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I one time just set my male leo in 3/4 of a inch of water and just got him a little wet. How do you guys bath your leo?
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Normal - Male - Ninja
High Yellow - Female - Ninjete

I've had mine for about a year now and haven't bathed it yet. Mine doesn't like it, if you put it in water it jumps out and runs to hide.
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**Kenn**
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Why would you need to bathe it?

Just wondering, I wont, before our big iguana passed away, we gave him baths all the time, but then agian, waters there natural habitat and not a leos.
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Normal - Male - Ninja
High Yellow - Female - Ninjete

As long as you have a humid hide your leo should never, ever need to be 'soaked' or bathed. Ever.

...and for that matter shouldn't. they are a desert species.

I don't need to bathe mine...Mine takes a shower.

"I don't need to bathe mine...mine takes a shower"

Smart arse .

Truth is, as someone else already mentioned, they don't NEED a bath. The moist hide, for help in shedding, will help keep him as clean as he needs to be. Some lizards DO enjoy a swim now and then, but geckos in general do not. Also, regular cleaning of his enclosure will benifit him much. JMHO

Quig
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Don't interupt me when I'm talkin' to myself

I've given my leo some warm water baths at the direction of my vet. In that case it was used to help raise her metabolism a bit while she was ill.

They don't like it much. Had she not been a little under the weather she would've scrambled out of the bowl in a hurry.

I pretty much lowered her into a bowl gradually while she sat in my cupped hand. Even then it was kinda a touchy process.

I wouldn't recommend leaving them unsupervised in a tub as they could panic and possibly injure themselves trying to climb or jump to safety.

There really isn't much reason to bathe them regularly.

LOL...mine take showers too!!! my older gecko loves sitting in the middle of is tank while I mist him with the spray bottle he also likes to sit in his water bowl..hes a strange little gecko...lol..my little one though only gets wet from his humid hide when I periadocally mist his tank he hides and twitches his tail at me if he gets even a drop of water on him he gets all pissed off and stalks around rubbing himself on stuff trying to get it off of him...
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Mike & Wendy

2.0.0 Siberian husky, Jackrussel/schitzu
0.0.1 Ball Python
1.0.1 Leopard Gecko
1.0.0 Beardie
4.0.0 Beta's
3.1.0 Future Herper's

I've had some weird experiences with this too. My current leo used to *SLEEP* in her water bowl when we first got her. Eventually she quit that, but recently has taken to sleeping near it again. One that I used to have would stalk a cricket by the water bowl and walk slowly forward, and as soon as he put one foot in the bowl, he'd get all annoyed, break off the pursuit, and shake the water off his foot, unless, of course, he was mid-strike, in which case, he'd eat the cricket and *then* get annoyed .
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0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko - Tigger
0.1 Crested Gecko - Pooh-Bear