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I can't find the answer to this. I have a group of leopard geckos and one fat tail. They came into my rescue and since I do mostly turtles and torotises these are my first geckos. I have researched their care, food requirements, cage requirements but I can't figure out what the difference is between them. Do they interbreed? The leopards are all females (different colors, very pretty). The fat tail is all brown.

Lori
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Fat tails require 20-30% more humidity and come from a totally different country than leopard geckos therefor if you keep them together and raise the humidity the leos can develop respiritory diseas(sp?) and if you loxwer it..the fat tails will becon dehydrated and eventually will die

Well that answers that. I'll leave them as is. I am currently using damp spagnam moss in a small container for the fat tail. I don't have anything but a water dish with the leopards. Is this ok? Because of the temp in the reptile room (too many heat lamps running) there isn't that much humidity.

Lori

The things you should have with the leo's are 1 humid hide placed on top of UTH (under tank heater if you didnt already know). the UTH should be under the tank with the humid hide placed on top. the humid hides are used for shedding and to releive stress so its very important. you can use either sphagnam moss, peat moss, or vermiculite for the humid hide substrate. they should also have a water dish, food dish, and calcium dish food dishes are used for mealworms and waxworms..calcium dishes should be a very shallow dish with calcium powder in it..the leos with lick this for calcium, what are you using for substrate for the leos? the best thing to use would be paper towls, tiles, repti-carpet..that should explain the basics