The care is pretty much the same as crested care except for a few things:
- Adults need much larger enclosures and prefer cork bark tubes to hide in and climb on.
- They eat more, so will need to be fed more and/or more often.
- They like slightly higher humidity, but you must make sure the substrate is not wet because they will get sores from laying on it if it is too wet.
- They tend to be more secretive, so glass or totally see-through enclosures are not preferred and can stress them out.
- Some leachies can be cage territorial so be prepared for that possibility.
They do not require heat or special lighting, as long as your room temps are 68-78 degrees. Some people feed pinkies, but it is not required. My leachies ate crickets when they were young, but stopped eating insects long before they were fully grown so I stopped offering them.
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