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I have a tokay and some living plants (pothos, adiantum, snsieveria, hedera and similar). I still use two 18 W neon, une TRITON (4200 K°) and one SUN-GLO. What do you think of this kind of lightning? Is the K° temperature right? Tnx in advance

That kind of light should suffice to support growth of the listed plants and especially the Triton gives a quite natural looking light.
The tokay does not care much. He is happy with these dimmer kind of lights and may only love to have the opportunity to come very close to the bulbs for basking.

Ci@o

Ingo

thank you, Ingo!

... to ask you if my neon lights, you say are good for my plants, are too much powerful for the Gecko. In my 80 litres for 80 cm (140 gal. for 35'', it seems to me) tank, i have made a lot of secure hiding for him, and i heavly planted in it directly in the substratum. I have a little waterfal too. But i didn't tink to cleaning operations... will the faeces will be decomposed? My Tokay is my first Geko, so everything you can say to me will be a great information... Thanks

Artamir, Naples, Italy
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The lights are OK for the tokays.
With respect to the feces: You do have to remove feces form walls and leaves.
If you add a number of Zophoba beetles (which the tokays won´t eat) and add a large protion of forest soil digged out in the vicinity or under an old log or tree trunk, to the substrate, the soils organisms and the Zophobas will take care that all feces whicgh has fallen to the ground will be rapidly degraded.
I have not cleaned the substrate of my bigger rainforest setups since years and its all clean and smells like fresh soil.
..and if you dig a bit, you will find numerous arthropodes and annelides.

Ci@o

Ingo