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Thanks for the compliments RabidReptile, herpsrule 13, opal!
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Both of you have some awesome set-ups! Jsin your monitor looks great as well. My on question is how far above the monitor's basking spot is the light? In the picture it looks very close to his head. Just a word of caution, be careful to have the light too close it can burn the lizard. Sometimes they don't realize that they are burning until they the damage is done.
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| Katschamne Both of you have some awesome set-ups! Jsin your monitor looks great as well. My on question is how far above the monitor's basking spot is the light? In the picture it looks very close to his head. Just a word of caution, be careful to have the light too close it can burn the lizard. Sometimes they don't realize that they are burning until they the damage is done.
.............................. 8" over the basking spots for the halogen FLOODS and 12" for the dome lamp. In the pic i think your referring to the light is actually in the background ( if you look again you can see where the light is hitting the floor). I do keep the Halogen FLOOD bulbs close to the basking sites though. Thats the secret to getting all the temps correct. By using low wattage halogen FLOOD lights im able to heat the surface of a LARGE (just about the monitors body size)area EVENLY to 130+F with out heating the air in the entire cage much , thus avoiding burns. Now if i used halogen SPOT lights it would be a totaly different story. Those have a very focused beam of light/heat and id have a bunt scarred monitor.Thanx for the kind words
Jsin. - 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.'
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leo, you dont need the cash!! ur cage is all that and a bag of chips
My Pets:
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Ha, what can i say, some people have drugs, i have herps
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| Here is a leo setup: 
Jsin.
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| (sorry had to remove pic. to post others)How's this? I built this above my TV. It is 9ft. 6in. long, 32in. high, 2ft. wide. I put a heating pad under the floor on 1 half, water fountain, 2 daytime recess lights both different wattage, & 2 night time black lights.
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| Jsin, do not take this the wrong way, I am not trying to insult or criticize your methods, I am simply wondering your reasoning. Your leopard gecko looks like it has a more temperate to semi-tropical set up, almost more like what an African fat-tailed gecko would live in. It looks as if it would have higher humidity than a leopard gecko should have (due to the soil, leaves, etc.). I am just wondering, have you found keeping your gecko this way successful? I've kept my female in a more desert like set up (twenty gallon long, reptile carpet, thirty percent humidity, approximately ninety-three or so degrees basking spot provided by a heat pad underneath the tank, seventy-five to eighty-five degree ambient temperature depending on the season of the year, and just a small humid hide to aid in shedding) for about four years, and she has been quite healthy the entire time. I'd love to know how yours do, obviously kept quite differently!
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Your leopard gecko looks like it has a more temperate to semi-tropical set up, almost more like what an African fat-tailed gecko would live in. It looks as if it would have higher humidity than a leopard gecko should have (due to the soil, leaves, etc.). I am just wondering, have you found keeping your gecko this way successful? I've kept my female in a more desert like set up (twenty gallon long, reptile carpet, thirty percent humidity, approximately ninety-three or so degrees basking spot provided by a heat pad underneath the tank, seventy-five to eighty-five degree ambient temperature depending on the season of the year, and just a small humid hide to aid in shedding) for about four years, and she has been quite healthy the entire time.I'd love to know how yours do, obviously kept quite differently!
.................................. Success? This pair is 8 years old and I get so many eggs from them I just feed'em to my monitor rather then bother incubating them.The cool thing about a setup like this is the female will nest naturaly and back fill the nesting chamber in the soil opposed to just laying in a humidity hide. Now thats just plain cool to see and way less stressfull to the gecko. Ill try to shoot a nesting series next time this female get "knocked up"
Jsin. - 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.'
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Wow, congratulations! Good job on that!
0.1 Eublepharis macularias
1.0.1 Rhacodactylus ciliatus
0.0.4 Terrapene carolina
0.0.1 Theloderma corticale
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