BrianSchilt56
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- Green Bay, Wisconsin
Hello. My name is Brian. My daughter is Greta, and she is 9 yrs old. She is so into animals of all kinds. I gave in to letting her have a Gecko. I'm glad I did! She's really cool! Of course, I do most of the feeding and such with her. We believe her to be a female because the tail is not very big. But we could be wrong. We did quite a bit of research before getting one. We set up the glass 20 gallon cage first and let it warm up before bringing the Gecko home. We decorated it with some items, and have two houses in it. I'm currently feeding her crickets. I have loading food for the crickets which they are eating, and calcium dusting powder for them. I do have a question though. My cage is only around 70 degrees. I have a heating pad under the left end of the cage, and a heating lamp above. She mostly stays in the tree decoration which is open under it. She's active if I remove the tree, but after putting it back, she goes right in it and stays there. I did observe her eating some crickets when the tree was removed, and she drank some water. I have not seen her do that since she hides under the tree. She seems healthy though. What I don't know is whether I should worry about the temperature or not in the cage. With additional heat added, she seems to go under the tree and stay out of any light. I originally had a bright white heating light, then switched to a red heating lamp. Then I added the under tank heating pad. I almost feel like by her behavior that she's getting too much heat. She is more active if I remove some of it. I think I'll leave that heating pad there though, as I've read they need it for digesting their food. She has many places she can go to get out of the light or heating pad, but never goes to the right side of the cage. I spray some mist on things in the morning to get some humidity in there, and have the half-moon split wood cover with moss under it. I keep the moss moist each morning. But the Gecko has never gone in it so far. I have some pictures I can post. What you all think? Do I have it all set up ok? Is the Gecko warm enough? Thanks for any help.