| Humid or moist hides are vital for leopard geckos | | | | We have found that a hole placed on the top of the |
| health. Without access to proper moisture and | | | | container is much better that one placed on the side. |
| humidity most leopard geckos have trouble shedding. | | | | Leopard geckos are good climbers and good diggers. |
| Some will even experience toe loss and problems | | | | A hole on the side often leads to all the vermiculite |
| digesting food. But what exactly is a humid or moist | | | | being kicked out of the container. One note of |
| hide. The best way to provide a humid hide is a | | | | caution. Baby leopard geckos should never be given a |
| plastic container with a hole for access. The container | | | | humid or moist hide with perlite or vermiculite. Instead |
| should have 2-4 inches of perlite, vermiculite, or moss | | | | their moist hide should be a damp paper towel in |
| on the bottom. This substrate should be moist but | | | | small plastic container. It is very easy for baby |
| not sopping wet. A good way to test this is to | | | | geckos to eat the perlite or vermiculite and become |
| squeeze a ball of this substance in your hand. It | | | | impacted. We lost one of our very first babies to |
| should drip slightly but not pour water. Heat is | | | | impaction this way and it was only after months of |
| essential, so place this container over the hot side of | | | | care that our other babies were able to pass all the |
| their enclosure. | | | | perlite that they had eaten. |