New to Leopard Geckos

[rob.kolm]

We just got a Leo for my 6 year olds room and I want to make sure we have set it up right.
29 gallon tank. Small heat pad on hot side bottom , 150 watt ceramic on hot side for day, 50 watt night bulb for night. Ceramic tile on most of the enclosure with reptile carpet on cool side. Hidey hole on cool side with moist reptile moss. He is a baby so feeding pinheads and small mealworms. Anything else I should be doing?

 

[laurahlove]

Are you dusting the food with calcium and vitamins? Make sure you do that. You need calcium with D3 and without, and a vitamin supplement. What are your temps? Im pretty sure a 150 watt is way too hot.

 

[rob.kolm]

Hot side about 90 cold side about 80. I can move down to a 100 watt ceramic if need be.

 

[laurahlove]

You want your warm side to be in the high 80s, (about 88) so I would just advise you to make sure it doesn't go any higher, and if you can since its such a big tank, try to bring down the cool side to around 76 or so. They need to be able to have a lot of different 'options' in temps in case they get too hot or too cold.

 

[rob.kolm]

Thanks I will move to a lower watt heat lamp

 

[laurahlove]

No problem

 

[Josh2]

Looks like a good setup! Another trick with the higher wattages would be to just move the fixture back a little bit. That should lower your temps enough
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