What size of a cage do u need for a leopard gecko?

Question

how many galons, is a 10 gallon big enough.

Answer 1

10 gallon is plenty big for a leo as long as he lives alone. Once mine are fully grown (it'll be a year or so before that happens) I plan on getting them a 15 gallon but thats only because i like to spoil them! They each have their own 10 gallon for now

Answer 2

That should be good for one, only one. but remember... the bigger... the better.

Here is some extra good facts you should know about housing your Gecko.

    *  Use paper toweling or newspaper for the cage bottom. You can see when it is soiled and the cost is low.

    * Never use fine sand as a substrate since geckos up to 5" in length may eat the sand and become impacted.

    * Always provide water in a shallow lid or bowl that won't spill.

    * Use a gallon jar lid or shallow plant dish to serve as a food bowl. It's nice if the insects you are using as feed don't escape from this bowl..

    * Use a 6" wide plastic container for a hide box. Fill the container with moist peat moss or Vermiculite and cut a 1 1/2" diameter hole in the lid or side to serve as an entrance for your pet.

    * Mist the hide box medium daily. This aids in skin shedding, which they eat.

    * Provide a screen top for your cage; especially if you have young children or cats.

    * Keep the gecko cage off the floor and create a temperature of 82-88 F for the daytime. The night temperature can go as low as 64 F with no ill effects. Heat can be gained from commercially available reptile heat tapes, hot rocks or a 40-watt light bulb placed over to screen cage top to reach the needed daytime high temperature. Twelve hours of light is fine.

    * Feed four live food items daily per gecko.

    * Never let direct sunlight strike your cage, since it will overheat quickly, like a closed automobile standing in open sun, and kill your pet.

    * Never have more than one male gecko per cage. Adult males of all types of lizards will fight each other, and sometimes to the death, if they come into contact. A male will vibrate its tail rapidly when it sees another gecko. If the other gecko in turn vibrates its tail in the same fashion then each of them knows that contact has been made with another male and a fight will occur. If, however, a male signals his presence via the tail shaking and the other gecko does not respond in like fashion, then the male knows that the gecko near him is in fact a female. This behavior is one means of determining their s*x.

    * Sexing your gecko is not very difficult. Male geckos are larger, heavier in the neck region, have a line of small pores on their belly between their hindlegs which are just in front of the anal opening or vent and they exhibit two swellings at their tail base and just past the vent. Females lack the large size, in general, and the pre-anal pores and post-anal swellings are missing. s*x can't be easily seen until your gecko reaches 5-6" in total length. Most of the geckos sold in pet shops are females.

    * You can keep a male with 1 to 10 females all their life. Cage size is the only limiting factor.

    * Keep a jar lid full of vitamin-mineral powder available in the cage at all times.

Your welcome.

Answer 3

For 1, a 10 gallon really is fine.  Any more than that and you need a minimum of a 20 long, but for one a 10 gallon is enough.  Rarely will your gecko get to one foot long.  I've NEVER seen a leo get that big.

Answer 4

10 gallon for one 20 gallon for 1 male 2 female you also need a warm hut and a cold hut and a heat lamp on one side of the tank so the leo can pick what it wants to be hot or cold to regulate there body temp

Answer 5

wow the first girl likes to pamper her pets w/ 15g tanks. OMG! Rofl mine is in a forty breeder.

anyway a 10g is ok a 20l/29 is prefered.

Answer 6

At least a 20 Gallon for one (they get almost a foot long from nose to tail, remember! They need room to turn around...), plus proper lighting, substrate, etc.

A 10 gallon is Okay for a few months, but he will quickly outgrow it.

Don't be cheap when you buy enclosures for your pets; get the biggest you can afford so your little guy can have lots of room to roam around and hunt crickets!

Answer 7

ya its the bear minimum but 20 gallon is better because these lizards can be active and a 20 gives him or her room to move.

Answer 8

No a 10 gallon tank is not big enough for any lizard even the tinest baby. You cannot get the correct heat gradient for it. Think about it this way, you are in the desert it's 100 degrees, you find shade but it's only 90-95 in the shade, did you cool off? No, neither would the lizard. You can't get it warm and cool, I had two baby collared lizard overheat due to living in 10 gallon tanks, and I'd hate to see anyone else lose a lizard to the same problem.