Nathan,
What's the recipe for this mixture? I am eager to try
it. Are leos tunnelers? thanks!
--- Nathan Tenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 07:18 PM 12/15/00 -0800, Laura Ricketts wrote:
> ><<Something coarse like coconut fiber or
> vermiculite
> >will help hold it together as the geckos undermine
> the
> >entire tank with tunnels.>>
> >
> >This is interesting.... geckos will tunnel in the
> >substrate if it's firm enough?
>
> Well, most of my geckos are serious
> tunnelers---_Coleonyx_,
> _Stenodactylus_, _Palmatogecko_, usw. (Only the
> _Coleonyx_ are on the
> sand/peat mix; the others are hardcore sand
> lizards.) The desert banded
> geckos, especially, should hire out as excavation
> contractors---we've got
> one female who, before laying, usually moves all the
> substrate in a 10g to
> one end of the tank, then to the other, then spreads
> it back out and THEN
> digs a laying chamber.
>
> It's fun to pour water into a tunnel and watch the
> geckos come boiling out
> to drink. (Note that this is probably how they'd
> get water in the wild for
> much of the year; I'm not just being sadistic here.
> :-)
>
> > Wow! I like that
> >idea... except for the fact I planned to use an
> UTH...
> >how would this affect it?
>
> I dunno; never tried. I guess the substrate would
> diffuse the heat more
> easily than sand, for good or ill---you might get
> less of a hot spot right
> over the pad, but probably less heat reaching the
> surface.
>
> I just spot-clean, but these are pretty clean
> geckos---they pick a
> "defecatorium" and use it faithfully, and they're
> very fastidious about not
> tracking poop around. Something bigger or sloppier
> might need heavier
> cleaning and regular tank breakdowns.
>
> NT
>
>
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