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My experience with leos taking baths

fadetolemons Mar 22, 2004 09:53 PM

Well, inspired by someone's thread lower on this page i decided to let my leos take a bath. Well, the first one i put in there, Treble, loooovvved it, he was swimming around, soaking, and i'm pretty sure this is because he's about to shed. The second one, Stamps, seemed to like it alright, he was swimming, but didn't really care otherwise. And then when i tried to put Wedge in, the second he touched the water he just went insane, flailing his arms around, trying to scurry up the sides of the container. So i took him out, but the other two seemed to just love it, and i'm sure it helps clean them and helps them w/ shedding, as well as just letting them drink some water.

What i did was i had a biigg touperware container, like a 12 by 18 one, and i put in the remaining chunks of tile from where i broke some apart for my substrate. I took these and stacked them in a way that made them just above water level, so they could get up on those if they wanted. I put lukewarm-warm water in, and kept adding little increments of warm/semi-hot water in to keep it nice and warm for my leos, they seemed to really enjoy it a lot! Try it w/ yours if you haven't already
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0.0.3 Leopard Geckos
0.1.0 Miniature long-haired dachsund

Replies (2)

Snarks Mar 22, 2004 10:40 PM

hahah that's cute
maybe i should try letting them swim instead of wetting their feet

Breathingbywires Mar 23, 2004 01:00 AM

I remember when Astrid was impacted and I gave him baths in luke warm water he freaked out. I had to do everything in my power to get in him there let alone keep him in there lol.

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~Kayla
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1.0 Leo Gecko's *Astrid* - was told he was a her at first
0.0.1 Pictus Gecko *Raine* - too young to sex
1.1 Hollond Lop Bunnies *Panda, Oreo*

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