Planning to get Leopard Gecko

[evilxyardxgnome]

I use wet paper towel in my humid hides. Tried moss, but it got nasty and the leos kept accidentally getting it in their mouths. I'd be afraid of the same with any type of loose substrate. My humid hides are dark anyway, so papertowel works just fine and isn't an eyesore!

Agreed, wet paper towel in the moist hide is what I used as well.

 

[dragogreen]

sweet! i'll stick with wet paper towel then

 

[dragogreen]

Update:

I have notice the previous owner of the leopard gecko did not take good care of her shedding because i notice some red layer of skin on her toes (this worries me). I've read to put her in about 1/2 a inch of lukewarm water but it seems that my leopard doesn't want to be caught/handled? what would be the best way to approach this? Perhaps just trying keeping her in her humid hide and when she comes out qtip her toes to get the skin off?

Also I have the temps on the warm side to about 85 degree but notice one day i fed her one wax worm and when i saw her feces it looked like a large black piece compared to her "small usual white ones that looks like bird droppings" (it seems she didnt digest it well at all). So far this would be a week that i have had her. She eats and hunts crickets very easily but have trouble sometimes grabbing mealworms that are about a inch long.

Thanks everyone for the advice

 

[coura]

First if you see she has trobble eating mealworms, cut on them for now or use only newly molted ones, the white ones. The poop your descriving its normal, liquid feces is what you need to wach out for trobble. As for shedding of thouse toes, try to mantain the moist, if in like a few days it doesant come of then you have to remove it by hand with a pair of twezers. And yup doing that on a wringling gecko is tricky, but try just the moist and then we will see

 

[sarae]

I generally try to keep mine between 88 and 92 degrees on the warm side to help with digestion. Waxworms aren't a good food item though, they're basically fatty treats that she can easily become addicted to. Mealworms are fine though.

As far as the shedding, for forced-shedding I usually used a smallish critter keeper (something with a vented lid) and i'd put the warm water and a wet paper towel in there and then just put in the leo and close the lid. That way it had no choice but to stay on it. Just be careful that you don't leave her in for so long that the water becomes cold.

 

[dragogreen]

Thanks for the tip Coura and Sarae, yeah i only fed her one wax worm because of that fat but i shall stop feeding that to her due to possible addiction. I will stick with meal worms for now. I'll try the locking container in the tank so it doesn't get too cold for her with some warm water in it for about 20 to 30 mins and see how that goes.!
MFK is awesomeness lol

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Crickets are better for them and are much easier to gut load than those god awful mealworms.

 

[dragogreen]

lol Vicious your right about that but i purchase about 1000 meal worms haha. Crickets are hard to keep alive. I am trying to breed the meal worms, i have bran/oatmeal along with crickets quencher + calcium for them to eat/drink.

 

[ozz465]

U can also keep them in there hide box and mist them then use tweezers to coax the old shed off. as for mealworms there fine . been feeding my leos mealworms for years and no probs.

 

[dragogreen]

sweet thanks ozz for the tip