I am sorry if this is in the wrong section as i am a newbie here we changed our leopard geckos from sand and bark to repti carpet a couple of weeks ago and have since bought a couple of smaller leos. One of my leos kept catching her mouth on the carpet but managed to pull it off on her own ok, but the smaller leo seem to struggle when trying to eat they keep getting there mouth caught on the carpet, any suggestions for this would be most appreciated i dont want them to hurt themselves while trying to eat as it might put them off eating

Sam

I noticed this too with smaller leos so I stopped using reptile carpet all together and swapped to lino

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2.6 Leopard Geckos | 1.0 Crested Gecko | 1.2 Corn Snakes | 0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa | 1.0 American Yellow Celestial Parrotlet | 1.0 Crazy Dog

thank you for the very quick reply would lino not be a little cold on their tiny feets sorry if i sound a little stupid lol i dont really want to put them back on to sand but want them to be happy

Sam

lol no it wont be cold cos you have the heat mat underneath it

I use slate patterened lino that has a rough finish

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2.6 Leopard Geckos | 1.0 Crested Gecko | 1.2 Corn Snakes | 0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa | 1.0 American Yellow Celestial Parrotlet | 1.0 Crazy Dog

hee hee well yeah i suppose that is a good point thanks for the advice i will look into changing it to lino cause i want them to be happy and not be put off eating cause they are eating really well at the moment barr the getting stuck bit lol

Sam

Well the carpet never put mine off eating I just worried they would damage their little jaws bless em

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2.6 Leopard Geckos | 1.0 Crested Gecko | 1.2 Corn Snakes | 0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa | 1.0 American Yellow Celestial Parrotlet | 1.0 Crazy Dog

yeah that is my main concern really they are only little and even my bigger girls i dont want them hurting themselves xxx thanks for the help

Sam

No problem

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2.6 Leopard Geckos | 1.0 Crested Gecko | 1.2 Corn Snakes | 0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa | 1.0 American Yellow Celestial Parrotlet | 1.0 Crazy Dog

I use repti carpet for my adults and occasionally the same thing happens but not often, with the baby though I just use kitchen roll.

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I have a beautiful pair of Leopard Geckos called Fudge (3 years old) and Priscilla (2 years old), and they have a little baby (most likely a girl) who was born on 18th August 2008 called Poppet.

My fiance Keeley (doomed_angel) has a cat (Kitty Pancake), a Boa (Ziggy), a baby Leopard Gecko (Thermie) and two baby Emperor Scorpions (Jack and Jill)

I use reptile carpet for my 2 leo's and my beardie and I've never seen them catch their mouths

Maybe they are just unusually fantastic hunters! Hehe

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I have:
1.5.0 Leopard geckos: Ellie - Normal, Fifi - Tremper albino patternless, Roxy - SHTCTB, Angelica - Blazing blizzard, Nova - Albino Mack Snow & Jeffro - Mack snow
1.0.0 Bearded dragon - Tim