African Fat Tail Gecko Habitat

The African fat-tailed gecko is found in West Africa, from Senegal to Cameroon. Their habitat is dry and arid, although they will spend most of their time in a dark, humid hiding place. In captivity, it is important to provide these geckos with a source of humidity that mimics these conditions.  Before purchasing your new fat tail gecko for sale, or baby fat tail gecko, consider the proper fat tail gecko habitat setup so that your new pet fat tail gecko for sale can live comfortably, as your new pet! fat tail gecko habitat

African Fat Tail Geckos for sale

Fat Tail geckos for sale or African Fat Tail Geckos are some of the coolest and easy to handle and care for geckos for in the world.  AFTS are getting more and more popular now that breeders like us have discovered many different Fat-Tailed Gecko morphs and are breeding some spectacular colored animals including Amelanistic, Tangerine, Zulu, Whiteout, Oreo fat tailed gecko, Zulu Fat tailed gecko, Zero and more. If you are searching for a fat tail gecko for sale near me, consider an AFT!  A baby tat tail gecko is very similar to leopard geckos for sale in care and appearance.

CB has the nicest fat tail gecko, including baby fat tail gecko, adult fat-tailed gecko, and juvenile fat tailed geckos for sale online.  Also, as Fat tail gecko breeders, we offer many fat tail gecko morphs.  Some gecko morphs include the popular and common fat-tailed gecko morphs for sale.  The African Fat Tail gecko is one of our personal favorites. If you are interested in learning about proper African Fat Tail Gecko care, please click here.

African Fat Tail gecko habitat setup

By being easy to take care of, this makes the housing situation incredibly easy; not that housing a gecko was difficult in the first place. Ideally, all you’re going to need to provide them with is the right combination of heat and humidity whether its night or day and you should be alright. Of course you’ll have to feed them the appropriate meals and times on a consistent basis but that’s covered a little further down. One of the greatest features for new pet owners is that the African fat tailed gecko is terrestrial. This means that they aren’t going to climb up the cage, they aren’t going to climb around and if they do happen to escape while you’re handling them or just escape, then you don’t have to worry about them climbing anything.

Using an aquarium for your fat tailed gecko habitat setup

Providing an adequate habitat for the gecko is obviously your number one chore and the first thing you’ll want to look into in my opinion is a 20 gallon tank. The 20 long gallon tanks will hold just about any size gecko and you can even hold 2 females and one male in there if you choose to do so. Also, just be aware that if you plan on mixing females and males, there will more than likely be breeding and you will have to deal with eggs in the future. Another benefit of the 20 gallon tank is that you’ll never have to upgrade the size of the tank as it grows into it.

Providing a hide or two is key to having the proper African Fat tail gecko terrarium

The African fat tailed gecko likes to play hide and seek with the owner a lot, especially in a new environment, you’ll find that they’re hiding a good majority of the time so you need to provide them with a lot of different places to hide. This can be accomplished by setting up fake props from the pet store or making your own low budget shelters such as empty upside butter bowls with a hole for the door. You can choose to provide some ground foliage inside the aquarium if you like but that’s completely up to you and will depend on what kind of substrate you end up going with.

African Fat Tailed Gecko Substrate

Ideally, there are a lot of different kinds of substrate that you can go with for an African fat tailed gecko or any kind of gecko because it’s very versatile depending on what kind of theme you’re looking to build inside the housing structure. However, one general rule to go by is that it should be a very moist type of substrate and not too hard and not sharp in nature like fine grain sand. If you do go with a hard but suitable substrate, you need to make sure that the area has at least one moist place in the area that will help assist in the shedding process.

African Fat Tailed Gecko Habitat Temperature

Keeping your African fat tailed gecko at a perfect temperature will ensure that they live as long as they possibly can and live a long and happy life. Now for the particular species and breed the African fat tailed gecko, a lot of people would highly recommend that you use an under tank heating pad that helps regulate the temperature of the aquarium. What this does is, comfortably sits underneath the tank or aquarium and it will evenly spread out heat around the enclosure and can be effective but cost a little bit more than what’s known as an overheating lamp.

Explore our entire african fat tailed gecko care section for more information.

Mealworms for sale

Here at CB we feed our gecko babies and adults our high quality live mealworms for sale.  If you are looking to purchase a new baby fat tailed gecko, be sure to also pick up some real mealworms for sale.  We absolutely guarantee you the best quality mealworms for sale in the country.  Also, we offer subscriptions so you can get your live mealworms shipped to your door automatically, each week, or month.

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