Hi Simon,
To Aid Shedding: I would leave them in for longer than 15 minutes. I
have a Paroedura picta (I assume the species name change has gone
through?) that gets a soaking every few months and I leave it in there
for a few hours, unitl eventually it starts to pull the now moist and
loosened skin off of its toes. If they don't pull off the skin after
several hours, try it VERY carefully and gently with a pair of fine
tweezers. By the way, I only use room temperature filtered water.
What My Geckos Do: Within my colony of P. picta, it runs the range from
individuals spending most of the day in the wet box to some who only go
in there every couple of days. Mind you I don't watch them all day long,
only when I have time. I have them (adults and advanced juveniles) set
up with a wet box and pieces of bark they can hide under scattered in
the tanks.
Yuri Huta
Simon Elliott wrote:
>
> I have two Leopard Geckos, coming up for 2 years old, they have successfully
> bred, both this season and last. They are otherwise very healthy, except for
> just lately they seem to be having trouble shedding around the toes. I am
> not doing anything different from my usual set up, and I make sure that the
> wet box is sprayed daily, warm and filled with fresh sphagnum moss every
> couple of weeks.
>
> In many of the care sheets it says that they spend a lot of time in the wet
> box, but my two have never seemed to use it as much as I am led to believe
> they should. Firstly. any ideas about aiding the shedding around the toes,
> would be welcome. Secondly, do your geckos spend lots of time in the wet
> box?
>
> btw. As recomended by one care sheet, I have tried putting them in a very
> shallow water dish with some warm (30c) water in it, for 15 mins at a time,
> but it does not shift the old skin.
>
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