Water for the cresite

[donloo66]

I used the search function but i couldn't find anything. so if i missed something don't castrate me :main_laugh:

So here is my question, I live in a very dry desert so the water that i spray onto the fake plants for her to drink dries up rather quickly. i was just wondering how much water crested geckos need to consume daily. by the way she is still young (About 6 months)

thanks in advance!

 

[donloo66]

Talk about spelling errors

 

[Kristi23]

I'm not sure how much they need. I leave a small cup of water in the cages and also mist twice daily.

 

[acpart]

Consider the possibility of switching to a planted tank with real plants including a bromiliad that has those sword shaped leaves where water tends to collect. It will maintain more humidity and possibly the water won't dry up as quickly. I also have a small water dish set into the bottom of the enclosure.

Aliza

 

[hutena]

Bromeliads rot if you get water in them. You have to be careful and water the dirt not the plant. Bromeliads in the jungles and their native habitats are different than the nursery grown plants we get. I only know this as I used to work w/ plants and have sadly killed and seen other's kill this plant way too much by getting water on the plant and having it rot. I have two crested's and I very rarily see them drinking water. That is why they can get constipated so easily. I found Ginger loves blended banana and strawberry w/ some calcium powder. I put a little on a stick and she licks it off. This gives her some liquid. Thirsty won't even get close enough to try it as he and Ginger went to the vets for constipation 3 weeks ago and he is not too into anyone bugging him now. I want to know where people can get the laxative they gave my gecko's at the vets so they can be treated at home.
They hate the Repashy Superfood but looove crickets.

 

[brian547]

Bromeliads rot if you get water in them. You have to be careful and water the dirt not the plant. Bromeliads in the jungles and their native habitats are different than the nursery grown plants we get. I only know this as I used to work w/ plants and have sadly killed and seen other's kill this plant way too much by getting water on the plant and having it rot. I have two crested's and I very rarily see them drinking water. That is why they can get constipated so easily. I found Ginger loves blended banana and strawberry w/ some calcium powder. I put a little on a stick and she licks it off. This gives her some liquid. Thirsty won't even get close enough to try it as he and Ginger went to the vets for constipation 3 weeks ago and he is not too into anyone bugging him now. I want to know where people can get the laxative they gave my gecko's at the vets so they can be treated at home.
They hate the Repashy Superfood but looove crickets.

how do 90% of dendro vivs keep it so moist and wet for there darts-some with countless amounts of broms, without rotting problems? just curious...

 

[hutena]

I Don't know. The bromeliads I worked w/ rotted when too wet. Maybe the water isn't collecting in the interior cup of the plant but on the leaves and drying? Maybe the kind of Bromeliad used is more resiliant than the nursery grown ones? I'm just giving my experience. I have a beautiful bromeliad now. It is on my back porch and when it rains if it hits the plant I turn it over and let the water drip out. I have had it for over two years. It likes being dry too. They would be pretty used for terrariums, so if 90% of dendro viv's for frogs have these than they aren't using the ones I worked with. I use a pothos they like low light and the cresteds like it.

 

[brian547]

I Don't know. The bromeliads I worked w/ rotted when too wet. Maybe the water isn't collecting in the interior cup of the plant but on the leaves and drying? Maybe the kind of Bromeliad used is more resiliant than the nursery grown ones? I'm just giving my experience. I have a beautiful bromeliad now. It is on my back porch and when it rains if it hits the plant I turn it over and let the water drip out. I have had it for over two years. It likes being dry too. They would be pretty used for terrariums, so if 90% of dendro viv's for frogs have these than they aren't using the ones I worked with. I use a pothos they like low light and the cresteds like it.

i wasnt saying you were wrong by any means...i was just asking. but yea, there are a ton of varieties of broms so, maybe that has something to do with it. like you stated, pothos are great. Ive started using Dracaena Marginata, even though they don't have great leaves for water and don't require much either. but there great for climbing and hiding!

 

[Alnovo]

I use Dracena, common Pothos and Philodendron plants in my viv and they hold water droplets quite well. I've seen little Tia drinking off of them quite often. She even drinks from the side of the viv off the glass sometimes too.

Misting seems to be more than enough. If she's thirsty during my misting (morning and night) she climbs up the leaves and then gets active and just randomly starts to drink from the leaves and glass.

I do also have a small little dish of water nestled in the substrate to help with humidity and in case she needs a little extra water at some point or another.

 

[donloo66]

...Thirsty won't even get close enough to try it as he and Ginger went to the vets for constipation 3 weeks ago and he is not too into anyone bugging him now. I want to know where people can get the laxative they gave my gecko's at the vets so they can be treated at home.
They hate the Repashy Superfood but looove crickets.

just curious. but is there anything to look out for in a constipated crestie?

 

[Pepper]

Natural vivs hold water way better than fake plants.

I've got a big male Crestie in an all natural set up with live plants and the water stays on the plants for a while.

The two babies I have are in critter keepers with fake plants and it doesn't hold water barely at all.

The most important mist is at night time when they come out to drink. I mist heavily at night so I know they have enough liquid.

They've never been constipated.

They are supposed to dry out too. You don't want the cages wet all the time. In the morning spray, and it dries out until the night time spray.

I've only once seen my Male Crestie drink out of a dish, and he didn't really drink out of it, he was playing with it..it was kind of weird, he was putting his little gecko hand in it and touching it and then trying to lick his hand..

 

[jblayza]

What kind of enclosure are you using? The more ventilation you enclosure has, the faster it is gonna dry out. As pepper stated, just mist heavily at night when they are active then a light misting in the morning.

 

[dunderpate]

pebbles, mesh, soil and moss or coconut fibre should help with that. (search vivariums) I had issues with mold because it was too wet before, now i have no issues at all. It's dry where i live and as suggested from previous posts in this thread, I mist in the morning and the evening, a little more at night because thats when they are more likely to be active and drink from the leaves or glass. My little one attacks the water drops that roll down the glass after misting, hehehe, she just doesnt know any better.