I UPGRADED MY CRESTED GECKO ENCLOSURES! Crested Gecko Terrarium Setup
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- čas přidán 24. 11. 2021
- How to setup an adult crested gecko enclosure! Today I am going to show you how I upgraded my crested gecko terrarium setups! Hope you enjoy! Special thanks to Govee for sponsoring today's video!
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Welcome back everyone! I don't know about you but I think Pingu, Nona and Rambo LOVE their new setups! They've been exploring the cork tubes at nice and l even caught Nona shovelling her nose through the soil and leaf litter last night! Enrichment is the BEST! Don't forget to answer today's question of the day!
QotD answer: pothos and a few bromiliads for plants, bird toys for hardscapes. I have got 2 sets of bird ladders hanging horizontally with pothos acting as vines. The crestie seems to enjoy jumping between ladders and hugging the ladder stick while sleeping like a bolster.
@@testdasi awesome suggestions! Thank you for being so thorough!
I love using golden pothos and snake plants. I create a little container from a cross section of cork bark tube to create a pot for snake plants so I can keep them drier. My crestie bioactive tank has been going strong for over four years!
@@cheryllynn4238 that’s a super cool idea! Thank you for sharing my friend!
I used to live in Florida where pothos grows outside. If it is able to root into a tree trunk and climb toward the 🌞 hormones in the plant are triggered and leaves get much bigger as well as the vine thickness. 18 inches up to 24 inches can be on a vine when growing vertically, so you might get some big leaves from them if they attach to the background.
I use real and fake plants in my crestie's cage because I wanted flowers. I found fake flowers online that have been really great. I knew silk flowers wouldn't work because of the moisture and possible mold, but I knew I didn't really want plastic ones either. It took some searching, but I found these "like real" flowers that are made of a plastic that is super soft and feels almost like silk, but is safe to get wet and wont break down or release toxic plastic into the cage or water. Now I have giant lilies and hibiscus flowers in my tank and it makes my girly heart very happy.
where did you find them?
Yes I've been waiting for this video for what feels like years now
Thanks for your patience! I hope you really enjoy it!
I haven't gotten a crested gecko yet but I'm working on a terrarium right now for one... Just finished my fine spot Azuraus pair of Dart Frogs that I'm breeding
That’s awesome! Hope it goes great!
We have a special needs crestie, he had a spinal injury at the reptile store when we got him ( we had to!). We have Cork rounds and flats for climbing (using his front legs for the most part). For plants we have pothos, a bromeliad (from Home Depot) which actually can be planted into the substrate. We also have another small accent plant??? He loves his bromeliad and cork the the most for getting around!
When we upgraded my sons Crestie setup we had a custom 40x40x80 glass enclosure made and scaled the back and one side with foam which a large cork tube running from top to bottom. The tube has a hole in it and he spends most nights inside the tube. Various other fork tubes and branches in there to give lots of climbing opportunities. Plants are pathos, snake plant, creeping fog, tillansia and a peace Lilly. He uses all the space and it looks amazing.
Love how the new setups are looking.
Ive been keeping tropical arboreal reptiles for over 10 years. I believe the key to success is density. lots of dense climbing surface, different sizes, with not many bare or open spots. I also incorporate many different pieces of cork hides throughout the entire enclosure. they tend to feel more comfortable and not as apt to hide
Very well said!
I like the natural decor and hammocks
I just got a crested gecko, and right now I’m getting plants to put in quarantine before I redo their enclosure
I always love how you comment on the videos , i like that calm voice a lot
Looking good my man!!
Haha thanks brotha 🙏🏼
You can put also Monstera deliciosa and rocks... Rocks helps give variety and shelter for burrowing creatures...
Thanks for the suggestion!
Aglaomenas are great bc they’re sturdy and come in a wide variety of colors! Inch plant for accents, and philos galore, since I keep so many as is lol
good enclosure! i use plants called coleus, they’re beautiful to have because it brings in color! and i just use tree branches sticks and cork bark for my decor.
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
Those look good. I have a small enclosure with a small gargoyle gecko. It's not bioactive,but has a ceramic candle holder for a ground hide,a moist hide and above the fake plant's,a stick with a toilet paper roll on it. My garg really likes hanging out on top of the toilet paper roll. Yeah,it looks tacky,but what the gecko likes,the gecko gets.
I'm getting ideas for the bigger enclosure here as that one will be bioactive.
