Wow, that's a long post! :)
>don't WANT to lose! In all of my reading, I have never
>come across any such information. Can you remember
I don't know whether this is good or bad :) I went on a reading binge on
the web and read and bookmarked everything I could find. Seems some things
stick in my mind (not the URLs, though :) A lot of this is simply applying
the temperature requirements of leopard geckos. My baby Roxy seems to like
her hiding hole somewhere in the middle of a daytime temperature gradient of
88f - 78f The light is shining on 1/3 of her bowl, so she's probably pretty
close to 88 on that side, and she spends her time on that side of the bowl.
Height is not a consideration over the height of the animal. All they do is
lie and come in and get out. My personal thought on hide-hole size is it
should be wide enough for the animal to turn around easily and at least as
long as the animal, maybe less if it's a more circular hide.
Congratulations on your female being gravid! As far as burying eggs in the
sand, moist hide-holes might help, vermiculite might help, but if it were
me, I'd pull out all the sand.
I'm unhappy with the vermiculite in Roxy's hide-hole because I think she
likes to stay in there as much as possible now, and I'd like to be able to
feed her in the morning. So, unfortunately, I'm going to pull it out and go
back to a sponge. She may not be as happy but I will. I have also stopped
using the red film for my lamp. In the cereal box, it doesn't shine on a
good half the tank, which I hope will increase the gradient. I'm just
turning it off at night. It's never even going to go down to the 60's in
here.
Steve
>From: Laura Ricketts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Gecko] Unhappy Geckos!
>Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:11:08 -0800 (PST)
>
>LOL
>
>Steven, I don't plan to shoot you! Heaven forbid! You
>have been a fount (spelling?) of knowledge that I
>don't WANT to lose! In all of my reading, I have never
>come across any such information. Can you remember
>where you found it? What was the reasoning behind it?
>The cave is over the UTH, so no matter where she lays,
>it would be the same temperature... unless I made
>certain spots deeper in sand than others (or she did
>it herself!) Her previous cave was an angled rock off
>of the terra cotta cave her sister had, which was only
>about 5" round... Dolly (the terra cave dweller)
>didn't like to share her cave with Trixie, and since I
>remembered that they like to have their own individual
>homes, I tried to make one for Trixie.. which she did
>eventually use. I was concered that the caves weren't
>high enough, never thought about wide enough! As far
>as I can determine, Dolly's cave isn't large, it's
>made in the corner of the tank rather than side to
>side... it forms a rough triangle... Trixie's cave is
>more square or rather rectangular.... but both are
>basically the same square inches...12-16 square
>inches... it's not exact square... (like 3"wx4"l for
>Trixie's and 4"w at the base and 4"l on the sides for
>Dolly's - has a 1.5" opening)
>
>Thanks for your help and advice, though... I really
>appreciate it!
>
>I noticed this morning that Trixie is getting very
>large with eggs... I need to get an egg box in there
>and get the "homemade" incubator set up! For some
>reason, though, they like to bury their eggs above the
>UTH... any advice on this? It's hard to know they have
>laid their eggs, until I do a clean up job through the
>sand... then I find them all shriveled up! They don't
>seem to like the egg laying hide boxes, though I made
>them according to what has been said on the list... I
>got rid of the perlite, and am just using some sand
>with moist moss.. (haven't gotten the vermiculite
>yet!) Thanks in advance, as usual! *smile*
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