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Firewind
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So here it is. Ashley's mom gave us her old 30x12 aquarium, and we wanted to upgrade our smaller 24x12 aquarium that has our two youngest gecko's in it. So I did some research, and most of you said you use tile or slate, and I wanted a natural look. I found that Home Depot had natural slate 16x16 tiles. I used 3 tiles all together, and still have some left over. I also used two sets of heating cord which I got for a very cheap price ($5) which I insulated and the floor temp at the bottem is about 78 degrees.
I used moss to fill in cracks and some Eco Earth as well. I glued some of the moss in place to keep crickets from trying to get away from me too easily.
Here is hide number one, the top is not glued down, and sits there loose, but has support to keep it from tipping and it has been ballenced.
This is the back side of hide number 1.
This is the humid hide, which they just love!
I am most likely going to modify it more, since they really seem to like to hide in tight areas. We had to really check and test the temperature of the tiles and the hides, we kept getting temps of 110+! (Before we put the geckos) so I had to change the heat bulb to a very low temperature, and use mainly UTH for it. Which works really well.
They seem to love it, and they love to hide from us some times too. They don't seem to have any problems hunting crickets either. It definitely gives them a lot more places to climb hide.
Drawbacks: Ok so this is really cool looking and stuff, right? Except, how do I clean it? It's basically like taking a puzzle apart and putting it back together to clean it. So for now I'll only clean off what needs to be cleaned off, a few tiles here and there, and only once and while do a full cleaning.
I used moss to fill in cracks and some Eco Earth as well. I glued some of the moss in place to keep crickets from trying to get away from me too easily.
Here is hide number one, the top is not glued down, and sits there loose, but has support to keep it from tipping and it has been ballenced.
This is the back side of hide number 1.
This is the humid hide, which they just love!
I am most likely going to modify it more, since they really seem to like to hide in tight areas. We had to really check and test the temperature of the tiles and the hides, we kept getting temps of 110+! (Before we put the geckos) so I had to change the heat bulb to a very low temperature, and use mainly UTH for it. Which works really well.
They seem to love it, and they love to hide from us some times too. They don't seem to have any problems hunting crickets either. It definitely gives them a lot more places to climb hide.
Drawbacks: Ok so this is really cool looking and stuff, right? Except, how do I clean it? It's basically like taking a puzzle apart and putting it back together to clean it. So for now I'll only clean off what needs to be cleaned off, a few tiles here and there, and only once and while do a full cleaning.
. Nice to see a real natural set-up rather then one with some just some loose sand which is not really natural for them. They look very happy and curious 