03-28-2014, 03:10 PM
(03-28-2014, 01:58 PM)Catherine Wrote: The girls are beautiful. You will fatten them up in no time and have them eating out of you hand. I think they will do better with you. Look how well Jack(Allison) has done. It will be nice when you can put your pairs together. They will like it and you will love watching their interactions.
Lots of people use sand. There are different kinds of bark that are good. Finely ground cocoanut bark is fine. Shredded or chipped aspen works. I have the Hognose snakes on the chipped aspen. They like to dig through it. I have the pine snakes on the cocoanut bark. I think they all work just fine. It matters which product you can get and how reasonable a price it has.
I have seen the matting. It washes right? So you can reuse it.
It has it's good points. You will probably use different substrates over the years.
The peat moss is best for hatching eggs. I have that information from an experienced breeder. Vermiculite works, but it does not hold moisture as well as the peat moss does.
I use my egg laying tank as a back-up incubator. I set the eggs in an eggs box and keep it in the egg laying tank until I can get them into the proper incubator. It holds temperature and humidity very well for a day. If it was longer then I would have to work very hard to keep things steady. Nine weeks is a long time. It is easier to have the eggs in a proper incubator where things are controlled by a thermostat.
I have moist coconut fiber and moss mixed in their moister boxes to help with shedding. It doubles as an egg laying box too
but don't know about using it all over the tank. It's cheap enough though. I think I may be sold on the mat for now though. I found some that are $4.99 for a 20 gallon tank. With tax it's $5.33 and free shipping. Can't beat it really. Leopard geckos don't burrow either so they wont be missing out on anything they do tend to eat sand and that's where sand impaction is a problem. Like you said I'll probably use different ones over the years and figure out what works best. After all if I'm going to be breeding Leopard geckos I need to know what to recommend and what to tell people to avoid. I found a really good coil to uses with the incubator I'll have to figure out how to set it up but I think it will work much better than the aquarium heater. Which means I now need to take it back... again. lol I got another one but if this coil works I wont have any need to the other. I just hope that since I already returned it once they will take it back again.
