Should I Use Calcium sand for my Baby Leopard Gecko or Regular Sand?

Answer 1

Neither, loose substrate is bad, use paper towel, newspaper, or repticarpet.

Answer 2

Neither, sand isn't good for baby leopard geckos. They can die of impaction. Here's how, they try to catch their food and on a missed attempt, they will eat sand. This sand is non digestible so if there is too much, it will get stuck usually resulting in death. For babies you can use repti carpet, paper towel, or alfalfa pellets. When your baby gets to be one year old, then you can consider using sand.

This sand should be .5mm or smaller. NEVER use calcium sand no matter what the age. If your leo doesn't have enough calcium, she will lap up the sand and will cause impaction. Make sure you have a dish with a spoonful of calcium powder in which she can get her calcium. Or you can dust the crickets or mealworms that you feed your leo once a week with calcium powder.

You should use regular sand that is .5mm. They will supply this at your local pet store.

Hope I helped.

Answer 3

Sand is just horrible for reptiles, period.

Goto walmart and buy a Non-Adhesive Shelf Liner (for like 8 bucks) and it will last you years. Cut it to the size of your tank with scissors and voila! Easy to clean shelf liner that'll last forever.

Answer 4

Neither. Paper Towels or Newspaper for substrate.

Answer 5

I read from several sources that sand or other loose substrate causes the majority of digestive impacts for reptiles. I would suggest newspaper. Just keep the calcium powder available to them in a small tray or on their food. Here's a good site with additional info: http://www.leopardgeckocare.net/vivarium...

Answer 6

I personally like the repticarpet because if you buy enough you can cut out two pieces making tank cleaning much easier. While one is in the wash and drying, the other is in the tank.