I was so excited when we got these two leopard geckos from a cardiologist that we work with. They were once a part of her child's classroom but since they weren't taken care of well she asked if we would take them. It gave us the opportunity to create a different type of environment since they are dry/desert climate geckos. We went to our favorite local garden shop to pick out some succulents and obtain some play sand. We mixed the play sand with peat moss for the substrate and planted the succulents. They have a fake rock to hide the burrow we created underneath and a heat lamp to keep it nice and toasty. There is also some moss inside the burrow which we keep damp help them shed. It is very important for them to have some moisture so that they shed properly, if they don't it can cause a stricture and they can loose extremities. One of these geckos actually lost a limb and the other it's tail from this very problem.
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