Healthy vivarium?

[Spleekly]

Hello all! I haven’t seen any videos or articles on how to check on the health of a vivarium. What signs should I look for? What are the good signs and bad signs? Could you guys help me out?

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

You're almost "there", Spleekly! :banana: You've got a well-planted enclosure with textured climbing vines! Consider adding a second vine or twisting another vine around the vine you already have.

Instead of a ground-level coconut hide, I recommend a fat bamboo tube or a cork bark tunnel leaning diagonally against the glass. That's my crestie's sleeping "bag" every single night!

Reptile shows are often good sources for cork bark.

Does your gecko have ~4-6 ounce water dish?

Some folks use magnetic feeding ledges. I just fill a plastic pot with hydroton (clay culture marbles) & cover that with porous weed block cloth. I place my crestie's feeding dish on top of the week block cloth. Now and then I spray the hydroton.

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[Spleekly]

Thank you! I took my friend who breeds geckos to go shopping for supplies with me. He told me to get the coconut hide which I’ve discovered has been pretty useless T-T

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Thank you! I took my friend who breeds geckos to go shopping for supplies with me. He told me to get the coconut hide which I’ve discovered has been pretty useless T-T

You're welcome, Spleekly!

Just saying . . . . . . that my crestie George doesn't mind a snug fit. George enters his bamboo tube head first. However he exits butt first.