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I have a pair of leopard lizards I got from a friend they are in a 40 gallon tank with washed sand a mercury wapor bulb. I was wondering feeding schedule they where on crickets but I breed 2 different types of roaches superworms butterworms and mealworms.How often do you feed them? what is your setup like? any other ifo would be great thanks Matt

How dop you sex them? I am assuming mine are males. They have been together for awhile and no babies lol

Sexing Leopards is harder than for collareds. The guy I bought them from made it sound easy, but I haven't found that to be the case. He says the females are larger, but that's really not a reliable way of telling, if you ask me. Try looking at the femoral pores on the underside of the back legs. The males should have larger pores. They don't seem to have much in the way of bulges at the base of the tail, unfortunately; so it's a fairly subtle difference between males and females.

Good luck,
élan
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5.6.0 Collareds
1.2.0 Leopard Lizards
1.0.0 Mali Uromastix
1.2.0 Green Anole
1.0.0 Chinese Dwarf Newt
1.0.0 White's Treefrog
1.0.0 Fire bellied toad
1.0.0 Treefrog (Alabama native)
Even More Felines
1.3.0 Canines
1.0.0 Equine

I keep them in a set up that's pretty much the same as for a collared, with washed playsand, shale for their basking rocks, and temps above 100 in the basking area and 10-15 degrees lower on the other side of the tank. They really like to burrow, and I will often find them under rocks with nothing but their heads sticking out. So be sure to give them plenty of places to burrow, and make sure that they can't shift the rocks around while they're doing it.

As for feeding--I sometimes feed them every day, but if they're adults, they really only need to be fed every two days. I give them whatever I give the collareds (crickets, superworms, wax worms, roaches, etc.), but mine seem to like crickets the best.

Hope that helps,

élan
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5.6.0 Collareds
1.2.0 Leopard Lizards
1.0.0 Mali Uromastix
1.2.0 Green Anole
1.0.0 Chinese Dwarf Newt
1.0.0 White's Treefrog
1.0.0 Fire bellied toad
1.0.0 Treefrog (Alabama native)
Even More Felines
1.3.0 Canines
1.0.0 Equine