I love how you care for you animals just so so well and ur so calm couldn't press the subscribe button fast enough
QTOD; I have branches and a whole coconut shell hanging with wire from the roof of the terrarium, my cornsnake loves them, he especially likes to sleep in the hanging coconut. The plants currently in the enclosure are just a pothos and a mother-in-law's tongue, I would love to add a zeezee plant though!
Awesome! Thank you for sharing!
Looks amazing! Bet your geckos will love it in there - and you can enjoy looking at them! Thanks for sharing!
I don't keep crested geckos, but I keep gifting cuttings of my tropical creeping charlie to my other reptile keeper friends, as it just goes crazy in my halmahera blue tongue skink enclosure.
Haha that’s awesome!
Happy Thanksgiving Dayan! Love the new enclosures!
I really enjoyed this video. I have been struggling with wanting to redo my crested gecko enclosures and this has given me motivation. Thank you! Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks so much! So happy you liked it and I hope it helps inspire you for your build(s)! Happy thanksgiving!
The gecko are so beautiful
Thank you! I love my crested geckos!
I have a snake plant in my crested geckos tank and he LOVES to slid down to the center of the plant and sleep there🥰
Great option! Thanks for sharing!
Love the video man and happy Thanksgiving to you all. 😁😁😁😁😁
My crested/chahoua hybrid sleeps in a little magnetic cave on the side of his enclosure everyday. It's from the company Magnaturals - I really enjoy their stuff, it's so cool. He of course has other stuff in his enclosure but that was something unique that I wanted to call out.
Thanks for sharing! Yes, those magnaturals are quite popular!
Nice enclosures! BTW...you can make your own coconut hides by drilling a large whole through and removing all the meat, then let it dry out and you have your own hide.
I use pothos in all my reptile housing (even the tokays). For my cresties I also like wood orchids and snake plants (the cresties really enjoy lounging on the snake plants).
Thanks for the advice! Yes! You really can’t go wrong with pothos!
@@Reptiliatus True. I moved into my deceased aunt's house and pothos was already there,as they are almost impossible to kill.
I will be adding a staghorn fern to my big enclosure as I bought one over a year ago and planted it in a cork round. It's doing amazingly well and I recommend them for enclosures.
Cryptanthus Bromeliad is actually my favorite plant. i use dem alot in my gecko homes.
Epic! They are really cool! I need to get some!
@@Reptiliatus there are so easy yo get in Denmark. and the colors are soo beautiful. and the geckoes dont destroy them. i use them in my crested gecko and leopard gecko enclosures.
@@henriksundkristensen7781 wonderful! I’ll have to consider it next time I see them! They have however become rather expensive here lately.
@@Reptiliatus i give around 14-15usd for 5 small ones but there grow okay fast.
Love your haircut in this video. Looks very handsome. I love plants too. Probably my favorites are the pothos in all the colors. I just think they are so pretty, they’re easy to grow and very hardy. And since they vine, they can really fill a tank. I’m growing cuttings too. For just cool old style plants I love begonias. Their leaves are so beautiful with the green tops and deep burgandy bottoms. Then the delicate flowers that hand upside down in bunches are so pretty. And orchids….nuff said!
I love your choices, and also asparagus fern, pink hypoestes (pink polka dot plant), and jade plant. Jade is especially easy to take starts off and the plant structure will differ slightly with light exposure. I also use it with my tarantulas bc it'll hold up to heavier webbing. I have an OBT sling that turned its whole jade sprig into its nest, rather than burrow.
i have to redo my daygecko enclosure in a few days because i'm moving and i'm SOOO excited to rebuild it and adding a new background.
for my daygecko i have pothos and some sort of monstera for living plants and i guess, i will use them for a crested gecko too ( when i finally get one). especially the monstara is really nice because it ads some nice foliage and also acts as vines to climb on. plus the pros of a living plant.
Snake plants are for sure one of my favorite to add to a crestie enclosure
I actually have an arrowhead and pothos in Sedona's enclosure, my bromeliad died because I overwatered it :( But I have a snake plant that I'm probably gonna be replacing it with. I also just got a lilly white baby a few days ago! She's so beautiful
I have a chameleon who is called Sedona as well! And here I was thinking I was the only one crazy enough to name it after this beautiful town loool
I love Nona
Me too! :)
I really enjoyed this video.. I don’t have any plants.. reptiles, or any pets.. but something about this is neutral and calming 💚💚
Thank you so much for the kind words! Your opinion is so unbiased and I really appreciate and am happy you enjoyed the video!
