Building A Naturalistic Leopard Gecko Tank!!
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Step by Step on how I built my Leopard Gecko's naturalistic arid setup! Links To Products Below! I use a combination of real rocks, fake rocks, slate, expanding foam, sealant and grit/sand. Enjoy!
Background/Rocks are from www.rockways.c...
THINGS I USED
Touch n Foam Expanding Foam amzn.to/2lprDDW
Aquarium Safe Sealant amzn.to/2Mai8nn
Thermostat amzn.to/2K5KwcP
Heat Mat amzn.to/2lmOHmE
OTHER THINGS USED IN PREVIOUS BUILDS
Drainage HydroBalls amzn.to/2lpb6zW
Hydro Fleece amzn.to/2llXMft
MY LINKS
/ leopardgeckoyoutube
/ leopardgeckoyoutube
/ leopardgeckotalk
www.younow.com...
#LeopardGeckoSetup #TankBuild #NaturalisticTank
Terrarium design is an artform.
Go check out Serpadesign and you'll see how true that is
Yes and I love it!!
Yes it is
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Its a review on dirt how is this getting demonitized!
hahaaa no clue :')
because the leaves look like.. a certain type of plant...
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My stepmom has recently gotten into air plants and you’d be surprised at how many varieties there are. She’s even had some bloom for her. Great job on the tank, he looks like he loves it. ❤️
aw yeah they're such cool plants, very slow growing, but once they bloom they are beautiful! Thanks :D
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It’s BEAUTIFUL!
aww thank you :)
So I have been watching you old videos because I just got a leopard gecko.
awesome, thanks for watching :)
I got my first leopard gecko 3 weeks ago, and your videos really help me do my research. Thank you so much you’re one of my favorite UA-camrs 😁🤩
I watched this video way back when I was just learning about leopard geckos. Now I've had mine for a little while and this gives me such nostalgia
I think the new setup looks great
aw thanks :D
This is amazing! My gecko is turning a year old soon, and this video gave me a ton of ideas on how to customize a new background for her tank, now that she's growing and I'd like some more areas for her to explore. Thanks for this, and all the great care info you provide on your channel-- It really helped me out as a new reptile owner!
Your channel inspired me to go out and buy a gecko knowing that she will be cared for well, and now I have a healthy 8-month-old gecko because of you. Thank you for everything in general
Leopard gecko channel: does review on dirt
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Hey sorry this was kinda old, it was dumb. I shouldn’t have copied
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Love your videos and I’ve had my leopard gecko for 8 months and she’s doing great thanks to your care videos on leopard geckos!
thank you! ah thats brilliant :D
I used to have a sandy floored, one cactus, and 2 water holes that were dirty, I though i was doing it right, then I watched you and reset up my cage, now it’s carpet with lots of different clean water holes and it’s exotic, not desserty, and it now has a heat mat, thank you! You saved my Leo’s
I recommend eco earth, they love to dig in it :)
Joey Guy also, are they housed together?
Fiona Shepley yea
Joey Guy please separate them ASAP!
Bought my first leopard gecko yesterday and I'm hooked on your channel. Your videos are extremly informative and I just adore how you handle your geckos. I've seen so many videos with distressed geckos and horrible tanks, it's a joy finding a reptile youtuber who has such calm and relaxed animals.
I might be getting a leopard gecko soon! Im so excited!
me to
ahhh woo :D good luck guys!
Me 2
Great pets, great personality , 15 to 20 year lifespan easy to care for , I breed them if you have any questions , such feisty goofy little guys .
Cool! Good luck! I am a new owner too and you will have some bumps but you will make a lifelong friend!
Great job! This vivarium is looking amazing. You have been doing an excellent job at designing these naturalistic vivariums. Once again, another amazing video! Also, it was so cool to get a shout out at the end. Thank you so much!
Thank you Trent :D
Air plants do just amazing indoors. But it is best to hang them outside is mostly or partial shade. If you implement some kind of natural grow light inside the tank near the plant the air plant will be fine inside there.
i'll add my own air plant quirk, you can use the dirty water from Diego's water bowl to fill up a spray bottle and spray the air plants to feed them.
One major tip to "air plants". In Nature they rarely live on a Rock, or dead material. They love a living/dead plant,tree,stomp as underground to attach to.
The microclima is whats suits them the best.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphyte
Just throw a Bark in there, but 2-3 air plants together on it, and they will do better. Mine a more shadow dweller since 2 years in my Crested Gecko tank, so iam not sure about direct sunlight.
Either way good video
Silberschutz they will appreciate some morning sun when you give them a good soak or spray. But your plants will be fine.
thanks! Yeah to be honest its been sat in a glass terrarium on some rocks at the back of my room for ages, so i thought i'd give it a bit of a fancier home, but I will take it out now and again.
