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What is good to put in a hide to make it the humid hide? Also, does the hide need to be located on the hot end of the tank?

I believe soil or peat moss is the best substrate, if you geckos dont eat vermiculite, then you can use vermiculite as well.
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Sphaghnum moss (not peat) is fairly safe. Torn strips of paper towel would work, too. If it doubles as a laying box, plain potting soil (without perlite or vermiculite) works well.

I use moss I bought at the feed store mixed in with a little sand/vermiculite (for the adults) mixture. Everyone here always says to use spagnum but I have yet to find anything on the package that says spagnum so I believe my moss is peat and I don't have any troubles with it. I used to put my hides on the warm end and cool end but they always prefer the warm end. You could do like I did and put two in there and see which one they use.
Good luck.

If it doesn't say "sphagnum peat moss" it's not peat. It's probably some other type of moss. Peat is decayed sphagnum moss.

I have asked before but no one ever answered me on it. I had wondered why it was better to use spagnum and what the difference was. I have used the same moss now for about a year with no problems so I hope it is fine...I can't seem to find anything different except fake moss.

Sphagnum is usually used because it's a type of moss with very large strands--other types tend to have smaller, finer strands, but are most likely all right.