As always...great video....I just love all ur critters...they r so cute and almost all of them seem very tame. Nice work! ❤🤗😘💯👏👏👏🦖🦇🐧🐼🐛🐍🐦🦤🦆🐸🐞🐢🦎🐉🐘🐇🦦🕷🦔🦥🦨🦉🦘🐟🦎🦎💯
Thanks so much! 🙏🏼
I'm setting up a 30gal for my first crestie! We decided to go bioactive, cuz its the most beautiful lol this video definitely gave me some great ideas, thank you :)
Good job my dude!☺
Thanks!
Awesome job 👍😁
Thank you so much!
The enclosures look great! I like aloe Vera and pathos.
4:46 I have a massive P. 'Eva' growing as a houseplant. It’s beautiful when it gets established, and grows quite densely. The leaves tend to lay on top of each other at times, leaving perfect hiding spots for geckos.
Very cool! Thanks for the heads up! Now I’m excited!
I've used pothos and mother in laws tongue in my crested gecko enclosure. I also have plenty of corkbark tunnels and different pieces and also a coconut husk that Nebula love to sleep in 😊
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing!
I use the Mother in Law's tongue. My gecko loves to sleep on the leaves. I really like how it is such a thick and authentically pleasing plant.
O rally love the zizzi plants to keep in my crested gecko inclosure’s
QOTD: I have house plants. One is a Pothos. From the internet, I saw that they are poisonous to cats and dogs. Well of course Oliver wants to chew on it. So I offered him some lettuce instead. And he adores it. I am amazed by how he chases me to get to it. I have to hold it for him. Sort of like my hand is a branch. He loves to crunch it with his back teeth.
Great video
Thank you!
I really like using brmeliads and pothos!
This three are going to be in love with all that lush vegetation and hiding spots!
Thank you Tracy! I sure hope so!
@@Reptiliatus I meant these three. 😆 And they will. Just you watch!
Good job! Love the process!
Just got 0.0.3 Malachiticus Sceloporus. They are crazy!
Greetings from Germany!
Pothos is king!
For lost space i add bambo.
You can just wedge them between the glass or you can glue them.
My gecko's love climbing on them
Can’t go wrong!
I don't have any gecko's anymore. Years ago i had a extremely shy leopard,she was sweet tho. She was a bit of a weirdo,climbing up to the corner of the terrarium to poop 🙄 and she seemed to be afraid of her feeder insects. What's so scary about a waxworm?
I'd love go get myself a crested one day, but now i have enough animals to take care of.
A few days ago i redecorated the frog enclosures, I love taking everything out and try new setups. Its fun to see the animals explore
I would love to see you do a bioactive setup for your leachies, too. I have my leachie in a bioactive enclosure, but have haven't had as much luck with plants. My little guy likes to uproot and shred every plant I have put in his cage except for pothos. Like, I will check on him some mornings and multiple plants are just strewn across the bottom of the enclosure. I'm not opposed to only using pothos (until he turns on them, too), but I would love to hear some ideas.
Could you make an update video of all the reptiles you have?
I LOVE that green crested gecko, Nona
Great video! Love the channel. I was wondering where you purchased your cork background you use in this enclosure? Thanks!
I like putting lots of air plants and ficus trees in my crested gecko enclosure.
Awesome!
Watching with my crestie again! He says hello!
Haha that’s awesome! Hi! 🦎
They look great. But how do you find eggs
Cool video!!! Do you have to use a clean up crew? If you use live plants?
Hi, great video. I just wondered what size tanks these are?
Hi you please tell me where you got your vines from as where did you get the white flying springtails. Nice setups. Thanks 😊
I have 5 crested and went bio with them. Plant wise i have bamboo snake and bromeliad in mine i love the little plants you put in yours and am wondering what those were that you took from your dart frogs? Love your new set ups they look great and i am sure your cresties will love them as well.
