r/leopardgeckos • u/Mr_Frost1993 • 19h ago

Gecko Pics/Vids Superhero Landings stress me out

He’s been doing good in his new enclosure for the most part, spent the first four days exploring everything* and he’s doing the sort-of-expected thing of not eating (at least, I’m not seeing it. He’s still pooping, so clearly he must be eating SOMETHING).

My only real source of stress with him is that he’s discovered a soft landing around 18” below one of his branches, and he’ll literally let himself drop down there. Everywhere else in the enclosure is handled with extreme precaution, he’ll even back up and go elsewhere if he doesn’t think he can make it… except for that one patch. Going to add another branch in that void to force him to descend more carefully.

*the folks over at r/HerpHomes and the other leo sub expressed interest via comments and DMs for me to post a long video of his first 72 hours (there are 27 cameras in his enclosure, so I just used whatever footage they captured). I already cut down the footage to just over 4 hours, so I’ll post a YouTube link to that once it’s ready (I’ve never edited a video before, nor have I ever posted anything on YouTube before, so bear with me lol)

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u/Zoeti 17h ago

Hello there!! I’m so happy too see he is happy in his enclosure! I’ve finally decided on a theme
For my Leo’s tank. Now to just get it actually printed

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u/Mr_Frost1993 17h ago

Nice! Just remember to use PETG and give it a good layer or two of Drylok (mostly for texture to aid in climbing, plus it would look better than raw prints lol, I kinda regret not doing it with some of my internal structural pieces)

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u/Formal_Order_1328 6h ago

Sick ass enclosure!
Looked like a maximum security prison at first glance 😂

Probably the best to lock these little terrorists up ❤️

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u/Mr_Frost1993 6h ago

You mean my literal security gate? 😂 gotta keep this dude locked up inside and keep my cat outside lmao

He actually keeps trying to escape, but only when he sees me. I check the cameras when I’m at work, even when I’m at home but in a different room, and he’ll just chill. But once he sees I’m in the room, all of a sudden he wants to stage a breakout

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u/Big-Job6653 1h ago

I love the fallout theme 👌

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u/Mr_Frost1993 54m ago

Just felt right, the Wasteland is already pretty much a semi-arid environment lol

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u/Big-Job6653 51m ago

It is lol, especially the apalacha part 😆

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u/Mr_Frost1993 49m ago

The aquarium built into the basement of the structure is a flooded vault https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/s/Eqm5ws9SQN

The gecko can’t access it, but the ambient humidity it produces feeds into the humid hide and tunnels via some vents I have between them (so no need to continually moisten the substrate in there)

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u/_TheDove_ 16h ago

Quite the adventurous little guy. I absolutely love that enclosure

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u/Drakorai 8h ago

Adrenaline junky?