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I currently own 2 bearded dragons and breed them. I really want to ad some leopards to my collection because i just absolutely love the way they look. I know that they can be housed in relatively small enclosures compared to beardies and that the temps are waaaaaaaaay lower. What would you suggest I start off with? Males, females, both? Should i keep them seperated until I know more about them or is the reeding and care similar to that of bearded dragons? I also know that they can eat mealworms as a staple and i breed mealworms so that isn't a problem of getting and housing food. Thanks for any and all info.

Just start off getting one. They can be housed their hole life in a 10 gallon tank. I currently own 4 beardeds and 19 leos not including hatchlings. Leos are deff easier to house and maintain in my opinion. I use racks to house my leos. I house 1-3 hatchlings in 6qt sterilites until they are about 2 weeks, and then they each get their own 15qt. I house a single male or pairs of females in 32qts and only put the males in with them for a few days at a time when breeding. I use 3" flexwatt for belly heat and control it using a thermostat. I keep my temps about 90 degrees on the warm side and 75-80 on the cool. I also use mealies as a staple diet and have had excellent results. I only use crickets for finicky eaters, then I try and get them over to mealies as soon as I can. I breed the mealies as well which makes keeping leos way less costly then beardeds.
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0.1.0 Yellow/German Giant Beardie (Helga)
1.0.0 Chris Allen red x Red flame bearded
0.1.0 Orange x Redflame bearded (Stevie)
0.1.0 Flaming tiger x Pastel
1.0.0 15 year old Eastern Box Turtles (Radar)
0.1.0 Brown Basilisk (Leroy, I know shes a girl!)
0.1.0 Adopted Beardie (Sissy)
0.1.0 Rescued Beardie missing limb (Lefty) Being taken in by the mid-michigan reptile rescue.

Too many leos to count.....

Start off with just one gecko. It doesn't matter what sex, both can be really tame. If you wanna learn a lot about leos, go to the page I link below.

Leopard Gecko Care
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Leo Land
The best and biggest leopard gecko site on the net!

sorry, here is the working link

Leopard Gecko Care
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Leo Land
The best and biggest leopard gecko site on the net!

Hey there...i just got my beardie...i've had my 4 leo's for a couple months now and have done a lot of research on them...anyway...i agree with everyone else...start off with one...or if you want to eventually breed them...you can house 2 females with 1 male and everything should stay copasetic...from what i've read males get territorial so more than 1 male should be housed seperately...i'd go with a 20 long if i were you...i have 4 in a 20 long and they cohabitate nicely...if you do plan to get males and females...males become sexually mature at about 10 months...whereas females at 12...so if you get a male make sure to pull him out for the extra 2 months of maturity required for females (either way you won't know the sex until after about 6 months)...anyway sorry i'm rambling...

yo get started a 20 gal long with 1 leo or maybe 2 until you get aquanted with keeping them...all they need is a nocturnal light (a red one) and don't need a UV-B or basking lamp...they like to hide...so make sure to include at least 1 hide per gecko (a deli dish with a hole in it does well)...my cage stays around 80-84 degrees on the hot side and around 75-78 on the cool side

sorry rambling again lol...anyway good luck with your leo's...just check the care-sheets on the site and read thru some postings...this site did me very well when it came to learning about these guys...again good luck ;D

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