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Reading some of the recent posts discussing tile as a substrate, got me to thinking of using it. But I had two questions.

1) Will my juvie have difficulty knowing where the water is? I've been pusing the bowl down in her current substrate so its not so high up. All the pics I've seen of habitats with tile just have the bowl sitting on the tile. Basically I don't want to cut off her water supply.

2) How exactly do you clean up messes on the tile? Do you just pull the tile out and rinse it or do you use tweasers or some other method.

Thanks in advance,
Mike

I put a piece of paper towel over the part where my gecko poops and just chuck out the paper towel when ever it gets soiled. If my gecko does happen to poop on the tile itself, I just take the soiled tile out and scrub it with Joy soap and a scouring pad and let it air dry before putting it back in.

My water bowl is about 1" high and my gecko has no problems finding water (he's only 2 months old). I'm pretty sure your gecko recognizes the bowl as the water bowl by now if you've had the same gecko and water bowl together for more than a few weeks. If he still has trouble finding water, just pick him up and place him so that he can see the water (he might even drink while your holding him if he's thirsty), and he'll learn that the water is there.

The nice thing about tile is that it holds heat, so there's very little surface temperature variation and gives the geckos a warm place to lie on.

-Lemur 6