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How would you house a CRB. I currently have mine in a 50 gallon tank with moist eco-earth coconut bark substrate... ya know, the brick stuff. I have 2 climbing branches, a big hide on the cool side, and a water bowl over on the warm side. I also have a repti-hammok thing, over near the top of the cool side. Along with a few plants lining the back wall.

My questions are:
what substrate do you use?
what side should my hide be on (warm or cool)?
UTH or Heat lamp?
and anything else you wanna toss in there about setups......
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Kev
1.1.0 Tang Leopard Geckos: Marley, Mary
1.0.0 Normal Leopard Gecko: Toad
0.1.0 Colombian Rainbow Boa: Rambo
1 Beta: Malificent
0.1.0 Tri Australian Shepard: Nelly

I am not familiar with any of the commercial products you mentioned so I can't comment on them.
But I keep mine two ways. One 'natural' and one 'practical'.
When they are newborn to about a year old I keep them in the standard sweater box with warm spot, hide or two and an over-sized water bowl.
As they get a little larger though I have been moving towards keeping them in a more natural display type cage. I line the bottom with newspaper or paper towels but then cover this with sea grape or sea plum leaves or small palm branches from my yard.
I have some neat ceramic hide boxes my wife made years ago and I also add some nice stout branches. Lastly I put either one large water bowl or two medium bowls. I feel that the humidity is very important and they will often spend several days coiled in the water---especially if the water bowl is partially covered by palm leaves or a big slab of cork bark.
I can do this because I keep my collection small but it really makes keeping them much more interesting.

WOnderful! Thank you very much sir. I like the idea of partially covering the water dish! Excellent!

Kev
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Kev
1.1.0 Tang Leopard Geckos: Marley, Mary
1.0.0 Normal Leopard Gecko: Toad
0.1.0 Colombian Rainbow Boa: Rambo
1 Beta: Malificent
0.1.0 Tri Australian Shepard: Nelly