YES get rid of the calci sand and the bark asap. Calci sand is bad in more ways then one. It can impact your leos, which will end in death. Bark and any other particle substrate such as aspen and sani chips, i personally don't recommend either for leos, and especially not babies due to hunting for food (crix) they can eat mouthsful of the chips and that's just as bad as calci sand except bark,aspen, anmd sani chips can rip the insides apart and they can bleed internally.

I use papertowels for everything. You could also use, tile, newspaper, slate, ceramic tiles, or playsand for adults, but again i don't recommend sand for any use ever.

Temps should be 85-90 hot side and 70-75 cool side. You could use a digital probe thermometer or a temp gun. Both are great and accurate. Stick ons can be up 20 degrees off.

You said you dust the crix, how many times a week? Should be only about 1/2 times. I also want to say you should have a dish of PURE calcuim in their tanks at all times. They will supply themselves with whateer calcuim they need when they need it.

Don't feed oatmeal or veggies or anything of that sort. Only feed crix and mealies. Try pulling the legs off the crix, or using a tweezers to feed.

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