We have switched from sand to paper towels as a substrate after reading of the many dangers of impaction and have a couple of questions.
- Do you just put the towels directly on the bottom of the tank, or do you have a soft layer of something in between? We just have a single layer and it seems kind of hard for the leo to lay on.
- How do you keep the crickets and mealworms from hiding under the edge of the towels, out of sight of the leo? We are using small crickets, which like to crawl under the towels where they meet the side of the tank. Its a pain to try to roust them so our leo will see them.
- Would it be bad to put our leo in a separate container for feeding (yeah, going out for dinner!)? When we changed substrate, we put her in a small container with a few crickets that had nowhere to hide, and she gobbled them up in a couple of minutes. This seems much easier than putting the crickets in the tank, coaxing them out of the towels and from under the hides, etc.
Thanks for any advice you can give!
so 4 of those on the warm side and 2 of them on the cool side. my leo doesn't seem to mind... i assume it's because they tend to like harder areas as they come from a rocky habitat.
