Many keepers weigh their leopard gecko roughly weekly to monthly on a gram scale to build a baseline weight trend over time
A single weight reading is less useful than a trend line, since it reveals gradual changes early — well before weight loss becomes visually obvious — making a simple digital gram scale a practical husbandry tool.
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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.