My first crested gecko

The tank looks much better now and your gecko is very cute! Great job!

For how small that gecko is, way to big. Go small 10 gallons is fine for even three that size. I bred cresteds for years and I did the same thing I thought bigger was better, with them its not. As far as a 29 gal for a trio when they are adults is fine, more then enough room for them. With the tank being smaller you will be able to monitor their health and eating habits easier. Just my 2 cents. congrats on your new addtion!

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Originally Posted by Paradox81

For how small that gecko is, way to big. Go small 10 gallons is fine for even three that size. I bred cresteds for years and I did the same thing I thought bigger was better, with them its not. As far as a 29 gal for a trio when they are adults is fine, more then enough room for them. With the tank being smaller you will be able to monitor their health and eating habits easier. Just my 2 cents. congrats on your new addtion!

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I'm going to have to disagree with you on this. As long as the gecko is able to find its food, the 10 gallon should work fine. I have a 4 gram crestie in a 10 gallon tank and (s)he is doing great. Also, I can't imagine keeping 3 full grown cresteds in a 29 gallon tank. That's less than 10 gallons per gecko!

I had a couple trios in tanks that size and I never once had an issue. How much do your cresteds move around, they sleep all day and run around at night. I mean your only taking about a 6 inch gecko. If your wanting to display as natural I could see going larger but for breeding purposes I dont see why you would need more room? I'm not saying you should do things the way I did, just giving my imput on what worked for me and I had 100's of clutches and only lost one hatchling in 8 years. All of my geckos were more then healthy and produced very well.

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Originally Posted by reptile65

I'm going to have to disagree with you on this. As long as the gecko is able to find its food, the 10 gallon should work fine. I have a 4 gram crestie in a 10 gallon tank and (s)he is doing great. Also, I can't imagine keeping 3 full grown cresteds in a 29 gallon tank. That's less than 10 gallons per gecko!

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Its not about the gecko finding food ... they will be able to find the food in whatever size tank .....its about the gecko feeling secure same as noone on here would dream of putting a hatchling snake in a large tank its the same with cresties... A large kritter keeper would be better until the baby reaches a bit bigger size .....
and although it works out at less than 10 gallons a gecko a 29 gallon is widely acknowledged to be an acceptable size for a breeding trio (although not saying a 40 gallon wouldnt be better lol)