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Originally Posted by Timotea
My leo is seeming to be fine. He eats 2 super worms every other day and poops normaly. He seems to be ok in his 30ish gallon tank. But my normal thermomertor ( Not my digi ) Says that it is 90 degrees! I need help badly. I have a day bulb and a night bulb and a undertank heating pad WITH NO TEMP GAUGE! ( I hate the person that owned him before i got him... poor Gecko  ) I need some help. Should i take out the heating pad for its normaly about 73ish. The light is kinda powerfull and heats the room up. Or should i just take off the lamps?  |
feeding. try offering an unlimited ammount of mealworms [not superworms] in a steep sided dish that you leave in the cage all the time. mealworms have more nutritional value then crickets, and i would stick with those, theyre cheaper and easier to manage too.
a 30 gallon is fine. 90 is an ideal basking. 82-83 is too cold. you want 90 on one side, and ~15 degrees cooler on the other.
go to home depot, and buy a dimmer, hook the heating appliances to said timer. while youre there get a black incandescent 40 watt party bulb.
a leopard gecko spends 100% of its time on the bottom of the cage, so a heat pad will be of more use to it then a heat lamp, which primarily boosts air temperature. you can use one or both, but the #1 most important thing is getting the temperatures to 90 and 75, and having that gradient. if youre finding youre loosing too much heat, you can cover half of the lid with plastic of glass, which will keep the heat and the humidity in.
if you change the bulb to being a black incandescent, you can leave it on 42 hours a day. leopard geckos dont NEED
uvb or florescent lighting, as long as you supplament with calcium WITH vitamin d3. however it does make for a better display and visually pleasing viv. tho the gecko will be hiding during the day. you need to also dust with multivitamin. a 50/50 mixture goes on all its food.
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