them dusted crickets 3-4 times a week. I also use Bone-Aid liquid calcium. I give that to them by mouth every week or so. If you do that then use less of the calcium supplements.
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Maintenance: | Clean the cage when ever they poo. Make sure that fresh, clean water is available at all times. |
Some Words on this Species: | This species is a lot of fun to keep(I think) they have great personalities and they are all very tame. |
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