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Does anyone know of any Leopard Gecko breeders in Louisiana? I appreciate any info. Thank you!
-Sean

I think I'll just buy one from PetSmart *sigh*. Hopefully it'll be healthy =(

Try K&N Reptile. There is a link to there website on Kingsnakes front page. I haven't purchased anything form them myself, but a breeder I know personally has bought some nice breeding stock through them. Good Luck.

Hey,

You didn't mention what part of the state you're in. When I lived in Baton Rouge, there were a couple of shows that were held each year within a reasonable distance - one in Slidell (near NO) and one in Covington (I-12 past Hammond). I don't know what the status of these shows post-hurricanes has become. The Slidell one was usually during the middle of summer, and was often listed in Reptiles Mag.

There was also a VERY local show in Port Allen that tried to move to Baton Rouge in 2005. It was a poor show with few vendors and little more than redundant colubrid morphs.

I wouldn't advocate buying a leopard from PetsMart/PetCo/etc. Leopards from those corporate stores are never a great idea since those little geckos are never housed properly (you couldn't see them to buy them if they were) and are not fed like they should be. The rigorous deal of shipping them from massive breeder to the distributor, then on to the corporate retail store while the youngsters are quite delicate can be debilitating. However, some breeders who deal with the public may have collections ridden with ailments such as cryptosporidiosis, so you have to be just as careful there.

Sooo, just pay $45-50 extra (for shipping) and you can order a really nice gecko of your choice from a great breeder anywhere in the nation without even turning a car's ignition. Is there a particular morph you are after?

I was really just looking for a normal at the moment. I went to PetSmart and they had some that had been there a while and weren't juveniles and had little plump tails so I bought one of those (before reading this message). But he/she (haven't checked yet) is alert and sits up and looks around and has clear eyes and no discharge from his/her nose or anything else that looks wrong. I'll take a picture in maybe a week so that it has time to settle down. I will take a picture of the tank and post it in a few minutes though because I'm not sure I have enough as far as hides and such (its really difficult to fit everything into a 10 gallon tank it seems like... anyway, I'll post a pic of the tank.

So far it has a cave thing on the hot side (which is a lamp, I have a UTH but I'm unsure still about how to go about that... should I just have the UTH and no lamp and how do you tell the temp of the ground?) and a plant on the cool side because when I was buying him, he was up in a plant instead of in a cave so I guessed he liked it *shrugs*. and I'm just using paper towels for substrate. I'm trying to decide how to go about a humid hide. Should it be on the hot or cool side? and if it should be on the hot side (where I have a cave at the moment) should I move the cave to the cool side and put the humid on the hot? etc.

I just read a lot of different info and it gets confusing.

Oh and I live in CENLA

I think I posted the image correctly... and I know they're desert animals and dont NEED plants in there (fake ones) but I got it because he was on one and thought he liked it.. oh well.

Well I tried to move the cave to the cool side and add a humid hide to the hot side (plastic container with a hole cut in it, with moist paper towels inside) and he walked past the humid hide and went to the cave on the cool side... so I just took the plastic container out, put the moist paper towels inside the cave and put it back on the hot side which he's in now. I also put a ZooMed Repti Therm UTH under the cave (with the heat lamp above also) to provide some belly heat. Its made for a 1-5 gallon tank (its small, just the right size for the cave to fit ontop of) so I dont think it'll get too hot. I'll try to think of something to do about the hides. its really bothering me >.