Michal Szkudlarek wrote:Ilian Velikov wrote:Michal, I think Ruggero has a point about the substrate. I don't think what you have is the best for your gecko. Most Leopard Gecko terrariums I've seen have fine sand as substrate, even the ones from the website you linked to are on sand. Besides if you put sand and a couple of stones/rocks it would look much more natural and much closer to their semi-desert sandy-gravel, rock natural habitat than those artificial looking balls.
Also don't forget that there's a big difference between an animal in captivity and a wild one. In their natural habitat there's a combination of multiple factors which makes it suitable for them. It is very hard to recreate all this in a terrarium, i.e. putting just rocks at the bottom without having all the other conditions present in a semi-desert could have a negative rather than positive effect. Another good example are turtles - a lot of the aquatic ones live in the wild in waters with very muddy bottom where they burrow themselves but you can't keep a turtle in a tank full of mud and black water where it would certainly get some decease or infection.
Over Polish internet people dissuade from having sand with this species as it can eat sand and get their digestive system obstructed.
I knew the problem, and, in fact, I did not recommended sand to you. But the problem of ingestion is not solved with your clay, which contains always many smaller pieces which can be ingested, and which is prone to be broken anyway in smaller pieces.
The problem of substrate in terraristic is the biggest problems of all, I think, but probably on this forum we are not allowed to write about terraristic. Or not?