Keeping a consistent roughly 12-hour light and 12-hour dark cycle helps regulate a leopard gecko's natural crepuscular rhythm, even without UVB
A stable day-night cycle, rather than constant light or an irregular schedule, supports normal activity patterns, appetite, and shedding cycles, and matters even in enclosures without a dedicated UVB fixture.
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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.