How is my setup doing?

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Prometheus777

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Hello everyone! Finally got to post on this forum. I am new here by the way.

So I bought a Gold Dust Day Gecko 9th of August at a reptile expo. It's four months old. It hatched the 1st of May 2014.

Enclosure: Exo Terra Small Tall 18x18x24 inches
Lighting: compact top fixture with reptile uvb 100 13W both by exo terra and normal light bulb
Temperature: hotspot during day goes from 100-90 F ambient 80 F and night 78-72 F
Humidity/water: mist daily I also keep live plants in there as well as medium water dish
Nutrition: Repashy Crested Gecko diet powder and fruit flies (its hard for him to see where the repashy meal dish is since its on the bottom close to the doors)
Substrate: lava rock as drainage, bio drain mesh, plantation soil

Should I purchase Exo Terra's Reptile UVB 200 26W? Or is that too much since he hangs out like 4-5 inches away from the light bulb?

How can I know if its a male or female?

Is there anything I can add to make it seem better? Exo Terra product recommendations are the best but anything else is good too

Thanks in advance Im looking forward to comments and answers!

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kylehca

kylehca

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Bumping this post,
I think you are doing an amazing job with your setup.
I am in the process of getting a Gold Dust as well.
I plan to use the 13 watt bulbs with the compact top.
 
Tamara

Tamara

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Nice setup, but it could use some additional bamboo, and please do NOT use the Exo Terra UV-B bulbs, they are worthless, get the Zoomed reptisun 5.0, they are much, much better.

For the gender, if it's a male it will have pores but it might be to young to tell yet.
 
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