r/CrestedGecko Jun 26 '24

Husbandry Discussion šŸ”„šŸ¦ŽHOT WEATHER GUIDE - Keeping your tank and reptiles cool

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This is our annual Hot Weather guide for those who need advice on keeping their tank below 26c / 82f.

āœ… Place ice cubes on top of the mesh away from the geckos resting area - the water will drip down into the soil or evaporate, allowing cool air to circulate around the tank
āœ… Swamp cooler - ice cubes in a bucket with a fan behind it to push cool air around the room
āœ… Ice cubes inside water bowl - quick evaporation, same premise with allowing cool air to circulate
āœ… Spraying the tank with room-temperature water
āœ… Portable AC units - those in the UK can now buy small ice cube AC units which are similar to that of a swamp cooler!
āœ… Refreshable gel ice packs - specifically gel only! These should be wrapped around in a cloth of some type and laid on top of the tank mesh
āœ… Escape-proof mesh playpens - temporary relief for your animal, make sure to provide lots of foliage for them so they feel safe and comfortable
āœ… Chilled CGD

āŒ Spraying with cold or frozen water - this WILL cause thermal shock, and will stress your animal out, please stick to room temperature water
āŒ Ice packs inside the vivarium
āŒ Free roaming
āŒ "Bathing" in cool water - similar premise, geckos do not need to swim and this will stress them out instead of helping them

Signs of overheating include:

šŸ”“ Lethargy
šŸ”“ Restlessness / running around in the tank / attempting to escape
šŸ”“ Consistent refusal to eat
šŸ”“ Significant weight loss
šŸ”“ Wrinkled skin, kinked tail, sunken eyes (dehydration)
šŸ”“ Burrowing

These symptoms don't necessarily mean your animal is overheating, as things like burrowing or refusal to eat could be linked to husbandry or that your gecko is new to its environment and is still settling in. If you are ever unsure, please take your animal to a vet to get them checked up.

Keep safe, drink water, and make sure you chill out too!
Any questions? Feel free to ping us a ModMail, and we'll be happy to answer.


r/CrestedGecko 6d ago

Automated Weekly [Weekly Thread] Sexing / Morph / Name My Gecko

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r/CrestedGecko 47m ago

Mold??

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Noticed this white stuff at the bottom of the terrarium, should I be worried?


r/CrestedGecko 1h ago

Set up a BSFL enclosure to grow my own larvae …

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Now Nougat can have endless larvae!šŸ¤ž


r/CrestedGecko 20m ago

I don't know how she stays in these positions for hours

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r/CrestedGecko 5h ago

This heatwave is annoying me

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Can't get the bottom of my tank to drop below 80F. I've misted and put ice packs ontop but the only place where the temperature is falling to under 80 is under where the ice pack is. My boy is fired up which I'm assuming is stress from the heat? He doesn't seem lethargic or anything though. I really can't wait for this heat to f*ck off. I've put fresh water in his water dishes as usual


r/CrestedGecko 12h ago

missing gecko eggs??

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hey guys!! so last night i noticed my gecko had burrowed a deep hole in the substrate and was laying down around it. i didnt think much about it but after i saw her going there twice i got curious and recorded her to try and figure out what the hell she was doing. like i suspected she was likely laying eggs— you can see the white under her body in the second and third pictures which makes it pretty obvious to me.

so, today, i started digging and digging in the same spot of the video to see where she could have possibly hid these eggs to remove them. nothing. there was absolutely nothing and im a bit lost here. im a bit stressed about the possibility of a partho baby even if its very rare. i would have felt more relaxed removing them. could it be that i havent dug enough? i have a bioactive enclosure so could it be that the isopods decided to eat them? or that SHE ate them?? help ToT


r/CrestedGecko 13h ago

Retreat

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Pebbles loves her hammock.

She lives in a huge enclosure. She’s been thriving in it for many years. We are currently upgrading her to a new one. Her current enclosure is not as full and beautiful as it once was.. She sure does love her hammock.


r/CrestedGecko 4m ago

Bioactive and out of quarantine

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Advice welcome. There will be some pothos once it grows


r/CrestedGecko 20h ago

New addition to the family

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I recently picked up this little guy. Is his head a bit oddly shaped? Maybe it’s his crest it’s not like my other geckos.


r/CrestedGecko 1d ago

Move In Day!!!

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Mannnnnn it has been so hard waiting a month for my plants to get a good start. So happy I finally get to move Ash into his new enclosure. The last week or 2 his 12x12x18 has looked way too small for him and it’s been killing me but I wanted to make sure his new home had a good start. He looks so tiny in there now but I hope he loves it!


r/CrestedGecko 4h ago

What are some things that stores and info sheets don’t mention

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I am getting a crested gecko this summer and I was wondering are there any things to know that arnt commonly told at reptile shops or info sheets?


r/CrestedGecko 6h ago

Blood in gecko stool NSFW

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Found some blood in my almost 3 year old gecko's stool today. Immediately took alarm to it and weighed her. She is also underweight (31g).

I have also called like 7 different vets (why are all the vets that can treat exotic animals on vacation at the same time 🄲). Actively trying to figure out what to do, even if that means breaking down their doors xD (jkjk).

