Thermostat/Tubs Question

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hyposhawn

Newbie
I have a few questions.

Thermostat questions.

1. Can it be monitor temperature for multiple tubs?
2. Should I use heat tape for the tubs?

Tubs Questions

3. I know I posted this before but where do I get 15 qt. tubs?

Thanks everyone for all your help. I just want to make sure I'm doing things right.
 
Allee Toler

Allee Toler

Member
Go to walmart.com. Look for Rubbermaid Clever Store 15qt tubs, do "ship to store" or "site to store" whichever it says, and buy them online, and pick them up at walmart. Or you could go into your walmart and look. Some hold them, some don't, but they're on the site.

If you have heat tape (which is suggested), you can hook up the thermostat to the heat tape, which controls the temp for the entire heat tape. So whatever you put on the heat tape will be controlled by the one thermostat.
 
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hyposhawn

Newbie
Thankyou. So that means it heats multiple racks?

I will try to answer my questions now.

1. ?
2. Yes
3. WalMart

Thanks and what is number 1s answer?
 
Allee Toler

Allee Toler

Member
They should come with a "starter kit". when you order them, ask for extras.

Go to your walmart and look for them if you can't find them on their site.
 
Riverside Reptiles

Riverside Reptiles

Administrator (HMFIC)
Dude, look around online. If you can't find the tub at walmart, try target or walgreens or something similar. Home depot, lowes, etc. As for the thermostat and heat tape, it all depends on what you buy. Look at stuff from bean farm, big apple herp, or one of the hundreds of other herp related web sites. Look at the classifieds at kingsnake.com under heating. It's fine to ask questions, but as I've told you a ton of times before, you need to put some of your own research in to it as well. When I was your age, we didn't even have any internet. We had to find everything on our own. So, with resources like the internet at your disposal, I'm confident that you can come up with some of your own answers instead of relying on everyone else to tell you what to do. Have you even tried doing a search on here for "tubs" or "thermostats" or "heating"??? The answers to many of your questions are likely already there if you'd bother to take your own time to find them instead of expecting everyone else to do it for you. If you start helping yourself, you'll likely find that others are more likely to want to help you.
 
Riverside Reptiles

Riverside Reptiles

Administrator (HMFIC)
Just look for rubbermaid or sterlite 15 qt storage containers. It doesn't have to be the same exact ones as Allee uses. You'd be best off just going to Walmart and looking at what they have. They'll have an entire isle of just those type of containers.
 
Riverside Reptiles

Riverside Reptiles

Administrator (HMFIC)
I'm curious why you want to put your geckos in tubs? You only own 3 geckos. I would think that you would want to have them in nice glass enclosures with a somewhat naturalistic set up? Most people that use tubs/racks do so because they have too so many geckos that they can't house them in nice set ups.
 
Allee Toler

Allee Toler

Member
Riverside Reptiles said:
I'm curious why you want to put your geckos in tubs? You only own 3 geckos. I would think that you would want to have them in nice glass enclosures with a somewhat naturalistic set up? Most people that use tubs/racks do so because they have too so many geckos that they can't house them in nice set ups.
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He plans to breed. :x


Hyposhawn, no you cannot breed them in these tubs. They're too small. If you get a tub twice as big for just breeding, yes. I use a 41qt long tub where I put in 4 females and 1 male this last season, and had 3 of them set up. After I got my first eggs from each girl, I removed the males and put them back in their tubs, all the females and males went back to their original tubs.
 
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hyposhawn

Newbie
Ok I get it. I am breeding 2 leos. My Hypo, and my Normal poss. het Albino to a Male Mack Snow. So a 30 qt tub will do for breeding 2 females
 
Riverside Reptiles

Riverside Reptiles

Administrator (HMFIC)
Why not just keep your male and two females in a nice tank? And then, once you actually get eggs and hatch them, and have multiple babies, worry about tubs. It's a lot more fun and a lot nicer for the animals to live in a nice naturalistic enclosure. If I could, I'd keep all of my geckos in naturalistic set ups. There's not some rule that you have to keep them in tubs if you want to breed them. It's just that many breeders have hundreds of animals and it's just not efficient to keep them all in complex set ups. If you're keeping just three geckos and keeping them in tubs, you're missing out on the fun of keeping geckos IMHO.
 
CSMGecko

CSMGecko

New member
I agree with Ethan. Get a nice set up and then start breeding after you have watched them and had fun with them first. It sounds like you are trying to do everything the cheap way to make a quick buck. This is not what breeding is for. Breeding is for the purpose of expanding the market and doing right by the animals. I have tanks for all my breeders and tubs for the babies. I have a 50L Gallon, a 20H Gallon and 2 20L Gallon. With a male seperate tank that is 10 Gallon. Then I have been building tubs on needed basis for babies.
 
MauricesExoticPets

MauricesExoticPets

New member
Allee Toler said:
Hyposhawn, no you cannot breed them in these tubs. They're too small.
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You can breed leopard geckos in those 15qt. tubs, you can breed them in 6qt. tubs for that matter, but should not do so out of consideration for the quality of life the geckos should have under your care.

I had to move a large number of leopard geckos to a 6qt. hatchling rack, had many of the females bred within a month, and lay viable eggs. This is far from normal operations for me but I just wanted to lay down the facts.

I am switching from plastic tubs to ½ - 29 Aquariums (30 x 12½ x 6) by glasscages.com for my leopard geckos. I feel the switch will be well worth it, mainly because for some time I have been just caring for a bunch of leopard geckos and enjoying nothing but the blank face of a bunch of tubs.

The switch will take me two years to complete, as I am going from very utilitarian to a more naturalistic method of care and have on the order of 84 leopard gecko enclosures to outfit.

Maurice Pudlo
 
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