I need 25 min of you talking about Diego in my life!
hahaa :')
I love that new setup!!!!!!!!
thank you :D
Looks amazing! I'll be referencing this when I do my tank upgrades 😊
thank you!! :)
I'm Looking at getting a leopard gecko and this is exactly the kind of setup I'm thinking natural looking with hot,cold,humid hides possibly some wood to climb on
If you want to add plants without a drainage layer use a small pot and use a small succulent and use the reptile safe loose substrate to plant it in a pot
Also Im glad that its normal for geckos to be weirded out when you change their cage! Mine always explore and have fast breathing whenever I clean their cage :)
I’m buying a leopard gecko next month and your videos really help me out when buying great things.thanks❤️
awesome, glad i can help :)
Thanks for the video! Perfect timing as I am going to be rehousing my bold snow very, very soon. :)
aww awesome, yes perfect timing :D
Ahh so many great ideas!! I’ll hopefully be getting a leopard gecko sometime next week. I’m so excited! I can’t wait until I can get his new home all set up!!
I am so glad I watched this video! My leopard gecko gets anxiety after I spot clean his tank, so I was looking into bioactive for him to minimize spot cleaning. I looked all over but only this video that I have seen so far has mentioned a gecko dragging their tail after cleaning. I was scared he was preparing to drop his tail! But I feel better now knowing that is normal for such a situation. You described everything he does after I clean, and now I can relax knowing he's fine.
I have the same hide for my Leo Diego and I always hate it when he would crawl into the tree trunk and it made some pretty cute pics when he would poke his head out but it was so frustrating trying to find him and being scared half to death and so I blocked off the bottom and put in some of my substrate and now I put in a plant and it works beautifully!❤️
I think it’s gorgeous!
aw thank you :D
I really like the tank set up. So many places for your boy to climb and explore ^.^
thank you :D yes, its always funny looking in his tank and finding him in a new place :)
Hello Rebecca, I love it!. Even though my little ones are in clear plastic containers I have things they can hide and crawl around on too.
So funny to watch them crawl through the cute fake log to go into their moist hides even when they don't have to. So I know they love their apartment setups.
Looks like your little one is enjoying what you did for him too. It is so amazing. Upgrades are fun.
Jessica's Animal Friends loves doing them too. If you never have checked out her channel you should. I think you have though.
You both have the same love for leopard geckos. How can we not.
They never stop smiling 😁.
God's blessings to you and yours, Lin
Hey Lin, ah yeah leos can be kept in a variety of setups, Ive been meaning to upgrade his tank for ages, Gizmo's will be next :D
Oo i'll have to check her out, thanks :D
Leopard Gecko , you will love Jessica. Tell her I sent you. She has 20 something special needs geckos. Plus other little ones. All have been rescued. Or from craigslist.
I also wanted you to know my little ones "apartments are large ones. They are longer than high. My husband had to carry them downstairs because they were to big for me to carry safely.
Just wanted you to know that they have enough room. The pet store that I volunteer at to hold the reptiles to tame them a little.
The one one gals that works there wants to come back as one of my little ones she dies. Lol I think Heaven would be better. 😉
I just got my first loepard gecko today
Ellie Whaley
Nice!
congrats
Congrats! They're so cute!!
I got mine on thursday from my teacher. I named mine Fluffy🙂😊😀
ah awesome! Good luck :D
This helped me a lot about what to buy so thank you so so so soooo much 💖
aw no problem, glad i could help :)
Yes! One for Diego, I’m going to make one based off of yours in a few weeks for my baby.
aw awesome, if you have instagram you'll have to tag me in a pic :)
Great channel still in the research phase on getting a leopard gecko and your videos are really helping. thanks!
I think it’s pretty awesome
Looks amazing ,just got my first gecko and gave me some great ideas
Amazing video!!! I love Diego, he's so cuuute!!!
thank you :D :D
Love the video👌 Very helpful. I tried making an expanding foam background for my crested gecko once although I'd let the foam set and then realised I'd forgot to put coco fiber, rocks and his hide on the foam to set in it so I'd ended up with a big lump of plain white hard foam that I had to throw away 😅
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Yay! Another vid :D thanks Diego is gunna enjoy his new home 🙌🙌
haha hope so :D
I have the same hide as Diego for my Leo and feeders never really got in it but as a baby my Leo would stay in it for hours and the only indication that he wasn’t stuck was seeing him just pick up his head lol
I got a leopard gecko about a month ago and she came with a ten gallon tank. She is a fully grown but I don't know if I should move her to a 20 gallon or keep it a 10. Some advice would be great. The tank came out really well too, to be honest though, I probably would have ruined everything😂 Great job and keep up the amazing work!
