Care Sheet for Geckos: LeopardAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 3.33 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 08/18/2004 |
Main Category: | Lizards |
Sub Category: | Geckos: Leopard |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Leokeeper |
Years Experience: | Under 1 Year |
Species: | Leopard gecko |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | All leopard geckos as well as fat tailed geckos |
Sexing and Characteristics: | Males have broader heads, a pre anal pores just above the vent area, the males also have two lumps by the base of the tail, females lack the pores and the lumps also the femles have a narrower head |
Mostly Active During: | Night |
Substrate and Water Needs: | Paper towels are reccomended for hatchlings & juvinles as sand can inpact yonug ones, adults can be housed on cali-sand or anothereasily dijestable bedding. A small shallow water dish is needed. |
Lighting and UVB: | These lizards are nocturnal so no uvb lighting is needed. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | There should be a cool end and a warm end in the tank, on the warm end it should be mid 80’s and the cool end should be about 75, these are desert animals so there is no need to ahve it humid but you should have a hiding palce with moisened bedding in it to help them when there shedding. |
Heating and Equipment: | A under tank heating pad works well but a dark(invisable so that its not bright at night) basking bulb and lamp would work also. |
Caging Provided: | A ten gallon tank will work for two hatchling or one adult, a twenty gallon long tank will work for two/three adults or about five hatchlings. |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | They eat crickets, meal worms, butter worms, silk worms, wax worms & pinkie(baby) mice when adult. You should feed a baby about ten pin head(tiny) crickets daily and every day or second day, the adults should be fed about ten every three/four days...the adults can be fed meal worms & all all of the above mentioned bugs but please limit wax worms & butter worms as they are fatty and may cause your gecko to get fat. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | For babys sprinkle calcium(make sure there only calcium in the powder) on there crickets daily, for adults sprinkle the calcium on there food about twice a week, you can also use muti vitamins but if you use these don’t use the calcium also as there might be an over dose problem. |
Maintenance: | There mataince is pretty low but they do need there feaces taken out of there cages every day or so and a complet cage change every month. |
Some Words on this Species: | These geckos may be housed with there own species but you must never house two amels together as they will fight to the death ever if they grew up together and even if there are no females around. Females may be housed together provided they all get along with the others you’ve placed in with them. Handle them with care as they are delicate and althou the can be handled it doesnt mean that they should be held for long periods sevral times daily as they can get stressed easily and extensive stress will cause death. |
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