r/Mourninggeckos

My girls are allowed to move into their new, bigger home and I've seen them carry eggs. This is an Exo Terra 45x45x60 cm and I closed the holes in the lid with the latch. Is it enough that babies can't break out? Should I make sure I have something else that I might overlook? Thanks for every tip.

They were very excited for their fruity Pangea. Hopefully the little ones got to get a lick in 💕

This is my bioactive mourning gecko tank. There are two adult geckos, a fern, and some golden pothos cuttings. I added 10 powder oranges isopods about a week ago, and within the next day I found three dead. Since then I haven’t seen a single one. Yesterday I added ten more powder isopods from my colony, this time with more cork bark and leaf litter to hide under. Still, this morning I only found one, the rest were nowhere to be found. Do you think that my geckos are eating all of them? I saw one try to hunt an isopod once, but I stopped her. I also had a theory that maybe my leaf litter is contaminated, but I’m not sure. Advice would be appreciated!

A little ink & watercolour.

So far I have to say that using flex seal was not worth it, I still had to silicone everything and the flex seal took 2 weeks to off gas.

Spray foam SUUUUCKS to apply when the unit is vertical (the grouted foam board took a lot of time but at least it kept its shape and silicone was enough to hold it up while drying)

I used WAAAAAY MORE silicone than I thought I would, one bottle by itself went straight to making a seal for the door

I set up 3 places for plastic bottle cap spots for feeding dishes

I have 4 hydro/thermometers

I also have a 50W halogen UV bulb for the basking spot up top. The unit came with a 75W and it has a dimmer, but I’m just going to test the 50W to see how it goes.

I’m planning on wandering Jew for the canopy, 1 begonia (planning on gathering some more) for the mid level. But I’m not sure what to put for the floor cover because it’s kinda dark down there even with 4 grow lights. My original plan was nerve plant, but I’m not sure.

If you have any plant recommendations please let me know!

From a $100 ikea cabinet to a planted and ready to grow terrarium for a bunch of tiny lesbian lizards!

The bottom layer I have 2 Begonia Rex varieties (lower one is Huge McLauchin the other one is Silver star)

Transendecia (Wandering Jew) for the middle layers I just spread those around in piles of dirt and moss. It was $5 for the 3 so I was willing to put them in less than ideal locations that I thought would look good dropping from.

Dendrobium Nora Takunaga is the big green one right under the top cork bridge. Apparently the flower lasts a long time and I like the shape of it without the flower anyway

Dendrobium Lodigessi are a bunch of trimming scattered around the top to form a canopy of Lush green vines. This one will never flower because I can’t give it a winter chill and not kill everything else

I’m thinking of getting a PC fan or try to adjust my misting so I can get the lower levels to 70% and the upper levels to 50% humidity. I’ll try doing once a day misting for a bit and see how that goes while keeping the basking spot at 29C.

Another thing I was thinking was instead of having the extremes at the top and bottom (29-21C/85-70F), put a heat pad at the bottom and lower the basking spot to 26/80 degrees. I know everyone says to have a temperature gradient, but I don’t know if it’s better to not have the extreme ends of their temperature tolerance in the thank

I think I’ll let this chill for a month and establish itself before adding in any geckos. Well……. At least that’s the plan 😅

I’m unsure if I should add the leaf litter and my clean up crew now or do it at the same time as the geckos