Feeder crickets should be gut-loaded for at least 24 hours before being fed to a gecko
Gut-loading — feeding the insects a nutritious diet before feeding them out — significantly boosts the calcium and vitamin content actually passed on to the gecko. Crickets fed to a gecko straight from a bare cup pass on very little nutritional value.
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Most active at dawn and dusk when temperatures in their native Pakistan and Afghanistan are ideal.
A widespread misconception is that the tail acts like a camel's hump storing water.
Autotomy — voluntary tail shedding — is a defence mechanism.
Unlike most gecko species which use van der Waals forces to climb smooth surfaces, leopard geckos have conventional claws.
The moveable eyelid is unusual among geckos.
Hold your gecko up to a light source and look through one ear opening — you can see light through the other side.