does any one know where i can find to buy Vermiculite,Perlite,Brown Rice Flower. oh and small half pint mason
Not to sound like just about everyone else, but there are a few flaws. 1) breeding is VERY hard. You have to have PERFECT conditions and even then it's a long shot. You'll need to be very patient. 2) you need to have an extra tank with, yet again, perfect conditions for your hatchlings. That means even more money. 3) babies eat twice as much as adults. That means more food, more dusting powder, ect. 4) people won't buy from you for $50 unless you are well known. Heck, I can get a great gecko from Petco for $25. Sorry, I don't want to be cruel sounding. I wish you the best of luck :) yay for my generation taking a step for my favorite animals.
for the geckos about 50, the incubator! all arounf 120-150
You'll need a hovabator. I bought one for $100 and then I saw them online for like $30. These things REALLY work. You'll need some rubbermaid tubs, get them from walmart or the 99 cents store. $1-$4 Paper Towels $3 Mealworms (after they hatch) $3
It can be costy. I start breeding with only spending 350. mainly because i decide to buy 3 more adults (different morphs: eclipse, enigma and raptor for 200) but when the babies hatched price went up and i had to buy supplies for them too which cost me about 200. it can be pretty cheap, it depends on your habitat supplies and the quality of stuff you buy. most breeders use plastic sterile tubs as tanks. tiny boxes as hides and coolwhip containers for humid hides, bottle caps/lids as food /water/calcium bowls. just remember there are many leopard gecko breeders, so selling the babies will be hard to do (if this is your intention). thats why you shouldnt go into breeding unless you are prepared to house all the babies for their entire life(even if your only selling them in a few months) this way the ones that dont sell, you can keep as pets.
You'll need a bag of vermiculite, available at garden centers for about $3.00. You'll need an incubator, you can buy one online for about fifty dollars. I recommend hovabater, which is readily available on big apple pet supplies. You can also make your own. To do so you will need a well insulated cooler, a heat mat, a hydrometer, and a thermometer. I will post instructions on the bottom of my post. You will also need an enclosure to keep the hatched little ones in if they don't sell right away. You will need an egg laying box for the females enclosure. A medium sized glad tupperware container will work. Keep food costs in mind as well. You need an enclosure for the crickets, oyu need to keep food costs in mind. each cricket costs aproximatly 11 cents. It doesn't seem like much but it adds up fast. For the homemade incubator you need to set it up a few days in advance. Place the heat pad in the bottom of thpotentialand put the potentail egg box with vermiculite in as well. Adjust the temperature with the help of the thermometer until you get the temp. range you want. Also adjust humidity to the right percentage as well.
