Rack housing

[leomast101]

Can some people please show me some of your housing boxes for the racks:main_robin: :vanish: :sweatdrop: :sunny:

 

[trizzypballr]

pretty simple. water, food, calcium. and a humid hide/lay chamber. thats a 15 qt setup. You dont need the calcium bowl, you can add calcium in the mealworm bowl if you would like

 

[LeopardGeckoMom52688]

I didn't keep it simple. And you can tell from the outside that they look kinda real. Here are some of my nice ones.

These are my favorite ones. The rest of mine have two hides or so and a water dish, I keep my meal worms in my calcium because then I kno my geckos are getting some calcium.

 

[Kirksherps]

rack

this is my basic hatchling setup. food, water and a hide. Kirk

 

[gecko breeder]

how many females can be housed it a 30 quart tube.

 

[trizzypballr]

2-3 depending on how they act together i guess

 

[KHGeckos]

humid hide, dish of food, and calcium dish. i like to keep them as basic as possible. its much easier to keep clean. here's a pic i took after cleaning day.

 

[trizzypballr]

hmm, did you miss a water bowl? I hope the poor geckos have water

 

[KHGeckos]

they get their water from the humid hide. moist paper towel and water builds up on the sides.

 

[leomast101]

thnx

 

[leomast101]

Do you keep the humid hide on the warm side

 

[realbg]

What type of rack do you use to house the geckos?

 

[fabian60115]

I USE THE SAME METHOD. I CALL IT THE JL METHOD.:main_thumbsup: :main_yes:

 

[bethanboys]

Stupid question and probably I'll get my answer the more I keep reading the housing threads - but do you put the lids on these plastic containers? I see breathing holes cut in the sides, but what about a lid? Or can the leo gecko not crawl out?
Or - looking closer at the pictures, do you just have racks that fit the dimension of the container so that it creates a "roof" over the container and thus no need for a lid?

Am I making sense? haha

 

[bethanboys]

Oh and one more stupid question.

I've heard mention of "back heating" or something like that for these rack housing systems. What exactly is that? I'm assuming you can't use an UTH with plastic storage containers. ?

Thanks for your patience with all of my questions!

 

[Double LY]

Your questions aren't stupid. Most racks are designed to create the "roof" effect that you are talking about (commercial racks will even tell you what size/brand of tub they are created for). Back heat is just what it says - the heating element (flexwatt/heattape/whatever) is ran on the back of the rack rather than along each shelf.

 

[Leopardbreeder]

For geckos use belly heat though! He is a picture of my bins. Very simple, but very good. Food,water,dry hide, moist hide, calcium and paper towels for substrate.

Also note that the calcium is in a separate bowl now, the calcium keeps better and I don't need to change it more than once a week.