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I just built a nice 25 x 16 x 16 cage for my male leo and one form my female. my female is about 50g and my little male is about 14. what would be good for them besides paper towels.
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I assume they are in two different cages?? For the female you could use washed play sand and for the male you could you slate.
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Josh
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for sand, i personally like the bone-aid calci-sand by T-rex. im sure a lot of people will think im dumb for this. i used it for almost 3 years, and i the only reason i stopped was the money. i NEVER had any problems with this, but i did have 1 gecko die of impaction from the play sand. accourding to the bag, the bone-aid is fully digestable and all that, and i dont doubt it.
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your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself, "where is my mind"

I used it for a long time too, but once you get so many leos, 12 bucks for bag that barely fills a 10 gallon becomes costly...
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I highly recomend to not go with any loose substrate. The reason being that leos can get impacted on it and its not fun at all trying to treat them :-[. But some leos doing fine on sand and others cant be kept on it but why risk it. If you dont want to use paper towels go with slate, its safe and actually looks pretty nice. :-]