Tropical Lizard Cages

Video Transcript

"The next thing we're going to talk about is the tropical enclosure, which is your crested gecko would fall under. You need a much higher humidity inside their enclosure, so there's going to be daily, if not twice daily misting. Plus, you'll need a much deeper substrate than you would for the bearded dragons as it's going to help--or the leopard gecko, because it's going to help hold the humidity inside the enclosure. Now, tropical enclosures bring their own problems along with them. If you don't have enough ventilation or air flow within a tropical enclosure, you're going to get a lot of mold or fungus growing, so you'll--it'll be a daily basis of checking that sort of thing as well, to make sure that there's no fungus or mold growing anywhere inside on the substrate, as those can be detrimental to the health of the crested gecko. Also, the crested gecko, unlike the bearded dragon or the leopard gecko, they are a arboreal lizard, so they need a higher enclosure with much more hiding spaces, and branches inside to climb on. It can be a little more difficult to design and set up, than say a leopard gecko or bearded dragon. However, since they are a tropical animal, and they come from an area of the world where the heat isn't nearly as high, you need a much less heating on a crested gecko, and your heating costs therefore will be much lower. You're looking at somewhere around the seventy-two to seventy-five degree temperatures, topping out at eighty at the most."