Infinite Galaxy Gaming 20 would definitely be better
Fiona Shepley Thank you so much, I needed someone's advice😅
It looks great! I have a tank like that for my Leo and she loves it! Another great vid
thank you :D
I was hoping to see a video from you and that had an air plant in it. I’m hoping to get some air plants for my leopard geckos
Fantastic. Just did my first set up using eco earth. thanks for all the info. my gecko is enjoying the information you shared with us. Thank you! Also be looking at the new soil you are suggesting.
Nice job 👍🏽!
You are the best thank you for linking everything btw beautiful leopard geckos.
Best video hands down I just got my gecko and you helped me alot
aw thank you :D Glad i could help :)
Yay! Another video! I can see how hard u work on ur videos great job:D dieago looks happy!
thank you!! :)
U replied ahhh thank u so much! It means alot cause your the best UA-camr:D Im about to get a little crestie:) and I have a leo
I've saved up alot for like all of my reptiles!! I'm a crazy snake and gecko lady:D
The first set up was wayyyyyyyyyyy better,
I think it's funny that leopard geckos sometimes tend to just hang out in there water bowl (like stick there feed in or sit in it)
Shylo x Fading 770
Lol they’re probably drinking. When mine drinks she barely moves and you can barely tell
The dislikes are the Leo’s that are jelly 😏
I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS
hahaa i have delivered :D
Nice
thanks :)
Nice, more ideas for when I get around to constructing my own tank
thanks!
Love it
thanks to you! im learing more stuff for my leopard gecko
im saving up money for a bigger tank rn i have a 10 gallon and im worried its too small for her but im learning more stuff on what to get and what not thank you
Thanks for the video, I’d love to try a setup like this one day!
aww thanks :)
Really cool looking tank! I’m hoping to do something like this for my gecko someday too:)
ah awesome! :) Thank you :D
It looks amazing
I have a leopard gecko. His name is loki. Few months old.
aww sweet :) great name! :D
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That hide with the root thingy? Wowie have we been through a lot, that and I. I have the exact same one in my girls' tank. I've filled in the root too, now. Because one day, I couldn't find one of my girls. I really thought I was going mad because she was nowhere to be found! Then I picked up the hide and oh, had it always been this heavy? Up from the root popped a head. Yeah... she was in there. Luckily she got out of there by her own, no problem. Now, I rushed to find something to fill that hole with and couldn't find anything more permanent than paper towels but hey, at least it would stop her. Got back just in time to see her disappearing into its depths AGAIN. And this time she meant business and wouldn't come out even though I coaxed her with food. Eventually she did get out and I could stuff it up but man, that shock was intense. Glad you filled yours in because feeder insects aren't the only ones that could potentially get stuck in there lol
Oh and I love how Diego's new tank came out! Next time I'm redoing my tanks I'll definitely look into building something more naturalistic, although I realised my geckos love their hamster house I bought for them as a fun thing so maybe I'll let them keep that a while longer :)
Lakhja I strongly recommend separating them. They’re solitary animals and don’t benefit at all. One person had two females together for three years without issues and a huge tank and multiple hides. Then one bit the other.
I have a year old leopard gecko and the same hide you have but mine doesn't have any plants so my gecko chills in the walls! I always get so scared but there are like three openings so he loves to curl up in there!
hi, I am a new leopard gecko owner and I have a question that has been bugging me. My gecko is about 6 weeks old now and I have done all your suggestions and he seems to be incredibly happy right now. thank you for that. the only thing I am concerned about is the calcium and d3 and multivitamin stuff. I really want my gecko to have a long healthy life because I truly care about him, but the calcium and d3 stuff just confuses me imensly. can you tell me what to use and how often to dust/slash feed the crickets with it. thank you so much, your channel is very cool and keep up the good work. :)
TITANIC GAMING dust with calcium every other feeding and vitamins every three feedings :)
Fiona Shepley and this d3 calcium? thanks for your reply
TITANIC GAMING tbh they only need one calcium. One of the two supplements needs d3 though, unless you use UVB (which is very beneficial)
Fiona Shepley would
Day 1: C-d3
Day 2: C-d3
day 3: VM
day 4: C-d3
day 5: C-d3
day 6: C-d3
day 7: VM
be a good schedule
Again, thanks
TITANIC GAMING it’s best not to dust every feeding. Here’s a good one: Day 1: Calcium Day 2: nothing Day 3: Calcium and multivitamins day 4: nothing day 5: Calcium day 6: multivitamins day 7: Calcium etc. Basically calcium every other feeding, multivitamins every three, and both every six. Or you can get Repashy Calcium Plus (an all in one) and yes that every feeding :)
I'm really indecisive too.
I love this set up and I admire your accent hehehe
This is so cool! What tank did you use?
