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Twitchy

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Hi, I just bought my first 2 leo's named Twitch and Risky. They are just little babies and are very funny. I joined up because this looked like a very good helpful site. I have only been on here for 2 days and have already had so much help and advice. So glad to be here and cant wait to meet the rest of you.

Here is my current set up the heat pad runs alone the back left corner to about half way in and half way across let me know if it looks okay.

Thank You!
Cory

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gordmit

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I'm new at this too--have a similar setup and just got rid of the sand that came with it. I am worried about temperature--Started with a 75 watt red heat lamp but the temp never reached above 85degrees so I bought a second and put it on a 9 hour timer for daylight. Now I think I'm too hot. There is a small heat pad under her moist hide. Am I overthinking this?!?!
 
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2bacop

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gordmit said:
I'm new at this too--have a similar setup and just got rid of the sand that came with it. I am worried about temperature--Started with a 75 watt red heat lamp but the temp never reached above 85degrees so I bought a second and put it on a 9 hour timer for daylight. Now I think I'm too hot. There is a small heat pad under her moist hide. Am I overthinking this?!?!
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You should really get a heat pad that goes under half the tank, not just the moist hide. Than the temps should be fine. You can keep the red heat lamp if you want to help warm the air temps or for light but it is really not needed. Do you have a therm. with a probe that touches the ground. The floor temp should be about 90-95 degrees. on the warm side
 
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Twitchy

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Thank you all for the warm welcome already met a few of you and its be awesome.
 
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Snowy & Petra de Gecko

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Welcome

Howdy & Welcome to the forum.

Lights are not really needed ... get a pad 1/3 to 1/2 on one side of the tank. Not in the middle.

You can use lights but you gotta be careful.


Have fun on the forum.
 
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Pepper

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Nice set up, and keep an eye on your gecko's, if they grow up and are two males, they will probably eventually fight and could injure each other. If they are two females they could fight also, or one could bully another. And if you have a male and female...well....ya know...But if you do have one male and one female, you probably would want to separate them because the male would be bugging the female too much.

So be prepared to separate if necessary.
 
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