new to the game need your info on setups

[TheRoachGuy]

Here in the future im looking to get me a leopard gecko and that’s why I joined this forum. For years I have owned b-dragons and now I wanted to try something new and I love the way the geckos look and are very low in maintance. I want a cage system that looks very nice and want cost me a arm and a leg to get it started and I noticed these two options by exo-terra but I don’t know which one would be best for the gecko. I like the way both look and as far as the bottom I will be using tile not the sand or bark that comes with theses kits.
So could someone help me out and tell me which one of these two options would work best for me. Also should it get the 12x12x18 or would the 18x18x18 be best.
Here are the two options
http://www.exo-terra.com/en/products/habitat_kit_desert.php
http://www.exo-terra.com/en/products/habitat_kit_rainforest.php

also if anyone can share pic of there setups to give me ideas or know of other nice setups to buy let me know as well im open to all ideas at this point in time

 

[acpart]

Some people have lovely leopard gecko cages using the exoterra, but in general since leopard geckos aren't arboreal they don't have enough floor space. The cages that have worked well for leopard geckos have incorporated one or two levels made either by building a platform or, if you're more ambitious, making one of those fake rock walls with ledges and caves (in which case you'd remove the background that the exoterra comes with). You can see a gorgeous one on www.vivariums.com. Two other choices (besides just getting a regular 20 gallon long aquarium) are visionariums which run about $70 or something from glasscages.com which would include a sliding glass door or a front opening cage (this is the best cage for the money, I think). If you go with something plainer than an exoterra, search the forum because some people have set up their plain tanks in beautiful ways.

Aliza

 

[Halley]

I think if you go with the exto-terra set-ups. That you should go with the desert one, and the 18 x 18. (Just replace the sand like you said earlier. You might also want to try cage carpeting instead, of tile. I think it looks better, and it is easier to clean, in my opinion.) That is large enough to house a leopard gecko, and most likely could house 2 of them. I don't really have pics, as most of my cages are breeder cages, and my pet cage, is ugly.