A leopard gecko enclosure benefits from a humidity gradient, not just one uniform ambient reading
Keeping the general enclosure on the drier side while providing a distinctly more humid microclimate inside the humid hide mirrors how the species would experience varying moisture levels moving between open ground and sheltered crevices in the wild.
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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.