Natural Substrate

[Fanatic]

I am planning to redo my entire leopard gecko enclosure to best reflect on their natural habitat, and my original plan to focus on was to change the substrate and find a good mixture of different types of sand and soil to create something similar to their wild environment.

I was planning on using:

ZooMed Excavator Clay
Play Sand
Eco Earth
Gravel

The excavator clay will not be hardened, instead I planned on mixing it into some moistened sand and eco earth to create a lighter color but with some rocky chunks throughout the substrate. I also wanted to put in some gravel to achieve a rubble like appearance, and then accented with larger rocks around the tank.

Is this alright?

 

[Geecko123]

make sure the gravel is not sharp and i think it will be great, don't make any tunnels in it unless you have paper towel rolls or even rocks to support it, as excavator clay is known to collapse. I think this is a great idea though!
good luck:biggrin:

 

[Fanatic]

make sure the gravel is not sharp and i think it will be great, don't make any tunnels in it unless you have paper towel rolls or even rocks to support it, as excavator clay is known to collapse. I think this is a great idea though!
good luck:biggrin:

Great! I am probably going to get a smooth pebble gravel, my local pet store has a 20lb bag of it. Thanks!