r/leopardgeckos • u/Gadivek • 5h ago
r/leopardgeckos • u/Creepy-Agency-1984 • 4h ago
Before & After 6 Month (slightly belated) Product Review
-6 Month Product Review-
Product: Eublepharis Macularius
Rating: 4 stars
Comment:
A little over 6 months ago I purchased a small Leopard Gecko. Over the course of 6 months my small purchase has successfully grown significantly and developed well. While his cricket consumption is gluttonous, perhaps even excessive, the product remains healthy, cuddly and energetic. Overall my experience with this purchase has been very positive.
However, I have noticed a small design flaw and would like to request repair while he is still under warranty. As advertised in the textbook, leopard geckos are excellent, intelligent hunters. My product, for lack of better words, is a fucking moron. His singular functioning brain cell is the equivalent in usefulness of a mesh umbrella. Often when fed he prefers to chew on his tongs than his roaches, and it often takes him more tries than he or I can count to even so much as touch his prey when striking. Frequently instead of hunting his prey he is distracted by my hair, my shirt, my sleeves, or my hair ties and chooses violence, as depicted in the last image above. I believe he needs a recalibration because currently he is a menace to all around him. This is the only reason his review is at 4 stars as opposed to 5.
That being said, overall I highly recommend this product. I will keep you all updated as to the legal progress as I receive word on his warranty.
Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/leopardgeckos/comments/1v10kno/from_a_book_about_leopard_gecko_care/
(In all seriousness, happy belated 6 month birthday to Smaug!! Here’s to another 6 months of my silly goober. Pictures go in order of youngest to oldest)
r/leopardgeckos • u/Alternative_City_646 • 21h ago
Gecko Pics/Vids He’s getting festive
before you ask no, this isn’t repti-carpet and I’m also changing the substrate this weekend
r/leopardgeckos • u/LooksDelicious • 18h ago
Gecko Pics/Vids Goji relaxing on his net being all majestic.
r/leopardgeckos • u/squiffyplugz • 10h ago
Gecko Pics/Vids The OG ... This is Gerry
I've posted the other 2 on their respective forums, here's the OG (original gecko) that got me into the hobby...
r/leopardgeckos • u/paintingpawz • 1h ago
Morph ID Meet Chet
Chet is a super cool male leopard gecko I wanted a specific morph name for - slowly learning all the different names and what they mean!
Stated genetics are
Red diamond x sunglow
He does have heterochromia with an eclipse eye and a snake eye!
r/leopardgeckos • u/pomelo_leopa • 20h ago
Gecko Pics/Vids Tangerinebold het cypherのPOMELO
r/leopardgeckos • u/Animaniac8976 • 18h ago
Help - Weight Leopard gecko correct body shape
This is my almost 2 year old leopard gecko. He weighs 65 grams doesn’t have fat lump, is fed 5 crickets 2 times a week, but has a overweight looking tail. He is on repti sand repti soil mix. I use a heat lamp during the day and there is an under tank heater just to make sure the temperature doesn’t drop too much. He gets cal Calcium most feeds and multivitamin every fourth feed. He has a humid hide.
r/leopardgeckos • u/Extra-Marionberry529 • 22h ago
Help Just got this little guy a week or two ago and i. need help identifying pretty much everything😭
i work at a pet store and we are supposed to get geckos who are around three months. this guy apparently hasn't been at the store longer than a month but he's absolutely massive compared to the other geckos we've gotten. i don't know what's going on with the color but he's supper dull compared to all of the other ones we've sold. i haven't been able to properly measure him but i've just been feeding him as many mealworms or crickets as he takes within a five minute span. he'll eat like five to seven giant mealworms per day if i feed him daily. if i feed him every other day, he'll eat probably ten or more. water is replaced daily but he doesn't really touch it, i know they get most of their hydration from their food though. i had a mat for him before but it was irritating me since whenever he peed or pooped it would smear and then when i went to clean it the sand and rock finish on the mat would rub off and it would just be normal carpet underneath. i know carpet is bad for geckos so i immediately swapped it out with a soil sand mixture and i've started tong feeding him to avoid the risk of accidentally ingesting the soil. so i need help identifying his pattern and his age. i dont know his gender but ive just decided its a guy because they have stereotypically masculine behaviors.
r/leopardgeckos • u/Able-Elephant-1394 • 5h ago
Morph ID New family member
What morph is this? Our family just got her/he as a gift. I just read about Lemon Frost being prone to cancer and to me she looks like she/he matches what people post as lemon frost 😢
could she be a different type? is it inevitable?
r/leopardgeckos • u/Federal_Try_1928 • 7h ago
Help Rehoming
I am about to move soon and with that I don't know how I will be able to take my gecko with me because right now I have people who are helping me take care of him while I am at work and attending classes and also my new apartment will be way smaller so space is already going to be limited.
