One of my kids just got a pair of breeding Leopard Geckos for his b'day, as well as everything we were told was needed for their terrarium.
Any hints to pass on so we can keep these delightful lil critters living as long as possible?
What do we do when the female has her eggs? Do they eat their young, do we need to separate them?
Our biggest prob right now is keeping the cage at a good steady temp for them. We have a lamp and a terrarium heating pad under the glass cage, but the temps vary from minute to minute, it's been a difficult task to keep the cage at the right temp without moving the light around very, very, very often.
They certainly are entertaining to watch, and it's been relaxing to watch them, kinda like watching fish in an aquarium. Only these lil critters make us laugh a lot more.
TIA,
MZ

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To OP, we dont have breeding geckos, but we do have lizards (small bermuda type). Keeping them warm is good advice, and changing the water daily because bacteria can grow. Maybe you should go to the library and get a book or ask someone at Petsmart or someplace like that. Wish I had more info, but I can tell you the lizards are the easiest pets we own.
Hope you enjoy them

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We have a bearded dragon. Try this website for info on caring and breeding your geckos
Lizards can be very entertaining!

The Gecko Spot---Breeding Leopard Geckos

We've been breding geckos for over 10 years.

The link cluelessdoll gave looks like it's good information. Click on the care sheet link at the top to get more information. We use Rep Cal vitamin/mineral supplement, and get a calcium WITHOUT D3. Their egg laying box only needs to have an inch or so of substrate. Our babies are kept on newspaper or paper towels. Adults are on sifted play sand. People have been successful without incubators, and just placing the box of eggs on a top shelf of the warmest closet. An incubator is best, they'll hatch faster and more eggs will hatch.

Don't worry about the light, they don't really need it. Since you have a heat mat, which should be hooked up to a rheostat, adjust that to get the ground temp to about 86-88. If you don't have something to regulate the temp of the heat mat you need to get something. Heat mats get really hot and can burn the gecko. Also make sure the substrate isn't to deep over the heat mat so the heat can get through. The heat mat should cover about 25% of the cage and the rest of the cage can be room temp (around 70ish). A cheap ($15) indoor/outdoor digital thermometer from Walmart works good. Place the thermometer beside the cage, and run the probe inside the cage and place it on the hot side. The temp doesn't have to be exact and it's okay if it varies up or down a few degrees. You just don't want the whole cage at 95 or them in the 60's for days on end. Leopard geckos are pretty hardy and can handle a pretty wide range of temps, but to have them the healthiest, 88 for hot side and 70ish for the cool side is what you want to aim for.

The hardest part of leopard geckos is finding crickets, most of the time the pet stores are out so don't wait until you're out to find more. Research how to take care of crickets, they get expensive when they start dying on you and you don't want to go to the pet store every couple days. We feed our adults every other day about 6-8 crickets each. You can also order crickets, but with only 2 geckos the crickets will usually die before you can feed them all off. If you know someone else that feeds crickets, they are usually more then happy to go in together and order some (10-12 cents each at the pet store compared to 1,000 for less the $20 shipped).

Buy the book “The Leopard Gecko Manual” I thinks it’s published by Advanced Vivarium Systems

My son used to have them and we loved watching them!! Watching them sneak up on the crickets and gobble them up was actually fun to watch. We'd be like run little cricket, run! But they do have to eat. That's the circle of life.

I don't know if this was mentioned in other posts, but we bought a heated rock that we put in for them. Seems like they really enjoyed sitting on the warm rock. (You plug it into the wall). We put in some real vegetation too instead of plastic greenry.

Please don't use heat rocks. I've seen several animals that were burned really bad from them, some died. The rocks don't heat evenly and get some really hot spots that are hot enough to burn.