New to leos (sorta) and need pre-buying help

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Melonhelmet

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Too be honest mealworms are best to supplement the diet, the can go off them for a while ut like Ive been told, nutritionally crickets are 1030480348 times better.
 
Jester

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I agree with Melon, meal worms are ok, but you also have to be more weary of your gecko getting impacted by there exoskeleton. I have a friend who kept his gecko on paper towels and he still got impacted from the chitin of the hard shells of meal worms. If you are going to use meal worms feed them when they are freshly molted, (they look much whiter instead of the golden brown you get with those that have harder shells) this will help reduce the amount chitin your gecko will ingest.
you should read this The Pro?s and Con?s of Mealworms as a food for reptiles

If you could find some way to do it, you should incorporate crickets as the staple of your gecko's diet.
 
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Jester said:
I agree with Melon, meal worms are ok, but you also have to be more weary of your gecko getting impacted by there exoskeleton. I have a friend who kept his gecko on paper towels and he still got impacted from the chitin of the hard shells of meal worms. If you are going to use meal worms feed them when they are freshly molted, (they look much whiter instead of the golden brown you get with those that have harder shells) this will help reduce the amount chitin your gecko will ingest.
you should read this The Pro?s and Con?s of Mealworms as a food for reptiles

If you could find some way to do it, you should incorporate crickets as the staple of your gecko's diet.
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I do this:

60% Crickets
20% Mealworms
10% All other feeders :)
 
Jester

Jester

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I was looking and I mean I've never done well in math but something didn't quite add up lol.

as for derailing the thread...ITS PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME:banana:
 
Clink

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Actually, a 10 gallon is too small and everyone keeps telling you this, that they need a MINIMUM of 20g. Just because you had one survive in a 10gallon for 4 years and weekly feedings doesn't mean its being kept properly either, do you understand what everyone is trying to tell you? You can keep (for example) a dog in a 12ft kennel its whole life and it will survive, but do you think its getting everything it needs?
We are just trying to help the gecko, and once you at least admit that yeah its a little small and at least fib and tell us you'll get a bigger tank when it gets older then we may feel better.
A 10 gallon is really only good for a juvie, but they always grow up.
 
Clink

Clink

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Look, how about this! Look on craigslist for your area, or some local bargain trader, and look for people trying to give away larger tanks, I've seen it on there and they generally have an animal inside of some kind. I've gotten my friend a perfectly good bearded dragon with everything it needed for free because someone didn't want the animal anymore.
Is it a money issue? and if it is space, its only a tank that is 10 inches longer, (30inches) that couldn't fit on your dresser or bookshelf?
 
catfishtodd

catfishtodd

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garage sales are good to i got 4 twenty gallon tanks and two 40 gallons for
16 dollars and three of the tanks had heat pads and two heat rocks.
 
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Melonhelmet

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I got my Pacific Tree Frogs 20gal long (used to be my geckos, and then my long taileds, but the are now in exo-terra's) from a garage sale for 5$, when It came time for the frog I fliped it end to end for height. Pacifics dont need heat so its perfect :)
 
Jester

Jester

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I'm 100 percent with clink here, 20 gal is best.
In my opinion you should not get a Leopard Gecko and a tank smaller than 20 gal. Another reason (I don't know if anyone has mentioned it) is you cannot set up a good temperature gradient without at least a 20 gallon. You should only get any pet if you can give it the best care possible. (Weekly feedings, and a small living space don't sound like that to me. ) As Clink pointed out, this doesn't always mean shelling out big bucks. get a cheap tank and get a cheap new table at a garage sale or craisglist if you don't have any surface big enough. That's what I did for my snake.
 
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leopard geckos

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dont feed it spiders but other than that just put sand in there and any type of water dish feed it mealworms twice a week and thats it do what you want
 
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berry

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Ok, for a few years the tank will stay, but I went to a pet store and pointed out how fat the geckos were, so it will be fed 3 times a week. This is an AMAZING reptile guy, and he said a 10 gallon is small, but will keep a leopard gecko. Space is the problem, and my mom isn't going to go bigger. But no sand and feedings 3 times/ week. Happier? And I saw the cutest baby! He was blizzard mixed with high yellow, and seemed to have hints of a line on his back. SOOO cute!
 
Jester

Jester

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Sad

Sadly I think not... I'm going to go in a corner and cry, this thread makes me so sad :(
dont feed it spiders but other than that just put sand in there and any type of water dish feed it mealworms twice a week and thats it do what you want
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That just seems like totally, unacceptable advice without any real proof/thought behind it. I wish you would put a little bit of time at least attempting to research something before giving potentially harmful advice to other people about living animals.
 
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