Hi Cassie,
cassie schilliger wrote:
> someone suggested to just bake fine beach sand(or buy some).
I strongly recommend against this or any other ingestible substrate for beginners
or young leos. As a beginner you will not be tuned in to what the signs of sand
impaction are, and by the time you see something is wrong it is often too late or a
big vet bill if the gecko lives. Additionally as a beginner you have a good chance
of making husbandry mistakes and the leopards tend to start gobbling up the
substrate in that circumstance.
Very rarely folks ingore my recommendations about substrate, but they are always
shocked when impaction or other problems occur. One customer actually tried to make
a claim on my 30 day health guarantee that their gecko developed an eye problem.
They kept it on some funky substrate that got stuck in the gecko's eye! Fortunately
I knew the tech at the vet clinic and they told me what really happened.
>
> im not sure how many pounds we would need though.
> and calci sand is supposedly digestable.
That is a BIG, FAT LIE! As soon as that product came on the market vets started
getting impacted leos kept on that substrate.
Please take my advice on this seriously, I am very experienced and am not saying
this to hear myself talk. Many non-dom vets I know have seen clients with geckos
and other types of reptiles suffering with impaction. Besides, who do you trust,
the side of a slickly marketed package, or a reputable breeder?
Julie Bergman
http://www.geckoranch.com
GGA lifetime member
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