Metabolic Bone Disease is entirely preventable and is the most common serious condition in captive leos
MBD results from calcium deficiency, D3 deficiency, or an imbalanced Ca:P ratio. Symptoms include rubbery limbs, tremors, inability to walk, and jaw deformity. It is caused by skipping calcium dusting on feeders. Dust every feeding for juveniles, every other feeding for adults.
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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.