Large Leopard Gecko Vivarium: need advice

[tims95]

I'm building a large vivarium for a group of leopard geckos (24'' tall, 48" wide, 16" deep) roughly 90 gallons, and wanted some advice making it look and feel as natural as possible. Here is some of the stuff I wanted to include/going to use.
Live plants: succelents and cacti, nothing poisonous or that will harm the leos.
For a substrate I was going to use half soil half play sand (after being sifted of large peices) one corner I was going to use excavator clay to play a large hide that would fit multiple leos, will make it reinforced.
Using a heat cord for half the tank . Moist hide on the warm end, going to use a bowl for mealworms. I'm probably missing something, advice please.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Leos are solitary geckos and prefer to be kept alone. Two females, maybe. But even females kept together for years can suddenly turn on each other with disastrous results.

http://www.geckosunlimited.com/comm...-behaviour-badly-injured-female-pictures.html

For more ideas for your build, check right here: Vivarium

Here are some ideas from a current thread: http://www.geckosunlimited.com/comm...-info-intros-pics/72653-leopard-vivarium.html Realize that you posted on this latter thread.

 

[blazingecko11]

You might as well put something a lot larger in a vivarium that big! I mean come on, were talking about leopard geckos here.. The biggest i'd ever go or really anyone, is a 40 breeder. Even for giants/ super giants they only need a 40 or anything 36 inches. other than that, they're relatively small reptiles compared to most. Than yeah, what elizabeth said, they dont really prefer living with others unless both females and have been with each other since day one. its just an unfortunate risk to have geckos fighting and being severely injured..