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I just received two African Fat-Tail gecko babies. I have them on paper towels, but know that they need to get calcium from somewhere. I heard to use a calcium dish, but I don't know if I need to put the calcium powder that I use for dusting my crickets in the dish, or if I can use really fine grain calci-sand (the smallest granules). If someone could answer my question, I would appreciate it.

I dont recomend calcium sand for 2 reasons. One, your gecko might get impaction if your not carefull. calci-sand are one of the things the pet market sells to unwary hobbyist to get fat profit (excuse my wordings). Second, Fat tails are more of savannah/ woodland creatures rather than desert dwellers. Your better of with a calcium dish and drop a few meallies in the dish if you like (sorta like extra meals for the geckos if they ever go hungry at night when u sleep)

but what exactly do I put in the calcium dish? Something like Rep-cal or Repto-Cal?

yes use the same powder you dust your insects with and just put it somewhere in the cage

I usually use the dish as a feeding dish as well