It looks like a 2 foot of swell reptiles or reptile centre
I got a Leopard gecko my first one bec of this channel. I do have a qestion I forgot the thermometer but he's doing fine what's up with that and do I need the basking light on if I have a heat pad
WILD and REPTILED Do not get a light for a leopard gecko, it can damage their vision
Ice The Simmer ya I wonder y she uses one
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Looks really good 😍
Wow i'm your biggest fan i really love your videos, your videos are so unique and i love them so much, and btw i'm from indonesia 😁😁😁😁😁
Nice video 😎😎
thanks :)
you should put wet moss in your shedding hide
Zoo Girl you don’t need moss. Arcadia earth mix arid holds enough humidity for them to shed well
Love diagos bew cage, you should add some more plants and maybe some driftwood overall I love it
Thanks :) Yeah i only have really big bits of drift wood which wouldnt work well in the tank. I would like to add more plants, we'll see how this air plant goes, and maybe add more in the future :)
Nice I love your pets I have a leopard gecko to so thx for all the information
thank you :D ah nice!
It looks so good!
thanks :D
I really like this tank, it looks great 👍
thank you :D
did you build that tank? or did you buy it and then customize? I love the idea but I'm having trouble understanding the initial tank and materials used for the structure. thanks~
I wonder if it's normal to change the warm side to the other side of the tank
Hi, what do you do for a moist hide, at the minute I have a hide with moss wrapped in kitchen role to stop him eating the moss but watching your video's, which are great by the way, you don't seem to have anything like that. I'm just switching to Arcadia Arid mix, and got some slate and rocks to build up his space a bit more, so do I actually need a moist hide or will making a shelter and keeping the earth moist be enough? I don't use a heat mat , just a basking lamp on a thermostat and uvb light on a timer. Many thanks x
With a leopard gecko which is best heat mat,heat bulb(ceramic, deep heat projector) or both bulb for daytime mat for night or mat with UV and which %
7:50 is so cute
thanks :)
So I have a gecko named Rocky. She is an adult, and she is currently in a 20 gallon long tank. She has all the essentials, three hides, a water dish, a calcium dish, etc. She is on reptile carpet and I’m not really sure if this is the best thing. Therefore, I want to change her tank to a naturalistic tank. However I don’t have all the materials to create an elaborate background that provides places to climb. Rocky is extremely active and loves to climb on things and I want to give her that opportunity. Any suggestions?
Thanks you for all the videos you put out because of you I’m allowed to get a male tangerine
aww thats brilliant!! Good luck :D
Potentially stupid question.. you can use expanding foam to secure real rocks ? Or are those fake?
You sorda sound like the woman who played Jemma in agents of shield lol
Thank you for this because at the end of the month my Leo’s tank ( his name is donut ) is going to have a full makeover
aw no problem, great timing :D love his name!
Leopard Gecko thank you
You are the most British person I know
Hi! This is really cool. Just a question, do you put the heat mat on the bottom of the tank or on the back of the bottom of the tank? Thanks!
I am hoping to get a Gecko. not until I know al about them though so it is happy :)
LOVE IT! what type of dirt is that? And is it save for a juvenile leopard gecko?
Felicidad Trujillo that’s Arcadia EarthMix arid. It’s definitely ok for your gecko, as is eco earth :)
Awesome. You will put some fake/real plants in too right?
maybe, i feel it needs some greenery. I may look out for realistic looking succulents or something - is that cheating? haha
10/10
So trying to find some of these products in the States is a bit frustrating. The Arcadia line isn't available here and for instance, to get the UVB light kit you talked about in a video from last year would cost me $75 dollars- Ouch! I was going to switch from reptile carpet to Eco Earth- now I'm not sure what to do. Also you mentioned both UVB and UVA light in that older video. Is it necessary to get both or will just the UVB suffice? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I love your videos you have very good information but I feel like a few tips from serpadesign would improve and add on to your scaping skills
Are geckos supposed to swim? I was watching mine and she just walked into the water bowl and stayed there... its not because she was hot because her cold hide is fine i just dont really understand
Ellie Bellie a Leo I used to have did that. It can help them shed, or sometimes they may just want the bathe
lol yeah or either she was walking through it then you walked in and she froze :') it happens lol
I think it looks good but i think it would look better if u used echo earth on the back ground but other than that its amazing
yeah i did wonder about that to be fair, but I thought i'd try something different as eco earth and rocks might not look quite right. We live and we learn lol
Where did you get your tank? Please answer I am looking to get a proper set up for my leos, my dad has kept 4 in one 20 gallon tank for 2 years! We are going to sell two and keep the others
:D Thanks -Blue
Are real rocks or stones better than fake ones?
I live my gecko dreams through you lol. My apartment complex doesn't allow reptiles, or any animal besides cats or dogs :,(