Rick brings up a good point. Using sand can be dangerous. One of the
problems is if your leopard gecko becomes ill, one of the first things
they do is start gobbling down the substrate. If they were in their
natural enviroment, this would probably benefit them as there is stuff
in the natural substrate with nutrients. In captivity most people do not
pick this up until it is too late.
It is also a matter of what the gecko is used to and how old it is.
Putting a young leopard on sand or anything else that could be ingested
is foolish. I had a customer put one of my healthy babies on
bed-a-beast, it was ingested and the gecko died. Another went against my
advice, used bed-a-beast with a young leo and it got the bed a beast in
its eye, got an eye infection!
As far as calci-sand, I do not recommend it. Too coarse, too many know
cases of impaction.
Julie Bergman
http://www.geckoranch.com
paper towel user!
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