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Has anyone tried going to CVS and buying calcium and grinding it to give to your geckos, I was wondering If you can do that

I've also heard leopards can't have vitamin A or they can't have beta carotine... what is it?

here's what i got on my supplies (i already have tank and cave)

lizard liner
tank cover
thermometer/humidity guage (i'll get another thermometer from lowes as well
5 gallon under tank heater (for 10 gallon set-up)
hagen aqua glow 15 watta incadescent aquarium lightbulb (is this the right light, I know they are nighttime animals... max watts on my light is 19 i believe
zoo med recptivite reptile vitamins

You should probably get a higher wattage bulb unless the undertank heater is enough to get the temps to a good level. (85-90 on hot side, 80 in middle, around 70-75 on cool side.)

You actually probably don't even need a light bulb. I just use a UTH on half of my ten gallon and it heats it up great. It was actually getting too warm and I had to get a dimmer.
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0.1 Bearded Dragon (Jax)
1.0 Crested Geckos (Vegas)
1.1 White-lined Geckos (Peter and Lois)
0.0.2 Leopard Geckos (Diamond and Sapphire)
0.0.2 Albino Leopard Geckos (Aspen and Apollonia)
1.0 California banded kingsnake (Severus)
0.0.1 Jungle Carpet Python (Draco)
1.1 Green Anoles (Angel and 50-Cent - my students named them!)
1.1 Red Belly Sliders (Hannibal and Starling)
0.0.1 Pacman Frog (Joaquin)
0.1 Lab/Shepard Mix (Chloe)
0.1 Orange Medium Haired Cat (Shera)

Well then 15 watt should be good enough for nightime viewing.

what the name for a night time light?

what's the appropriate word for nightlight for geckos