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HELP sheet for leopard geckos |
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PLEASE PRINT THIS IT WILL HELP YOU!!!!!!!!!!! |
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This is my help sheet, if you do not like it or see somthing wrong with it please email me for changes. thank you |
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----------------------BASIC CARE----------------------------- |
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The basic care of the leopard gecko is quite easy, 1st you need to feed them, crickets, pinky's (babie mice) (but only feed them pinkys if you are trying to breed them don't feed them a pinkies too often, one per month may be all they need for a treat. Mealworms,wax worms are a good change too. (I have never fed mine waxworms but have heard that they are good for them too. SUPERworms(these worms are very large) my geckos did not find them a good meal. You can also feed them bugs from out side(yummy!)but in doing this you will have to whatch out for parisites and make sure that no insectcides or fertilizers have been used on or around the areas that you collect the bugs from, I would get a book on parisites and other diseases as you know these are deadly....The second thing is fresh water you should change their water bowl every two days,but if they poop in their water dish remove it imediately , because the geckos could get pneumonia, and die if they drink the water with the poop in it...
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The basic food that you can feed them is crickets dusted with calcium/D3 suplimate. you can buy crickets at your local exotice/pet store. let them sit out for atleast 24 hours to have them soke in the calcium suplament.
Feeding them meal worms is very easy if they are alive, i keep about ten meelworms in a little cut off bottom of a plastic water bottel with alot of calcium stuff that the mealworms can swim in, so that the geckos get calcium to make them strong. Another thing that you can feed them is pinkie mice, to feed them to your geckos, they will usawally eat them but if they dont you can just soften their heads alittle to make ooozy stuff come out of their nostrels, this makes it so the geckos will eat it because they like the smell of the brain stuff and you can dust their rumps in the calcium....i dont like super worms, their to big i think, so i dont buy them.
The next thing is water, you must refill their water dish or bowl with new water every 2 days or three i geuss..what every you like and they like, i recomend every 2-4 days at the least. |
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The terarium is very important,because this is were they live, their home....
so you need to take care of it, make alitte house or shelter for them, you can buy them and or make them alittle shelter or house, TO MAKE:take a tupper war contannera and cut a hole in the top or side of the container, them fill with vermiculite and sand, this will help them shed,but if you want a real house then you can just get a black plastic thing and cut a hole in it and your gecko(s) wil like that.TO BUY:go to PeTcO or you can go to PeTsMARt and or you can check out any pets store for shelter. you do not get a shelter your gecko(s) will get depressed and walk aroung and then may die..SO IF YOU DONT HAVE A SHELTER FOR
THEM GET ONE!!!!!!!!!!NOW!
ok, then,glue all of your lose things like stones and bricks.For their substrate you can use gravil and or sand i just use sand
but you can do both or just one on newspaper its the cheepest way to go................................................
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The basic health of the leopard gecko is very important,i would recomend, you getting a book on Leopard geckos,almost every book go's over all of the common parisites and the over all bad things to do
that may cause them to have bad health.So get a book on leo's and it should tell you, if it doesnt please email me...
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Breeding leopard geckos is slitley easy i hear,....first get a male an a female, then make them meet, they should have sex in the next few days if mature, then you will need a nesting box, you can put vermiculite,perlite,or fagnum moss in their so that she can lay them,fill your egg box around 2 inches with what ever you use(i prefer vermiculite)(but i havnt tryed all the others).but you will want the egg box to make it so your female can fit in their and lay the eggs so youll have to make a hole for her to go in.then in about 18 to 30 days she will lay a clutch of eggs (a clutch is usawally 2 almost never 3)now you should have an incubater,then get a themameter and a humidity gage, you want them to have 80-90 degrees for the eggs the lower the temp the higher the posibility that the babies will be a female so about 81-84degrees feranheit it will be a girl the higher it should be a male.then get the humidity 90 percent ( i prefer 85% humidity), then you can put them in(!whatch out for fuzzy green stuff on the eggs its mold!)the higher the humidity to 100 the better but watch out for the green fungees that can grow on the eggs if the humidity is to high.
Then in around 55-70 days of incubating they should hatch. |
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-----------------------------------CONCLUSION------------------------------------------ |
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I hope that you learned alot about Leopard Geckos,but if you did not learn enuff please email me, thank you..
By Aaron Heit |
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