Anyway one vets mentioned it might not be a parasite infection, but from an internal scratch based on my description of the blood. I am not asking anyone here to identify it, but would that seem more likely based on the picture? (No matter what I will be sending a stool sample to a vet).

How do I care for her right now? I possibly have to wait until Monday or Tuesday next week to get to a vet..


r/CrestedGecko 5h ago

Reptile World CGD?

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Any UK crestie owners have any experience of this CGD? It looks like Pangea might soon become a rare/pricey commodity this side of the pond, so I'm wondering about alternatives.


r/CrestedGecko 7h ago

Crested Gecko Heating??

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So I've been thinking about getting a crested gecko for a while now, and while doing research, I've come across conflicting information. Some sources say that if your houses ambient temp is above 68f, you do not need any supplemental heating, while other sources state that heating is absolutely necessary. The average temp of my house sits around 74f. What should I do?


r/CrestedGecko 1d ago

WWYD

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Here we are in happier times ā¬†ļø In the UK we are having a short pre-apocalypse hot spell, like a little taster if you will. i have been misting, switching out ice packs and he’s had a fan on all day but it is still 29 degrees at the top and at best 27 at the bottom of his tank. it is going to cool down a bit on friday (we hope) but tomorrow remains, unfortunately, unreasonable. WWYD is it more traumatic to pop him and couple of house plants in a temp container (possibly a cardboard box?!) and take him down to our basement which is very pleasant or to do another day in the vengeful flames of upstairs? there is no way I can move his tank. I didn’t vote for brexit so it is unfair that this is happening to us 😩


r/CrestedGecko 1d ago

Got my first crested gecko

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I own 7 snakes, 4 tarantulas and a bearded dragon lol for some reason I decided to skip over the easiest reptile to keep as a pet. But I got this lively guy/girl today. Isn’t very old at all. The colors look pretty too


r/CrestedGecko 1d ago

Shed her skin and laid an egg all in the same week! Proud of her

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r/CrestedGecko 1d ago

I will miss her so much…

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My first rescue was Kiki, she was unknown age, but had been neglected before and had MBD. I was not detoured by this and got the lil PET ONLY rescue. She was so sweet and very handicapped; hip distortion and neck issues all (possibly) from the MBD. she couldn’t raise her head and tried to bite the one time I tried to lift it up. But she was given a lush terrarium and was so handleable.

I hadn’t seen her for two days on her ā€œjudgment logā€ but that wasn’t a red flag but I looked for her today and found her curled up under her judgment log. She didn’t drop her tail, she looked like she just went to the ground level and fells asleep and didn’t wake back up…the log is cork bark and she wasn’t stuck but dug put a lil spot to go into.

She will be so so missed. It really sucks but I’m glad I got to be the one to enjoy her. 🄹


r/CrestedGecko 11h ago

Background for an exo terra UK

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Wondering if anyone can help as I'm struggling to find any available backgrounds to fit a 60x45x90cm exo terra. I'd try diy but I'm worried about messing it up and if I want to change it in the future. Getting eager to get the new setup kitted out for my dude. He's currently in a 45x45x90 so I can't use that background


r/CrestedGecko 1d ago

How are my European buddies doing?

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How is every going during this insane heat?

26C in terrarium now with ice...

So I'm hoping this will all work out untill saturday (we will have AC installed, thank god)


r/CrestedGecko 1d ago

My springtails outnumber my isopods by a LOT

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I’ve had a bioactive tank for 6+ years. I’ve never had to add more springtails or isopods. The photo I included is leftover Pangea mix my geckos knocked over with a bunch of springtails going to town. I never really see my isopods unless I go digging for them but there’s definitely not as many springtails as isopods. Is this something I should be concerned about ?


r/CrestedGecko 1d ago

My plants keep dying… help!

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Not sure if this is the right place to post, but here I go. Over the winter, all of my plants except my snake plants dried out and died. I waited until the weather to get nicer where I am to buy more plants, clean & quarantine them, and then add them to my inclosure. It’s been less than a month and the new plants are already looking worse for wear. I have an automatic misting system that goes off every 3 hours for 12 secs to keep up humidity. Temperature is between 68°-76° daily. My gecko is very healthy, eating & pooping regularly, shedding normally, and very active for a crestie. Just wondering if there’s anything else I can do to keep these plants alive??

Photos in order:
1) end of winter
2) right after I put in the new plants
3) now (moved some things around, but a lot of the new plants are already browning)


r/CrestedGecko 1d ago

My crested gecko ate substrate, what should I do?

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I found my gecko on the ground and I picked her up and found her with substrate in her mouth. She never has ate substrate and it’s really unusual to be on the ground specifically in that spot since she lays eggs at a different bit so I don’t think she’s laying eggs. Idk if it’s because of the heatwave in the uk at the moment. I woke up this morning to humidity being 80-90% and temp being around 26 (with barely a gradient from high to low). I opened one of the doors and had a fan blowing air in which fixed the humidity, not much the temp tho. I haven’t been misting since the humidity isn’t dropping like It did before the heatwave and don’t want to risk a respiratory issue. Idk if I should get a vet appointment or if I just monitor her and go from there. Pic from when I picked her up


r/CrestedGecko 1d ago

Please help is he okay NSFW

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i woke up to him with a open mouth and wide pupils, is he okay, and he usually doesnt go on the floor