I find that zz plants thrive on neglect lol
Those before pictures look a lot like my vivs at times loool I actually managed to kill pothos in my chameleon setup. They had grown so big in their pots (I hung them on branches) that there was no soil left, only roots. They couldn't retain water and whenever I watered them, the water would straight up overflow. I am going to put in new ones today. For my crested gecko enclosure (and I hope I am translating the names right): Pothos, spathiphyllum, snake plant (sansevieria cylindrica), different calatheas, nest fern, umbrella plant, "banana plant" (musa super dwarf cavendish), aglaonema red zirkon (beautiful pinkish color!) and bromelia. Blueberry loves to sleep in the bigger one every now and then. So adorable. He is kind of destroying it but oh my, cuteness overload. You should defintitely put a coconut in there! My little guy loves it. It's his most favorite spot in the whole viv. He sits on top or just chill inside of it sticking his cute face out. Can't recommend it enough.
can you share where you get the cork background material? Thanks
What is the low to ground plant that you had said you took clippings of from your dart frog enclosure? It looks really cool.
Please tell me what you use for the background? I prob just missed it but I couldn’t figure it out. Thanks!!!
What morph is Nona? Her colouration is gorgeous. It reminds me a bit of typical chahoua coloring.
QOTD: I am starting to make my crestie and day geckos enclosures bioactive. Plants and more natural decor is all I need to add yet, I’ve already done a drainage layer and bioactive substrate, along with CUC. Although, I recently have been seeing a TON of dead isopods and I have no idea what killed them, they were fine for like 2 months.
Anyways; I think I’m going to get the crested gecko plant pack from Josh’s Frogs. I have no idea what to pick out otherwise.
I have one crested gecko but I'm trying to decide for Christmas should I get another crested gecko or should I get a California kingsnake
I'm still waiting on my gargoyle gecko to get a little bigger before I move it into a bioactive enclosure. Hopefully by Christmas or the New Year! No idea what plants I'm going use yet, although I do have cork bark and some vines ready.
I'm doing the same with my little garg. I'll be setting up a bioactive and will move in Toffeetoes in the fall once everything is established.
What kind of mesh do you use over your rocks at the bottom
hi question here how often should you clean your crested geckos cage?
thanks
Im planning to get a crested gecko and was curious wat plants would u advise. I have a hemidactylus triedrus but this wil be my first tropical gecko.
I absolutely love the setups. I will be doing upgrades for my 2 crested geckos and gargoyle gecko. I currently use the cork tubes. I like using pothos in all of my enclosures, but also other various tropical plants depending on what I find at the plant store.
Do you culture your own springtails?
Thank you so much Casey! I hope your enclosure upgrades go great! I originally bought 10 spring tail cultures and just care for/feed them and rotate using them. That way there are so many they never run out and I can give them time to replenish :).
@@Reptiliatus thank you! I'll be posting my upgrades on FB and IG, and eventually my completed frog/reptile room.
Hi I love your channel!! What do you use for a background?
Where do you get the cork backgrounds from?
I loved the Video and I got some very good ideas for my own Cresties!
I am wondering where you got that vines from, I can't find a place where I can buy some real vines, I only find these fake plastic one's...
Where do you get the feeding dishes that you use for your crested geckos, I just finished rehoming mine into an 18x18x24 and want to get a more visually pleasing feeding dish for him.
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What reptiles do you think make the best beginner reptiles
Where does one buy the wonderful vines?
I am curious as to what plant that is 7:24 ? would love to have few of these for my crested geckos they look very nice
You should look into fish scaled geckos I thought I’d seen everything
Where do you get your vines
Any problems with hypo Aloysius mite’s
Where did you get that jungle wood/vine? I actually like the challenging aspect of it for Crested geckos
Are all philos or “pothos” safe for cresties? I have a mccolleys finale and a scindapsus exotica that I’m ready to transfer to soil, both are free of pesticides, fertilizers etc.
What plant or cleanup crew you use to reduce amonia smell significantly? i want my cresties has 100% bioactive enclosure
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What background do you buy?
What kind of vines are those? I’d love to get some myself!
Is there any lighting or heat these enclosures/crested geckos need on top? ty
My reptile room sits around 75-78f so I don’t give my cresties any small basking lamps but they have T5 6% uvb bulbs by Arcadia over them that do put out a little heat. The equivalent bulb would be a 5.0 uvb if you can’t get Arcadia in your area :).
What plant is the cuttings your putting in?
Wow, I'm early!
Welcome!
Do I have to clean a bioactive enclosure how to do it?
Do u recommend to wash the live plants before putting them into the enclosure
This is what I want to do for my Ball Python and my Leopard gecko as well.
That’s awesome!
How do you get the humidity to stay at a good place for your geckos
I give them a misting almost every night :).
Do you use a drainage layer?
Yes :)