Rotating between two or more feeder insect species helps prevent nutritional deficiencies that can develop from an exclusively single-prey diet
No single common feeder insect provides a perfectly complete nutrient profile on its own. Alternating staples such as crickets and dubia roaches, alongside correct supplementation, gives a more balanced overall diet than repeatedly offering only one feeder type.
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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.