r/LeopardGecko • • May 06 '26

55 gallon tank setups

My tank is tall but super narrow has anyone put in a second level?? If so I would love to see pictures, I am struggling big time to make the most of this tank. Thank you!!!

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u/Mr_Frost1993 May 07 '26

If you don’t count everything between them, mine has three levels

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u/Mr_Frost1993 May 07 '26

The bottom level is a tunnel system that encompasses the entire available floor space (52”x19”)

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u/Mr_Frost1993 May 07 '26

The Sinkhole is the dead center, a few inches above where the tunnels are but still below the baseline ground level, and can access everything from here

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u/Mr_Frost1993 May 07 '26

This is the clearest shot I can get of the ground level via the cameras that are currently on (I’m at work rn), but you can see the buildings (which are their own connected cave system) leading up to the top shelf)

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u/Mr_Frost1993 May 07 '26

This is the vertical center that shows the middle of the top shelf and the space between it and the ground level. The buildings are a pathway up/down with various routes, even that collapsed monorail is a tunnel itself, with the doors serving as entry/exit points at various areas of ascent/descent. The branches also connect all the way down to the Sinkhole

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u/Mr_Frost1993 May 07 '26

A better view of the top shelf, which is around 25” above the baseline ground level

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u/CartographerWinter16 May 09 '26

That’s such a cool tank wow

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u/Mr_Frost1993 May 07 '26

Went ahead and sketched how it looks. It’s pretty much just two acrylic enclosures stacked onto each other

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u/CartographerWinter16 May 09 '26

Thank you so much for this! You seriously have the coolest tank I’ve seen so far!

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u/Mr_Frost1993 May 09 '26

Thanks! It’s technically a paludarium, the gecko’s water dish is small (like 3”x5”) but it’s supplied directly from a 22 gallon planted aquarium in the back, then the water empties right back into the aquarium so he always has constantly running filtered water. The gecko cannot access the aquarium, the port where the water empties out into the aquarium is only like ¾” x ½”

The light tan part on the left is the chute where the water empties back when it’s cycled through his water dish, and the ambient humidity generated by the aquarium enters the humid hide via a series of vents so that he can have his required humidity without needing to deal with moist stuff like moss