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Here is what I'm trying to achieve and how I am doing it. Any advice is very much welcome as this will be my first time keeping a Uroplatus of any sort.

What I am keeping:
1.2 Satanic Leaf Tails

What I am trying to achieve:
Overall temperature of 72 degrees w/ a drop to 68 degrees at night.
Humidity between 85-93%

How and what I am using:
36x18x13 40gallon w/ all screen top. 2 30" Reptisun 2.0 bulbs stretched over top of screen (possibly 1 or 2 inches above screen if they need more ventilation than that). I also want to create a small stream that will seperate about 1/6 of the foreground from the rest of the background and foreground. This I do not know how to do and would like any advice as to create a stream that will not over-sog my substrate. I am planning on putting about 15-20 plants in here ranging from epiphytes to terrestrial stars and smike moss to cover most of the terrarium floor. I am also using a bunch of rocks and small branches and would like to know the best way to sterilize these items. Would a water/bleach solution ever leave the pores of the rocks and branches? Or would baking in an oven be safer and what temperature is safe so that the wood doesn't burn?

Also, any husbandry suggestions would be great as well. I have miner-all I/O, vit-all, and I also breed some of my own feeders. Except crickets, I really hate the smell of them. I have been feeding all of my reptiles on a staple diet of lobster roaches including a small Thick-Toed Gecko.

Thanks,
Ryan

Get rid of the rocks, rocks arent a very good choice to have with any sort of uros because they can hurt their nose when they try to garb a cricket or something, otherwise it sounds nice.

Good luck with your new Uros

Michael Jonasson
Sweden

Paulding county here. Northwest tip.
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"Why is it we treat the earth as if we have a spare in the trunk"

I'm from Parma Heights, Cuyahoga County, North-East. What reptiles do you own? I have a baby kingsnake (albino, really pretty 6-7 months), 1.2 leopard geckos, 0.1 thick-toed gecko (unidentified, was sold as Bibron, but is still really small), 1.0 Tokay.

Well that is beautifull country there. I currently have 1.0.3 blizard leo's, 0.1 het for the same, 0.0.2 crested's, 1.0 red albino corn snake, 1.0 rainwater leo, 0.1 female tremper too oh, and my male bci het 100% for albino and .25% for snow. Soon to have 1.1 U. Fimbriatus also.
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"Why is it we treat the earth as if we have a spare in the trunk"

That's very cool. I'm purchasing some baby leopards this fall so I can get use to taking care of em (as well as my eggs incubating now). 3 blizzards, 3 patternless, and 3 bell albinos. By next spring I will be getting 1.1 tangerine, 1.1 carrot-tail, 1.1 tremper, 1.1 las vegas, 1.1 hypo-striped, and 1.1 yellow phase giant tremper. A couple years down I will be selling them.

Next spring is when I'll be getting the Phantasticus, hopefully by then there will be more captive born available. Just giving my vivarium time to grow and develop so my Uros have some nice stompin grounds.

Lemme know if you're in need of feeders this winter. Right now I'm colonizing wax worms, meal worms, super worms, and lobster roaches. Also a handful of silkworms, but those are personal until I get some dwarf mulberries (very hard to find!). But yeah, lobster roaches. If you haven't looked into em, they are very high in calcium and are way more meaty than crickets. No smell either which = big smiles all around. Easy to keep and very prolific breeders. About the same size as crickets (full grown 1 1/4". The only problem is that they're really only good for arboreal species since they love to climb glass. I'm working on orange headed roaches too, but they are much more expensive. I don't plan on getting into them, hornworms, hissers, and silkworms (heavily) until next summer.