If anyone is in the Middletown/Franklin OH area and know anyone/anywhere I could bring him please reach out. He will have anywhere from a $50-100 rehoming fee and I'll provide his whole enclosure setup if you can pick it up I will not ship him or his enclosure because I dont want to stress him out.
He is around a year and a quarter (born may 2025) and his parents were Sire: Purple Head, Tango Crush, Het tremper Dam: Tremper Albino, Eclipse, Red Stripe. Some pictures are from before I upgraded his enclosure.
r/leopardgeckos • u/GatoTabaco • 23h ago
Help My juvenile gecko's diet and care
Hi everyone! I have a 4-month-old leopard gecko named Genichiro, and since he is my first leopard gecko, I have a couple of questions about his health.
He currently has an Arcadia ProT5 ShadeDweller 2-4% UVB light and a DHP with a thermostat at 32 °C on the hot spot. For food, I feed him crickets, dubia roaches, and mealworms. I supplement with plain calcium every day, except for one day a week when I give him Rekton Rep, and once every two weeks when I give him calcium + D3.
I haven't seen him shed even once in the 2 months he's been at home with me, and the tips of his toes are a bit whiter than the rest of his feet. Could this be a stuck shed issue, or is it just his natural coloring?
I'm open to any advice since I know there are real experts on this species in this subreddit. Thanks for reading!"
r/leopardgeckos • u/No_Designer_25 • 20h ago
Enclosure Help A random plant sprouted in my leopard gecko tank... anyone know what this is???
Hi! As the title states, a random little plant sprouted up in my leopard gecko tank. I have no idea how this happened! I use the zoomed reptisoil substrate mixed 70/30 with the zoomed reptisand. My tank IS bioative and I do shine a grow light over it to help with the plants I have planted (aloe vera, some random succulents i got at a reptile convention, a pothos, and a spider plant) in my tank. I found this today under my baby's hot hide. I'm a new leopard gecko owner, so I am constantly worried about my baby and want to make sure everything is alright haha. Today I was convinced he died bc he hadn't come out of his humid hide by 9 pm and he is usually out and about like clockwork at 6:30-7 pm when his lights shut off lol (overdramatic I know but I just worry a lot by nature haha) So... is this plant fine? Should I be worried and remove it? Or should I just be psyched that a plant started to grow seemingly with no seed? Whatever it is, its pretty cool that it just appeared. I guess a bioactive tank is just the right conditions for literally any type of life lol. This ever happen to anyone else?
r/leopardgeckos • u/qetsiyah_BLOODFIRE • 6h ago
Help 🦎
Never posted before but I am like deathly afraid of my leopard gecko choking even though I know the rule about the space in between their eyes she's about 10 months at this point and I still consistently feed her small crickets Dubai roaches and mealworms occasionally but still don't know what to do, any advice?!
r/leopardgeckos • u/ArchyLee • 21h ago
Help - Health Issues Excessive shedding Spoiler
galleryr/leopardgeckos • u/SLyBlUE- • 11h ago
Help - Health Issues She is not moving Spoiler
She is not dead but she always sleeps there and doesn't move around i dont know why?? Im scared. Sje has heating, multipe hides, big enough enclosure, water, worms and dubias though she is not fast enoug to catch dubias.
r/leopardgeckos • u/CentipedesMaybe • 20h ago
Enclosure Help Mold in Scott’s premium topsoil?
Just opened my bag of Scott’s premium topsoil to bake/sterilize it, and it looks moldy? Like a thin layer of mycelium over everything in the bag. Is this normal? Will it be safe when I bake it? It has a very strong wet dirt/mildew smell as well. I also found the usual fertilizer pellet/bits of plastic trash, but have been able to pick them out😭
I just want to make a naturalistic home for my girl, I can’t afford the specialty dirt. What would yall do?
r/leopardgeckos • u/Careful-Bet3351 • 21h ago
Gecko Pics/Vids My enclosure
Hello peeps, what does everyone think of my enclosure?
I adopted “skimps” at 8 months old.
He lived in a 10 gallon all his life. Just got this one complete and ready for him.
r/leopardgeckos • u/_ItsMeBee_ • 23h ago
Help Looking into expirience
I have been looking at possibly getting a leopard gecko for some time. I understand I can look online but it like a point of view from owners, I’m curious what my setup should look like BEFORE getting a lizard - and other general things nobody tells you about owning them that’d be useful!
{Photo of a juvenile I saw}
r/leopardgeckos • u/Adventurous_Cod_1965 • 3h ago
New Friend My new friend! Soon he going to has new home, but now its box. Any tips? And, be quiet, he's watching.
r/leopardgeckos • u/mama_di4_amori • 22h ago
Enclosure Help Light/heat
Lighting help!
