Tyler Lawrence
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I want to make a bioactive tank in a 12 x 12 x 18 but I want to know if when I put the springtails an isopods in if they will escape?
Question about a bioactive crested gecko setup
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It's unlikely that they will escape and if they do, they won't survive. I have many bioactive enclosures and have more trouble with escaped crickets. I've never seen an escaped isopod or springtail. On another note, though I have, through necessity, kept adult crested geckos in a 12x12x18, I think it's really too small and feel that an 18x18x18 (or even better, 18x18x24) is best for them. It's possible, just not ideal.
Aliza
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Elizabeth Freer
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Welcome to Geckos Unlimited, Tyler.
Go for the largest enclosure you can afford! Your crestie, even if young now, will appreciate all that vertical space.
Stay in touch.
Go for the largest enclosure you can afford! Your crestie, even if young now, will appreciate all that vertical space.
Stay in touch.
Tyler Lawrence
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Could I keep a few crested geckos in a 24 L X 18 W X 36 H tank?
Thanks for all the help
Thanks for all the help
Tyler Lawrence
New member
Could I keep a few crested geckos in a 24 L X 18 W X 36 H tank?
Thanks for all the help
Thanks for all the help
Elizabeth Freer
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You're welcome.
Is this your first crestie or gecko? Geckos can live into their 20s or even longer. Wait until the novelty wears off before getting more geckos.
I'm sorry. I don't have any experience keeping cresties in groups. For sure you'd only want females in a group.
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I agree it's a good idea to start with one crested gecko and add more later. Be aware, that for some reason, most of the cresties for sale seem to be male and if you get a young one, there will be no way to sex them. I had a pair of cresties together in an 18x18x24 that did well together and bred for me. When I had to stop breeding I separated them and put another female in with the original female. That did not go well.
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KattsKritters
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Co-habit with many species is not always a good idea .... I have had bad results myself with 2 males but there are others who have done so with no issues.
Harry_Head
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Not sure whether I can ask a new question on this or have to start a new post....but it’s kinda related....what plants would people recommend?? I have a peace lolly at the moment and it’s just constantly wilted. Thanks 
Elizabeth Freer
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I've had great luck with sansevieria that are planted in terra cotta pots or even plastic pots.
Custom Soil Mix especially for Sansevieria (snake plant): no fertilizer
Cresties are hard on plants, because they bounce around like Tigger. Use resilient plants like sansevieria.
Plant sansevieria in terra cotta pots or plastic pots. CrestedRick's cork bark round planters work fine too.
I plant most my sansevieria in this custom mix or in fertilizer-free sandy soil. They do well.
Custom Soil Mix especially for Sansevieria (snake plant): no fertilizer
Cresties are hard on plants, because they bounce around like Tigger. Use resilient plants like sansevieria.
Plant sansevieria in terra cotta pots or plastic pots. CrestedRick's cork bark round planters work fine too.
I plant most my sansevieria in this custom mix or in fertilizer-free sandy soil. They do well.
- 2/3 Wonder Worm Earth Worm Castings (pure form of humus)
- 1/3 Eco Earth coco fiber
Grafton
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Right now mine has Fittonia albivenis, Codiaeum variegatum, Dracaena compacta, and Scindapsus pictus.
They are all on this list from Josh's Frogs but I didn't buy them, they were in this florists-delivery-gift-bowl-o-plants that somebody was throwing away. It also has a few different Homalomena that I didn't use because they seem too delicate to get bounced on even by my relatively sedate gecko. I have that too-small 12x12x18 ZooMed front-opening tank, and sometimes she does kinda tear things up bouncing around, especially when she's shedding and rubbing on stuff in an itchy freak-out.
They are all on this list from Josh's Frogs but I didn't buy them, they were in this florists-delivery-gift-bowl-o-plants that somebody was throwing away. It also has a few different Homalomena that I didn't use because they seem too delicate to get bounced on even by my relatively sedate gecko. I have that too-small 12x12x18 ZooMed front-opening tank, and sometimes she does kinda tear things up bouncing around, especially when she's shedding and rubbing on stuff in an itchy freak-out.
Entomologist210
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I've seen escaped isopods, but since they (like the springtails) require high humidity they expire within a short time after the escape. I like begonias, creeping fig and Trandescantia sp., Peperomia sp. for my vivariums. Here's a shot of my viv I built for my Crestie, Echo.
