Leopard Gecko Dropped His Tail

Leopard geckos have a nice defense mechanism that allows them to drop their tails if they feel threatened. In the wild they drop the tail, which in turn moves and jumps around to trick their predator into grabbing the tail while the gecko scoots away.

Treating a Leopard Gecko Dropped Tail

In captivity, there typically isn't that much fear of predators except for the occassional cat that can get in the cage or escapee gecko, but even still it happens. Although, the tail does grow back, it isn't as lovely as the original tail, which is why you must do your best to prevent a tail drop, but sometimes it happens.

Caring for Leopard Geckos

Although they are probably the easiest pet reptile to take care of, there are so many simple mistakes you can make. So before you invest in caring for a species that can live an average of 15 to 20 years, you want to make sure that you will be able to provide that to the gecko.

When bringing any new pet into your life, make sure to know and understand the proper husbandry, diet, and overall care for the species.

Leopard geckos come in a variety of colors and patterns, but all must be taken care of the same way. Just because you have a blazing blizzard and your friend has a tangerine, the same care goes into both morphs as they are the same species just a different color.

Anyway, for more information, check out the link below.

Help Caring for Leopard Geckos

Setting up a Leopard Gecko Enclosure

Setting up a leopard gecko enclosure is pretty important for the accurate care of the species in captivity. You want to make sure that you provide the best environment possible to ensure that your new, or potential pet remains healthy and happy in your care.

How to Set Up a Leopard Gecko Enclosure

Setting up a Natural Enclosure for a Leopard Gecko

It's often assumed that because leopard geckos are desert reptiles, they live naturally on sand, but the truth is that only 20% of the world's deserts are composed of loose sand. So, if you want to create a true natural habitat for a leopard gecko, you'll want to purchase rock tiles. The following link will give you plant advice and general advice for setting up a natural enclosure for a leopard gecko.

Native Habitat of the Leopard Gecko & Setting up a Natural Enclosure

Remember that this is not something for a beginner to take part in. And, no, 2 years isn't enough to create a true natural habitat. But, read the above article and see what you think. Maybe it will help evoke ideas to create your own version.

Best Pets for Small Children

So here is one of my submissions for the 'pets' topic a few days back. This hub won me best hub of the day. :-D

Best Pets for Small Children

If you have any suggestions of other good pets for children, leave me a comment and let me know your suggestions.

Leopard Gecko

Leopard geckos are one of the better beginner reptiles that one can have. They have relatively easy husbandry requirements, making Caring For Leopard Geckos pretty simple. Being a smaller reptile in the pet trade, leopard geckos only need at minimum a 10 gallon aquarium, again making housing them come with ease.

Leopard geckos are insectivores, eating crickets, mealworms, superworms, butterworms, roaches, waxworms, silkworms, and phenix worms. But, sometimes when they're sick or stressed, the will not eat. If the temperatures in their enclosure are not correct, they may stop eating, as well. When your leopard gecko stops eating, you can tray various things. Do NOT try force feeding, unless it is you absolute last possible option! When you notice weight loss from you leopard gecko's tail and body weight, you may want to take the gecko to the vet. You can try a different feeder insect, and lastly, you could try the leopard gecko slushy.


After researching,caring for leopard geckos for years, preparing incubators and lay boxes, and even made plans as to where the hatchlings will go, then you're ready for Breeding Leopard Geckos.

Breeding Leopard Geckos

Breeding Leopard Geckos can be a fairly easy task if you have your mind set on it. But, at the same time there are a few factors that are involved when breeding. You MUST have an incubator, incubation medium, a male and female pair, and a lot of patients.

Problems with Your Reptiles

With pet snakes, a big problem can be mites. My Snake Has Mites! goes over a few solutions for getting rid of mites in your snake's enclosure.



Leopard geckos are usually pretty hardy little critters. That's why they're top on the beginner reptile list. But, sometimes they will stop eating. The following article goes over a few things to consider and some possible solutions to getting your gecko to eat again.

My Leopard Gecko Quit Eating

Caring for The Two Most Popular Pet Reptile

I have two bearded dragons. After researching and begging for one for probably two years, I finally got a baby bearded dragon for my birthday one year. She was so small. I knew right away she need crickets and veggies. Many people don't know that...

Bearded Dragons join leopard geckos on the top kept reptile. Although the two vary in size and diet, they are both docile reptiles, which make great pets, especially beginner pets. But, sometimes their diet, isn't followed through correctly. I've heard people say that they've NEVER fed their bearded dragon veggies. WHAT? Not good. Well, reading Bearded Dragon Diet you can see the different produce items that you can feed bearded dragons as well as how much to feed them.

Leopard geckos are one of my favorite gecko species. They come in SO many morphs (colors), ranging from tangerine, yellow, albino, jungle, red eyes, black eyes, etc. There are so many possibilities out there for the Eublepharis macularius species.

On top of that, leopard geckos are one of the most owned reptile species due to their ease in captivity as well as their very docile temperaments. But, just because many people own leopard geckos, it doesn't necessarily mean they know how to properly take care of them. Here is a basic caresheet for Caring For Leopard Geckos.

Choosing A Pet Reptile

When deciding upon getting your first reptile, it can be a hard decision. Trying to maintain a docile pet that you can hold, yet appealing. It's always best to do your research before purchasing any animal. Here's an informative article about the best beginner reptiles to have. The information in the article is taken from person experience and word of mouth from other reptile hobbiest.

Best Beginner Reptile

Once you have decided upon a reptile of choice, you then need to decide where to get it. Before You Buy Retail Reptiles... is a great article about retail reptiles. It goes over the pros and cons about buying reptiles from corporate retail petstores. Personal experiences were used as examples in the article.

Animals

I have too many... Ha... Well, it's true.

I have had dogs all my life. My experience with dogs ranges from volunteering weekly for 5 plus years are various dog rescues. Dog training for over a year. And just plain personal experiences.

As for my experience with reptiles; I have been researching reptiles for over 7 years, and have owned them for over 4. I have a small hobby business breeding leopard geckos, african fat tail geckos, and crested geckos. goreptiles.com

My experience with small and furry animals goes so far as 10 years off and on hands on experience and research. I was the certified specialist for a retail petstore, as well.

The list of my zoo inludes:

REPTILES

• 12 leopard geckos
• 5 african fat tail geckos
• 2 crested geckos
• 2 bearded dragons
• 1 ball python

SMALL AND FURRY

• 3 rats
• 2 chinchillas
• 1 hamster
• 1 mouse

DOGS

• 1 yorkie (mine)
• 1 pit bull (mine)
• 1 mutt: hound/heinz 57 dog (partially mine)
• 1 dalmatian (cute dog at the house)
• 1 st bernard/collie mix (my mother's)

Please take everything written in this blog as personal experiences unless otherwise said.