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How to Pick Crested Geckos
Crested Gecko Habitat Size
Crested Gecko Habitat Lighting & Heating
Crested Gecko Substrate
Moss in Crested Gecko Substrate
Basic Crested Gecko Care Tips
Crested Gecko Diet
Crickets for Crested Geckos
Crested Gecko Behavior
Handling Crested Geckos
Types of Crested Geckos
Identifying Crested Gecko Problems
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Summary: Lighting and heating are very important for crested geckos, which are tropical animals. Learn how to properly light and heat the crested gecko habitat in this free pet care video.
Cordell Jacques has worked in the pet industry for more than 10 years. He is also a reptile hobbyist in one form or another. Jacques keeps more than 20 various reptiles, frogs, fish...read more
"The next thing that I want to talk about is your proper lighting and heating, for a crested gecko. Crested geckos are a tropical species, they don't need as much heating as say a desert species does but a little bit of heating might still be necessary, depending on your home. You need to keep the gecko anywhere between seventy two to seventy-five degrees temperature. You can go a little bit higher but don't go too much more than eighty-five, at any stretch of the imagination. Often case, a simple heat fixture, just like this, a lamp with a ceramic top, always make sure you have a ceramic top, and a twenty-five or a fifty watt bulb, usually, seventy-five tops, will do you, as far as heating goes. Again, you're not going and looking for any super high temperatures you just want to keep the cage at a constant, slightly warm temperature, just above what you probably keep your house at. The other thing you need to think about also, is the UVB light. UVB comes from florescent fixtures, either a compact or the good old tube fixture, and what that does is the UVB, gives the animal UVB light, which he needs to create vitamin D three, in his body, and move calcium into the bone structure. It's always a good thing to have, especially for young animals as they're growing and they need all the calcium they can get. This will probably, it's not going to put off a lot of heat, but if you're keeping your house in the seventy-two degree area already, one of these is probably enough to keep your crested gecko nice and happy. What we're looking for in a crested gecko's cage, is not necessarily high heats but you do want a high humidity. You definitely want to keep the humidity up and the heat to around seventy to seventy-five degrees."
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geck00 said
on 8/18/2009 Great Video, but about the UVB and the lamp, do they all need to be on at all times and the first lamp you had showed me, how do you set a temperature on it
it might sound a bit silly but it is my first time....
Thanks and please reply as soon as possible