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Geckos need heat lamps to keep their body temperature within healthy levels. Halogen lamps are the closest you can get to giving your leopard gecko a sun-like heat source. But once you discover how many specific types there actually are, it’s hard to choose the perfect one – that is, unless you know exactly what…

If you ever thought that spraying your gecko is a great idea, you are in the right place! Hopefully, you will change your mind. However, please avoid it if you do not want to trigger stomach aches in your reptile (or even worse). Misting leopard and crested gecko is unsafe practice because of possible: gastrointestinal…

When reptile heat lamps and heat mats are put up against each other, which will be the winner?? A handful of keepers and breeders still think and claim that these products stand on equal footing with each other, but this couldn’t be any farther from the truth! Overall, a heat lamp functions better and more…

Heat lamps, basking lamps, daytime lamps, sun lamps, infrared lamps, and halogen lamps: are all of these really that different? Choosing the perfect heat lamp for your leopard gecko is definitely not an easy affair but it is manageable once you get the basics down – especially with halogen heat lamps. An average halogen bulb…

Heat rocks, also known as hot rocks, have become extremely notorious within the reptile-keeping community over the years – burns, hot spots, fires. But is all the hate it’s getting actually reasonable or is it all just due to social media exposure? Well, we have science to answer that! As a whole, the use of…