I use the reptile carpet with my leo. I also, agree that it looks much better than paper towels. I use mealworms in a bowl with calcium, so therefore the carpet doesn't get dirty that often. Crickets coated with powder just keep hopping around making little powder spots all over the carpet. I usually clean it around once a week anyways. I take the carpet out and pop it in the dryer with no detergent, and let the hot water clean it. Then I put it in the dryer for a while until dry. Underneath the carpet I have paper towels to add more area between my under the tank heater (UTH) and my gecko so she doesn't get burned. Also, this helps when I take out the carpet, having the paper towels there already. The only complaint I have is that, after I put it in the washer/dryer and put it back in the cage, it seems as if it has shrunk a little. It only seems to shrink like a centimeter each time, so it's not that much. Or you could just buy enough repti-carpet to have two different pieces, and just use one while washing the other, and then switch.
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Raydeohed







0.1.0 Leopard Gecko "Lego"

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• Cage Carpet? - str33tsk8rx, Sun Dec 14 21:48:14 2003
• RE: Cage Carpet? - calgecko, Sun Dec 14 22:15:24 2003
• I think it's nice - Raydeohed, Sun Dec 14 22:23:58 2003