Care

To this day, I still catch wind of some reptile enthusiasts harping about how red lights are either completely safe to use on their own or extremely dangerous for leopard geckos. However, even in their best intentions, neither of those statements are one hundred percent true or accurate! Generally speaking, using regular red lights for…

In the past, reptile keepers would simply plug in their heat mats directly into a wall socket or power strip, turn it on, then forget about it. However, as this practice became widespread, so did the cases of thermal burns in geckos and snakes. If you don’t want your pet to become part of such…

Have you heard of deep heat projectors and wondered if you should use them? Are they safe? Do they really improve your gecko’s overall well-being? The reptile-keeping community has come quite a long way in terms of husbandry practices and standards. As a result, numerous companies have been releasing innovative heat sources as the so-called…

Halogen heat lamps and ceramic heat emitters have long existed outside the reptile-keeping community. But with the ever-growing push towards the use of halogens in leopard gecko tanks in recent years, ceramic heaters have steadily lost their popularity―even becoming infamous. So are halogens really better than ceramics and do ceramics deserve such a bad reputation?…

Considering all the hype around the use of halogen heat lamps and deep heat projectors within the reptile-keeping community, will the operation of ceramic heat emitters or CHEs become obsolete? Are they even worth trying out and using? In general, ceramic heat emitters are a good supplementary heating source in a leopard gecko tank. The…