Recent content by HannahJill12

Today when I woke up my leos's tail had fallen off. I only have him, so it wasn't a problem with housemates. He had been hiding on the cooler side of his tank for about 2-3 weeks, but we had lifted his cave twice (one of those times being last night) and he seemed to have enough food and the...

I feed my gecko about 6 small mealworms every night. I'm going on a vacation in a few weeks and was hoping to get him on an every other day feeding schedule to help the person feeding him. Is it possible to get him to every other day, and if so how much should I feed him?

I bought my gecko in the winter so I got an under tank heater and an overhead ceramic heater to keep temperatures up. Now that it's getting warmer I'm not sure how to keep the heat at a decent temperature. The air temp is now at 87 with both but it's before it got warm the air temp was around...

I've had my gecko for 3 months. I started putting my hand in the cage and letting him check it out about 2 months ago, but life got in the way and I had to stop handling for a while. Now that I'm able to try again I'm nervous that he'll be too jumpy to handle. How do I tame him so we can both be...

I got my first leopard gecko today but I'm concerned about the temperature on the warm side. I have an under tank heater and I bought a ceramic heater later because the temperature was reading 67 F. With the ceramic heater, my digital thermometer reads 78.6 F when stuck to the wall but when I...