Hi. I've always been a "plastic tub, paper towels, bowl o' water, cardboard and tupperware hides, dish o' calcium and a lif full o' mealies" kinda guy. Almost like I'm a breeder that has no time to decorate anything because I have so many Leopard Geckos. But the fact is I do, I only have 3 Leopard Geckos, and I just have no idea what to put inside.

I walked by a fish shop and they were selling reptile tanks for really cheap. High quality lockable sliding door display tanks with removable sides and top for what is equivalent to USD$20 bucks. So of course I bought a few wanting to turn my Leopard Geckos from "things I feed" to "centerpieces of my room". However, after I set the darn thing up, all I ended up with was a great tank with paper towels, bowl o' water, cardboard and tupperware hides, dish o' calcium and a lif full o' mealies. Same old crap. Looks like crap.

I really don't know what to do with it to make it look better. Please can some of you post some pictures to give me an idea.

Oh yeah, and the tanks are perfect floorspace to house Leopard Geckos, but are a bit tall. I wonder if there is any way I can utilize the vertical space. I know they are not arboreal, but perhaps some kind of platforms or something?

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here is a link to my frog tank construction. I would think you could do the background and surroundings quite similar. This should at least give you some ideas.

fresh start on building a tank for future treefrog inhabitants

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I don't have any pictures but it would be cool to make tunnels for the geckos on the glass so you can watch them.

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Sand?

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Hi Liz, you're a really arty girl and that's great. Wow. I wasn't expecting that much, I was expecting people to show me something like mine but with an extra piece of driftwood in there or something. Yours is absolutely fantastic!But I don't think I'm gonna have the patience to make one like that myself. LOL!! I was just sorta looking for something where I can put decorations in, that I can still lift up and change the paper towels. Like look at what kinds of stuff other people put and ask for it in the store, and buy it and put it in there. That's about what I'm ready to do. Haha. I still like things practical and easy to clean, just a little more appealing that's all, and for the decorations to be suitable for leopard geckos. For example, no sand, even though it looks good. I also want to use some of the vertical space so if anyone can suggest how to arrange a platform suitable for terrestial species like leopard geckos, that'd be great. If I put branches in, will they climb it a bit? On of my female hypo tangerines loves to climb up the sides of the tank like she's a house gecko with suckers on her toes.

As an example, this is NOT mine, I found it on google. But it's pretty much the same thing I have now:



It's been working great, but it's just so wrong to have that in a top of the line display tank.

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Nope! Sand bad for Leopard Geckos. Eat it, impact it.
Paper towels = good, although I do want to spot clean sometimes. I wonder if paper pellets... nah nevermind, the mealies would cause ****.

Right now the mealies are always getting under the paper towels. I do put them in a shallow bowl but the male enclosure I can't because he don't like to eat from a bowl he likes to peck them while crawling around. Any ideas?

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0.0.1 Sulcata Tortoise - Mantow
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0.1.0 Leucistic Texas Ratsnake - un-named (Suggestions welcome)
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1.1.0 Normal Corn snake het Anery A het Amel 66% poss. het stripe - un-named
1.0.0 Red Chain Snake - un-named
0.0.1 Twin spotted rat snake - un-named
1.0.0 Grey Chinchilla - Gee Gee

Leopard Geckos over a year old? Sand is fine then. A ton of people use it. I swear I get sick of sand is bad crap. I know a few breeders over seas use it. Each his own. Use tile then if you dont want sand.

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The sand debate has been beaten to death. Let it be.

Anthony you could utilize the vertical space by putting in a shelf a few inches above the ground with ramps that lead up to it at each end. looking at it from the front it would look like an upside down "U" with the top flattened out.
If made in one peice you would be able to take it out easily for cleaning. This will greatly increase your floor space as well.

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I left it be on, that Im on sand is ok. Normal sand, not calci sand. People just need to realize some stuff. You can try zoomeds new stuff, the clay sand mix. Or there is tile

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Only pic I have of it now. I'm using Oolite sand.

I'm in the process of mixing it up a bit and adding some soil to trhe mixture. I will be making it so awesome it'll rock your faces off. Just gotta get some stuff for it. I will be steering away from the "Desert/arid" type like everyone does and venture to uncharted lands.

Tunnels would be neat but hard to get your gecko when you need to without destroying the setup.

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