Planning on getting my first leopard gecko soon (Younger one), I have most of the tank setup and wanted some opinions on what I have so far. It has been running for a few days.
Mainly asking this because of the massive amount of conflicting information I have read over the past two weeks. I would rather ask people who are currently keeping healthy critters instead of going off of incorrect or outdated information.
I've got a 10 gallon tank with a day and night (IR) bulb, temperatures peak a bit too high mid-day with both lamps on (100-110f). With just the day lamp on it stays around 94f hot side, 80f cool side using thermometers measuring air temperature. Humidity in the cool side is about 55, from what I read i need to lower it to between 20 and 40.
Three hides: warm, cool and moist (Moist is in the cool side of the tank with moss). Substrate is 1/4" thick slate tile (Good luck chomping on that).
I do not have a UTH yet, unsure if I should get a 4x5 or 8x6. Would it be ideal to have the UTH cover the underside of the warm hide?
Shallow water bowl and food bowl, I've read that you can put the calcium powder in the food bowl and they will self-regulate their intake. Was planning on dusting the food with it as well. I intend to feed him/her mainly crickets and mealworms, though I have read that the younger ones can have trouble digesting the mealworm exoskeleton. Something I should be concerned about?
I'm unsure of what to get for a temperature controller, it seems like most of them are only single zone with one temperature probe. The multi-zone ones I have seen with built in timers are hilariously overprice for what they are ($200-300).
What I want to do is have one with at least two probes, one on the bottom of the tank for the UTH and one for the lamp mounted on the side of the tank for air temperature. What do you guys use? From all I've read about UTH, it seems pretty necessary to me to have a probe on top of the UTH, inside the tank.
I'm also considering building a multi channel PID controller for the UTH, hot side and cool side with a built in lighting timer.
Well, that turned into a wall of text pretty quickly. Looking forward to suggestions, I want to get this thing perfect before I go buy my new reptilian overlord.
Mainly asking this because of the massive amount of conflicting information I have read over the past two weeks. I would rather ask people who are currently keeping healthy critters instead of going off of incorrect or outdated information.
I've got a 10 gallon tank with a day and night (IR) bulb, temperatures peak a bit too high mid-day with both lamps on (100-110f). With just the day lamp on it stays around 94f hot side, 80f cool side using thermometers measuring air temperature. Humidity in the cool side is about 55, from what I read i need to lower it to between 20 and 40.
Three hides: warm, cool and moist (Moist is in the cool side of the tank with moss). Substrate is 1/4" thick slate tile (Good luck chomping on that).
I do not have a UTH yet, unsure if I should get a 4x5 or 8x6. Would it be ideal to have the UTH cover the underside of the warm hide?
Shallow water bowl and food bowl, I've read that you can put the calcium powder in the food bowl and they will self-regulate their intake. Was planning on dusting the food with it as well. I intend to feed him/her mainly crickets and mealworms, though I have read that the younger ones can have trouble digesting the mealworm exoskeleton. Something I should be concerned about?
I'm unsure of what to get for a temperature controller, it seems like most of them are only single zone with one temperature probe. The multi-zone ones I have seen with built in timers are hilariously overprice for what they are ($200-300).
What I want to do is have one with at least two probes, one on the bottom of the tank for the UTH and one for the lamp mounted on the side of the tank for air temperature. What do you guys use? From all I've read about UTH, it seems pretty necessary to me to have a probe on top of the UTH, inside the tank.
I'm also considering building a multi channel PID controller for the UTH, hot side and cool side with a built in lighting timer.
Well, that turned into a wall of text pretty quickly. Looking forward to suggestions, I want to get this thing perfect before I go buy my new reptilian overlord.
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