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The first person has just submitted a photo essay for this series and it will run on Jan. 26. Will you be the next? Check the post above. It's really easy!

Aliza

I don't have experience with golden geckos, but since there is no skin breakage, burned look or dried out look I would imagine that it's OK.

Aliza

Mr. Blue is a L. williamsi (electric blue day gecko). It's hard to get a good picture without him fleeing, sometimes out of the cage!

Aliza

Ideally you'll be dusting the feeders with calcium and vitamin D3. You don't need the lights at all since the gecko is nocturnal, as long as there's ambient light in the room.

Aliza

My favorite cricket ordering place is tophatcrickets.com. I would order 1/4". Initially you'll have to feed more of the small ones, but they'll grow and then you won't have to feed so many at once....

As promised, here is the first photo essay about what goes on in my house: https://geckotime.com/what-goes-on-in-my-house-aliza-arzt/.
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Back when I had fewer gecko cages to "decorate" I would do a google image search for landscape pictures of the leopard gecko's native habitat (Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan), print them out, glue...

Gecko Time will be starting a new series beginning tomorrow (1/13/21). The series is called "What Goes on in My House?!" and will be photo essays of geckos in our homes. We really want other...

It definitely looks like a P.m.grandis to me. If so, it will get pretty big and may need a larger enclosure than a 30 gallon eventually.

Aliza

I order 3000 crickets every 2 weeks. I keep 2000 3/4" crickets in a 10 gallon. The trick is to have lots of egg crate to stack up so they have somewhere to stand. I also buy water crystals in bulk...

I actually don't keep mealworms anymore because I don't have anything that eats them and I also have a sensitivity to them (which could happen to you, so don't breathe them in). At one point I...

Welcome to the forum and congrats on your new gecko. The pictures look great.

Aliza

In the situation where I had heat cable at the back, I was heating shoebox size tubs so it worked fine. You may have to experiment a bit to see how far the heat is going.

Aliza

I've been extremely happy with tophatcrickets.com. They sell another type of crickets (banded crickets) which are much cuter than the usually crickets for what it's worth (they also jump REALLY...

It's called a paradox spot which means exactly what you said: a spot that doesn't seem to belong based on the rest of the pattern. It's normal and it's probably permanent.

Aliza

Here's the link for the gut load: https://shop.professionalreptiles.com/Insect-Food-c63585001
I put about 2" of gut load in a medium KritterKeeper (14"x8"x5") and dump the mealworms in. Eventually...

You could put heat tape or a heat mat on the back of each bin. I had a rack that was heated that way. Are you planning to modify those bins in any way? I assume you'll make air holes. The bins,...

There are many stories about people finding live geckos or other small reptiles in products they've bought in other small countries. The author of this article has researched the phenomenon to give...

It's hard to know without a picture, but sometimes they just pee (which is the white stuff) and don't poo.

Aliza

I would need a picture of the whole gecko from above to even make a guess.

Aliza

I have a lot of leopard geckos. My "biggest" gecko is a male who weighs in at about 110 grams and who barely eats. He's probably over 10 years old and I've been hand feeding him, so he gets 4 prey...

Temp gun is fine. 83-85 is on the low side and many people will tell you that it's too low for the gecko, though some of my geckos are sometimes at that temp and they do fine. There's a chance that...

Some geckos fall in love with a particular hide and spend all or most of their time in there. This is not unusual and the gecko will not die from staying in the hide. When you say the temperature is...

Sorry, pictures didn't work. I sent you a PM about emailing to me.

Aliza

I think to some extent it depends on the leo. They tend to like to squeeze into smaller spaces. I measured 3 "favorite" hides of my leos and got 6"x6" and 9"x6".

Aliza