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SkyGecko287
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Hi! My girlfriend found these forums after my recent adoption of a new Juvenile Leopard Gecko and had to join! :2thumbsup:
I'm loving my new gecko so far, had her (as far I could tell it's a she but I heard it's hard to tell when they are young) for about 3 days now. Seems a little shy and spends most of her time inside of her cave/hide that I got her. I hope to have her be a part of the family for a long time, and many happy memories to come.
I tried holding her for the first time yesterday so I could clean her cage, it took about 30 mins of holding my hand in her cage to crawl up on it, I didn't want to just pick her up because I was worried she was already stressing out enough about the move and new environment. Luckily she finally crawled onto my hand willingly, she seems to love trying to crawl up my arm, lol.
I just had a quick question, as far as checking the temperature with a digital thermometer with a probe, do I just tape it onto the reptile carpet to get an accurate reading? I heard that only ground temp is important since they absorb heat through their bellies. Right now it's reading about an average of 92ish on the warm side.
Also I'm feeding her about 4 calcium-with-vitamin-d3 dusted meal-worms a day, I bought a container of 50 from P******t. They told me they are already gutted but I was thinking about throwing some carrots or something like that in the container and leave it out of the fridge for a day for them to eat to be more well-gutted.
So anyways, Hi everyone and I'm sure I'll have lots of questions to ask over time, lol. :main_thumbsup:
Edit: Oh and here's some pics of my new Leo. Sorry a little blurry. xD
I'm loving my new gecko so far, had her (as far I could tell it's a she but I heard it's hard to tell when they are young) for about 3 days now. Seems a little shy and spends most of her time inside of her cave/hide that I got her. I hope to have her be a part of the family for a long time, and many happy memories to come.
I tried holding her for the first time yesterday so I could clean her cage, it took about 30 mins of holding my hand in her cage to crawl up on it, I didn't want to just pick her up because I was worried she was already stressing out enough about the move and new environment. Luckily she finally crawled onto my hand willingly, she seems to love trying to crawl up my arm, lol.
I just had a quick question, as far as checking the temperature with a digital thermometer with a probe, do I just tape it onto the reptile carpet to get an accurate reading? I heard that only ground temp is important since they absorb heat through their bellies. Right now it's reading about an average of 92ish on the warm side.
Also I'm feeding her about 4 calcium-with-vitamin-d3 dusted meal-worms a day, I bought a container of 50 from P******t. They told me they are already gutted but I was thinking about throwing some carrots or something like that in the container and leave it out of the fridge for a day for them to eat to be more well-gutted.
So anyways, Hi everyone and I'm sure I'll have lots of questions to ask over time, lol. :main_thumbsup:
Edit: Oh and here's some pics of my new Leo.
Sorry a little blurry. xD
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