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[martinb20]

i recently brought a male and female leopard Geckos and had them now 2-3 weeks but they just don't seem to have a good appetite and i don't know what im doing wrong? the temp at their cave end is about 85-90F their tails seem healthy and quite fat so am i just worrying?

[lizbethse]

Hi

Is this the normal viv you keep them in? May I suggest thay you use a glass one rather than plastic and another hide at least, sometimes they prefer they're own space. Also I would prefer them to be on kitchen roll ( my preference) rather than on newspaper as I found if it gets wet it will make your geckos look dirty with the print ink. How are you heating the viv?
This is only my suggestion and not critisizing you in any way. Also noticed that you dont have a small dish with calcium in.
Regards
Sheila
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Bearded Dragons 2.3.19 Oscar, Archie, Crystal,Katy and Petal

[martinb20]

there heated in my rack via heat cable and there is a dish of calcium next to the blue lid full of millworms.

they seem to just stay in there cave all the time

[lizbethse]

ok seen the calcium dish, ideally they should have one 3rd underneath their viv heated and the other half cool, they should have a hide at the cool end and one at the warm end and a moist hide to help them shed. They need the heat underneath to help them digest their food. small crickets dusted with calcium and if they are juvies i would suggest 2 days a week dusting with a vit powder. They will hide during the day as they are night time gecko's. Hoping this will help. Also if they are male and female the male will pester the female constantly and would consider seperating them.
regards
Sheila
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Bearded Dragons 2.3.19 Oscar, Archie, Crystal,Katy and Petal

[martinb20]

1/3rd is heated where the cave is and has moist moss there, they are only about 4 months so none of them are sexual mature, my other 2 Leos are fine together 1 male and female and she constanly laying eggs.

ill add another hide or 2 too see if this helps them they where originally from a group of about 10 and all seemed to be feeding well.

thanks

[jakeus]

[martinb20]

yeah i know they are nocturnal just my other two are so more active at night then these the minute i put food in there they are on the attack but with these guys they don't seem bothered.

Ive justed added another 2 small another moist one and a dry one

[stubeanz]

ive found that when moving leo's into new surroundings they tend not to eat for a lil while but should start eating soon.
what are you feeding them try crickets, mealworms, locust, lobster roaches? they all have differnt tastes i have a blazing blizard that just eats mealworms and turns his nose up at anything else but i also have a blizard that will eat anything
geckos can be kept in plastic tubs (really useful boxes are best because of them locking) as long as they are heated correctly.
stu
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[Jas]

See if you can find out what they was being fed on before you got them, like Stubeanz said some of them do have different tastes.
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