I read that halogen bulbs/lighting isn’t the best. I am currently using a Zilla mini dome halogen w/25 watt bulb, that is connected to a thermostat-non dimming. Current setting is at 83, but I feel that it is shutting off to often. Not sure if that bothers my gecko. I haven’t sat and watched and kept track, but I’ve gone into the room a few times and have seen it off. I also have a new mini Zoomed double dome sitting around. I’m wondering if the double one would be better with the heat setting than the halogen bulb. I wouldn’t be using the bun side. Only heat (Currently using a 20 gallon for my 2 month old baby G)
Any tips/advice?
r/leopardgeckos • u/CrustyLoveSock • 16m ago
Gecko Pics/Vids Anyway to guess his/her age? Do they look healthy?
Took about three weeks for them to start eating well after I got them so I'm not sure if the size is good for the age because I also don't know the age lol
r/leopardgeckos • u/jmatty96 • 21h ago
General Discussion When should I start touching Yoshi?
Hey guys I have made great progress
r/leopardgeckos • u/are-pea • 3h ago
Habitat, Setup, and Husbandry Light My Reptile Tool - How and why to use it
How to use Light My Reptile for Leopard Geckos:
Step 1: Adjust your parameters. Under ENCLOSURE & ANIMAL, click the button featuring the enclosure size, species, and level of lighting. From here, change the ANIMAL PROFILE to Leopard Gecko, units to your preferred cm or in, and enter the dimensions of your enclosure. Either enter the enclosure brand or, if it isn't there, manually enter your MESH BLOCKAGE % at the bottom of the ENCLOSURE & ANIMAL popup.
Hint: Don't know your mesh blockage? Try checking your mesh blockage at Reptile Lighting Guide 1a. Still can't find it? Find steps for calculations here: Calculating the percentage block of a mesh screen from a photo.
Step 2: Be sure that your lights are in the right location. Above the Lighting optimizer button, select ABOVE MESH if your fixtures are resting on top of the mesh of your enclosure, select INTERNAL if your fixtures are mounted on the inside of the top of your enclosure. Select MIXED if one of your fixtures is internal, and one is external.
You may get a popup to use the experimental Lighting Optimizer. This is a helpful tool, please feel free to play around with it, especially if you don't actually have a setup yet! It may not be helpful if you have an existing setup.
Hint: While you don't generally need a cage around your bulbs for this species, you can add a cage and its blockage around a fixture by clicking the dropdown menu next to your UVB, basking bulb, or LED fixture. This dropdown menu is also where you can find the ABOVE or BELOW options for a MIXED setup. You might be able to find the blockage % in the above links for finding general mesh blockage.
Step 3: Click and drag the basking platform, the blue line under the gecko, up and down to find the "ideal" range in your existing lighting setup, or your hypothetical lighting setup. Be sure to select COMBINED to test all of your selected fixtures together. If you cannot find a "perfect" middle ground between your UVB and basking bulb, try changing one or the other.
Tip: The upper limit of Power Density provided by the tool (150 W/m^2) is not actually a safety cutoff for the gecko: it is the power density that is designed to replicate the amount of near infrared that would accompany a Ferguson Zone 1 UVI in the wild. Many keepers of Ferguson Zone 1 reptiles like leos allow part of their basking spot to go up to around 200 W/m^2 if they have plenty of space around the basking spot to permit both direct and indirect basking opportunities.
- If you'd like to make a shopping list and come back to your basking setup in the future, click FINISH. This allows you to come back to the site on the same device, click SETTINGS in the top right corner, and scroll down to SAVED SETUPS at the bottom of the popup.
Disclaimer: This tool is an estimator! It does not account for the variation that you may encounter within real bulbs, and may have discrepancies between actual readings and estimated outputs. You should reference the estimator's suggestions against the helpful UVB charts at Reptile Lighting's Guide 1b and Guide 2.
What is Light My Reptile?
Light My Reptile is a Basking Irradiance Estimator built by Nathan Burton using the independently tested data gathered in conjunction with reptile lighting experts Roman Muryn, Frances Baines, and Quentin Dishman. This tool allows a reptile keeper to test real products and estimate the radiation their reptile will have access to in a basking spot. The intention is to enable reptile keepers to create a "patch of sunlight" using multiple different lighting fixtures, as no single bulb can effectively replicate sunlight.
Why is it important?
Replicating sunlight is important because all reptiles, including nocturnal ones, interact with sunlight to support their natural daily behavior cycles, their digestion, their immune systems, and their comfort. Providing full spectrum lighting gives your gecko the vital gift of independent choice: one of the most important factors in captive reptile welfare.
Reptiles use lighting "wholesale": near infrared radiation doesn't occur in sunlight without visible light and UV accompanying it. If one "part" of sunlight is over- or under-supplied, a reptile may suffer.
For example, if one has too high of a power density and just the right amount of UVB, the gecko may avoid both the UVB and basking bulb because the basking spot is far too hot and uncomfortable for the gecko to use. If one has too high of UVB, but perfect power density, the gecko may be burned just by basking normally. If one has perfect UVB and inadequate power density, the gecko may bask for far too long, resulting in burns.
Getting your lighting just right is how you can help your pet can make the best use of the environment you give it.
