Raising Leopard Geckos

Raising a leopard gecko is the hardest part. Lets start with safety. As I said before wash the tank with water and only water! Make sure what ever you put in that tank is cleaned with water and water only! When you first get your leopard gecko, you should leave it be for a good 38 hours, just to get settled in.
If you want your leopard gecko to like being held, you should try to pick it up only once a day for barely a minute. I know that once you get your gecko you want to take it out and play with it, but I'm sorry you can't. If a gecko is just getting used to its surroundings and you take it out of its tank, its going to do the same thing that it did when you put it in your tank for the first time, (its going to run and hid). I would wait at least 2 1/2 weeks before you start to play with it.
When you are raising your Leopard gecko you want to make sure that it is happy and healthy. remember that they are tiny little things so its easy for them to get hurt if you drop them.
NEVER EVER PICK UP YOUR LEOPARD GECKO BY ITS TAIL!!! if you pick up a leopard gecko by its tail, the tail will literally fall off. its okay if your leopard geckos tail falls off but keep in mind that that is were all of their fat is. If the tail falls off it will take much longer for you to breed and the gecko will be in shock. we will get to breeding later on.

Raising a gecko is not easy! it takes a lot of work and responsibility. Lets move on to feeding your gecko and making sure that it gets all of its vitamins and minerals. meal worms are usually the main food for your gecko. when you feed meal worms to your gecko you should have fine calcium at the bottom of your food bowl. Geckos need this calcium to keep their bones strong.

If you notice that your gecko looks lonely, you should consider getting it a friend. Leaped geckos are very friendly to each other. If you have two MALES together in a tank they will probably kill each other. Two males together is the worst thing you can do, they hate each other.
Two females together are very good. Females are very loving to each other. If you have a male and a female together, they will still be fine but you will have to deal with breeding and the eggs we will get to that later on.
I noticed that two female leopard geckos together show much more signs of happiness, but make sure that they both get equal attention. If you give one gecko more attention than the other, this can create jealousy between the two gecko while they are growing up.