I'd recommend waiting and getting 2 from the one pet store. If you get 2 leos from separate places you need to keep them separated (and clean anything that touches either cage before touching the other one) for 2-3 months (3 months is better) to make sure that neither is carrying any diseases. I would recommend getting leos from breeders rather than petstores...but some petstores are ok...have you ever seen any animals in the store look unhealthy or noticed improper care? As has already been said, make sure you don't get two males, unless you're prepared to keep them apart their entire lives. As far as feeding, its good to give leos a varied diet, and yes, crickets actually are better nutritionally but its not a huge difference. You just have to be careful where you get your crickets from as if they are fed moldy/bad food they can make leos very ill and even kill them, and they can also carry parasites. It's not usually too common of a problem, just if you're getting crickets from somehwere nearby try to take a look at the cage the crickets are in and make sure it looks fairly clean. As far as a varied diet, you can give them quite a lot of things, crickets, mealworms, superworms, and silkworms (supposedly most healthy but also most expensive!) are good as staples and can be alternated with eachother. You can also give occasional treats (once or twice a month) of a few waxworms. Anyway, if you haven't you ought to check out a few good caresheets (you usually can't trust what petstores tell you). Here's a link to mine, and I know a lot of other people on the forum have caresheets as well... Illini Leos Caresheet It's always good to see someone new joining the hobby! I hope you have fun with the little guys...just be careful...they're addictive!!! lol
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Christina







Leopard Gecko Morph Descriptions



2.3 leos

-0.1 tangerine het rainwater albino w/jungle background (Blinkers)

-0.2 jungles (Vahz & Skissor)

-1.0 tremper albino (Spitfire)

-1.0 tangerine rainwater albino (Bronx)

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