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Last Thursday I got in a (supposedly) 1.1 pair of P. lineata bombetokensis (CB18). Thus far they have taken fruit flies and licked a jelly pot (only a treat - I need the pot) but have refused calci worms, Arcadia StickyFootGold, Arcadia ReptiGold, and Arcadia FruitBuzz jelly. For some reason my...

Hello, So I've had my leopard gecko, Speckles, for just under a year now (although I have owned a leopard gecko previous to this) and so he's about a year and a half old. Before I ask my question, here's a run down of his enclosure: 60x45x30 Exo Terra, 30cm long canopy with 7% UVB bulb...

Hello all, I'm always interested in providing my animals with as natural an environment as I possibly can. Currently my leopard gecko lives in a live-planted, bioactive Vivarium with UVB lighting and non-synthetic supplements. To try and make it even more natural, I've been thinking about...

Hello, As you know it's around mid September now and where I live the temperatures are starting to drop. My crested gecko has various bulbs over his enclosure (13w Jungle Dawn, 10% Arcadia compact UVB, 25w Exo Terra daytime heat lamp) that keep it warm throughout the day but no night time...

Thought I'd add some pictures to show Splat's growth rate: Here's Splat on the 3rd of February... And here he is very near the same place as he is in the last one, but he's much bigger! And this is him on the 2nd of August. You can't really tell that he's much bigger, but he's actually 12g...

Many people claim that crested geckos will happily live on a diet of CGD without any live insects. However, I do not believe this to be the case. I got my crested gecko, Splat, on the 26th December, 2017. He ate Repashy for the first two months with some insects every week/fortnight, but then...

Attached are some images of my crested gecko, Splat. As you can see, he's grown very quickly - from 1.5g at the very end of December 2016 to 32g at the end of July 2017! Anyway, I'm wondering what his EXACT morph is - I'm quite certain that he's a red harlequin, but I'm wondering about other...

Hello all! Some of you may remember that a few months ago I began a thread called 'Suddenly gone off CGD' where I spoke about my creates gecko's diminishing appetite for Repashy. At the time he was 3/4 (meaning 3 or 4, not 'three quarters'; let's avoid confusion this time!) grams and I am happy...

My crested gecko, Splat, has stopped eating CGD. I got him at Christmas and at first he ate his Repashy every night, which was great seeing as he'd never ate it before. After the first month he started eating every few days and now he just won't touch Repashy. This has been the case for nearly...

I'll start from the beginning. I got Cleo, my female wild type leopard gecko in mid April 2014. From this time, she has always been a very poor hunter and has had a lower jaw which does not sit flush with her upper. She has always been a fussy feeder, very lazy and pretty slow - very...

As anybody who knows anything about leopard geckos, they are generally regarded as carnivores and treated as insectivores. Occasionally you will hear new owners asking whether they can feed their new leopard gecko any plant matter and the answer is pretty much a straight 'no'. Up until this...

I am currently using a heat mat for my Leo, but I don't feel that the heat it gives off is as good as what I had when I was using a CHE. In the near future I'm going to order a dome fitting to put my CHE into and do away with the mat (I have change viv since going to a heat mat and they are...

For Christmas I got my first crested gecko! He/she was hatched in October and appears to be a harlequin and he/she fires up to a dark, chocolate brown with striking orange dorsal a and laterals. He/she may fire up more than this; I don't yet know. I named him/her Splat and he/she weighs a...

So in just over a month I should be getting a crested gecko (yay!) and I am wondering about what to feed it. I already have Repashy CGD, although I am not sure on what version because it has the picture that is on their website (purple writing with the gecko looking forwards but different...

A few months ago (June) I changed my leopard gecko's traditional vivarium out with an Exo terra terrarium. I started off with one of their 'sand mats', which looked nice but was highly impractical. I also got her a new hide, called the 'small gecko cave' that she most definitely took a liking...