Crested gecko care sheet

Due to me having a few days off and being fed up with the sub-par care sheets that I read, I decided to write up a care sheet for crested geckos (and also gargoyle geckos because the care is the same)

Care sheet is under the cut!

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What kind of set up do you have for Lasso the corn snake? I have seen a few pics here and there but not a in depth one. Looking into different set ups for my corn snakes. I have seen the husbandry tanks you put together, but looking for more of what its like inside.

So, I took a bunch of pictures for you, so you can see for yourself.

Lasso lives in a 4ft x 2ft x 5ft high Animal Plastics custom enclosure. Originally it was ordered for Slinky the rat snake, but he outgrew it, so we upgraded Lasso from her Exo Terra High Glass Terrarium, 36 by 18 by 36-Inch (which she inherited from Rocky when he got his large 8-footer cage… there’s a pattern there, good thing she has no idea, or she’d think we didn’t like her or something.)

Anyways, the “custom” part of this enclosure are the small set of doors on the bottom. Knowing Slinky (when he was young at least) we thought it would be safer to only open the small doors, so he wouldn’t just bolt. And he can be fast, let me tell ya. He mellowed out quite a bit, so now he has a cage with just two large doors.

Her downstairs neighbors are Coil, Makeba, and Leeloo (top to bottom). Each cage has its own thermostat attached to its back, so each snake can have the temperature that’s best for them.

Anyways, back to Lasso.

Here’s a panoramic picture of her ground level. I keep it cluttered for her, and I have found that paper products, like tissue boxes, and paper towel and TP rolls do great as enrichment, and if they get pooped on, no big loss. That “mayan” pyramid hide she got from Porthos when he grew out of it. Please don’t tell her!

The thing on the left is a corner litter box (sold for rabbits), which I filled with aspen for her to dig in. It’s her favorite hiding spot. Except when I was taking the picture, and she was elsewhere.

I put some hides in there for her, even though they’re too small for her now, but she likes hiding partially under them as she burrows; and then it’s all covered with a piece of astroturf for privacy. She’s all about privacy. If she had any money, she’d donate it to the EFF, I’m sure.

The backing is a fake stone veneer (made of urethane foam, can be bought online or at home improvement stores; while it’s not cheap, it’s quicker than if I made a whole custom backdrop, and much, much less messy).

This material was chosen to allow Slinky (who this was originally designed for) to climb on. Lasso also uses it for climbing, and since she’s a much smaller snake than Slinky, the ledges are outright easy for her to climb on.

Then there’s the branch, leading up to a magnetic cave. I carved out holes in the background and glued the magnets in, so I can take the cave down if it needs cleaning.

Both the branch and the fake rock hide came from her glass ExoTerra enclosure (and they were in there with Rocky, I had to finally take the cave away from him when he got so heavy that the cave fell off the glass).

Needless to say, everything that was passed between snakes was disinfected and cleaned before being given to another.

So yeah, here you go, a tour of Lasso’s cage. Quite possibly the most spoiled corn snake in the country.

MY EXO TERRA CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY!

>7< Its right next to my fish tank and theres not much in it now but ima get more vines n things for it. There’s even a hidey box for the baby in the back there. Gonna see how humid and warm it stays and adjust if i need a light, maybe take the background out eventually too hmm.

BUT NOW TO GET THE CRESTED BABY!

This is why you should always check out your local recycling centers/ thrift store before you go buy a new tank!

I got this enclosure at a local recycling center for $30! It seems to be in perfect condition and very, very clean. 

Look what Exo Terra makes now!

PSA TO ANYONE USING EXO TERRA LIGHT BRACKETS!

IT IS A FIRE HAZARD!!

I came home today to the smell of burning. I ran to my reptile room and found one of my beardie’s lights had fallen into the enclosure and was roasting the paper towels inside. The light was a dome fixture being held up by an Exo Terra light bracket which sticks to the side of a glass enclosure with sticky adhesive. I quickly removed my beardie (thank God she was inside her house and not under the light) and took out the burned sections of paper towels. Then I heard a crackling noise, and upon further investigation, the heat of the lamp cracked the bottom of my 40 gallon enclosure and the crack was continuing to spread as I watched. I keep my enclosures on the carpeted floor, so this could have been so much worse. My house could have been in flames if I’d gotten home any later. This is NOT the first time one of these brackets has failed on me. I have another that I had to patch up with wall mount sticky pads, however I’ve removed that one as of today. Look online for reviews of this product and other people have had the same thing happen. Burned clothes, burned floors, someone’s turtle was almost electrocuted when the adhesive failed and the entire light fixture fell into the aquarium. It’s the heat from the lamp that causes the adhesive to dry up and fail over time. Exo Terra is well aware of this and their only response is to offer you more adhesive in the mail. They say there’s no guarantee or warranty on this light bracket.

If you have this bracket, please trash it immediately. If you’re looking for a replacement, Zoo Med sells a similar bracket with a base that you tuck under the enclosure, no adhesive whatsoever. Keep your beardies safe.

Reptile keeper PSA

HEY GUYS! so, I know a lot of us use Exo-Terra plastic plants in our enclosures, and I’m no exception, since they’re so cheap and look decent.

but I just pulled one out of my Cuban tree frog’s enclosure, and I found this

that would be rusty wire sticking out of the plastic.

so I went and checked all my others, and sure enough, almost all of them had some protruding rusty metal wires.

Exo-Terra, are you fucking kidding me? how can you tell your customer base that this is terrarium-safe?? 

reptile/amphibian keepers: PLEASE remove these from your enclosures! don’t let your animals get exposed to potentially toxic levels of rust! 

I have had a few mysterious amphibian deaths recently and I’m starting to wonder. 

so please use these ONLY in arid/desert enclosures… or better yet, don’t use them at all!

reptile side of tumblr… reblog to save a life.

Crested gecko blog

Where my animal enthusiast blogs at??

So I run mostly a zoo/exotic animal blog with the occasional splash of petblr and fishblr. Please like/reblog if you:

-are a zookeeper -are an aquarist -have a fishblr account -have a petblr account -post about wildlife or nature -post animal facts -post about zoo or exotic animals -are a vet/studying to be a vet -have an exotic pet that you post about

And I’ll check you out!!

PS.. I’ll follow you on my main which is @variations-on-a-kfc

Specifically Crested Geckos, but I reblog other reptiles too

Reblog if you’re a pet based blog

and tag what kind of animals/pets you mostly blog about. I’m new and need more people to follow!

DEWEY! GET IN THE TUB…

Happy! Happy! Happy! I finally shed and feel sssssoooooo much better!

Calm the tiny anger. 

“Sinfire”, our holdback 4 day old baby noodle doing an anger. This is GOOD NEWS! When the babies come out feisty like this it generally means they are going to be excellent feeders.

Henlo

He is absolute perfection.

His yellows go CRAZY with the camera flash though.

Rainbows!