Make sure you have them in atleast a 20 gallon long tank, anything smaller wont be big enough for them when they are full grown. give them atleast one dry hide on both ends of the tank. They also need a humid hide. This can be as simple as non seethrough cool whip container with damp paper towels inside. I use this except i use bed-a-beast because it holds moisture well. Make sure you put it on the warm side, or else it will become the soggy cold hide

For feeding you can leave a dish of small mealworms in 24/7, or you can feed them crickets daily. Either way works, whatever is easier for you. Make sure all of them are eating good, sometimes one gecko will bully the others and eat all the food.

Make sure you dont have two males, becuase when they get older they will fight, seriously hurting eachother. You also dont want a male andmale, because they may mate to soon and this leads to the female possibly becoming egg bound.

I would house them on paper towels or repti carpet until they are six inches, because they can become impacted if housed on sand. Even if they are adults, there is still a risk and its your choice ifyour willing to take that risk, i personally dont.

You can either use a heat pad or a lamp to make a gradient, but heat pads work better, since they like the belly heat. If you live in a cold country like me (canada) you may need a small wattage lamp to get the air temp up a bit.

hope this helps, l8er

Mac

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• New person questions. - Drako32186, Sun May 18 17:35:19 2003
• RE: New person questions. - ZeR0, Sun May 18 18:01:53 2003
• forgot... - ZeR0, Sun May 18 18:04:46 2003