grboxa
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Hey guys, first time owner here just want to make sure everything is okay, me and my girlfriend were talking about getting a gecko but always held it off until we took a trip to our local petshop, we werent going to buy anything but they had a promotion so we said go for it, we were told that there the easiest of the geckos to maintain, but we realize we have to have the setup correctly. Now, we have a 10 gallon tank and we had switched from coco husk since we heard it was horrible for it, to very very fine zoo-med sand. I read that sand is bad for the leo's, but a local petsmart employee claimed he breeds geckos and that the sand he recommended was very fine which he uses and would go straight through his system. I have a heatlamp over the warm side, temps are 90-92 surface of subtrate, and 90-94 air, aswell as around 87-89 at night with a blue lamp. Basically my question is about the shedding area, from the picture you can tell theres 2 "hides", I was told that you should ahve a seperate 3rd hide such as a tupperware container, but I think thats really ugly. My question is can I put some coco husk in the hide on the warmside and spray the corner with water and use that as a shed hide?. The little guy likes to lay in the left side of the warm cave, Ive only had him for 3 days but i never seen him go on the right side, so thats where I want to put the husk. I just really think that the tupperware container would be really ugly and it would be very clustered if I had a 3rd hide. I heard there toes may not always shed right, so if the setup isnt correct if you can recommend me another alternative setup, and if the tupperware method is the 100 percent best then so be it. Thanks alot and sorry for the long post .