angusblack,
You touched on a great practice when purchasing new geckos- keep them over paper towel, at least for the first month or so.
This will allow you to keep track of their 'In Take' and 'Output' so to speak. Monitoring their food and poop is important to insure they are healthy. The poop should be in a clump and sort of the texture of a day old marshmallow but will dry out in a day or so.
Once you establish that the animal(s) are healthy, then you can put them over their long-term substrate choice. Stay away from larger particle substrates however as the animals can ingest this and it could cause impaction. This is especially true if feeding crickets or other insects.
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Wally
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