Whats a hide/shed/egg-laying box?
Hide/shed/egg laying boxes come in a couple different flavors. You can provide a simple hide box, which could be anything from an ornate rock cave designed for reptiles, to an overturned flower pot with a chip taken out for a door. The purpose of a hide is to provide the gecko(s) a place to, well, hide. They will sleep in there, or just get out of view of your or other geckos. The other type is a shed box, which usually doubles as an egg-laying box. This is a hide with some sort of substrate in it that is dampened often to keep humidity up. It is absolutely necessary to provide this to your geckos so that they don’t have any troubles shedding. The only alternative is to spray down one corner of your enclosure to build up humidity. These type of shed boxes are great for gravid leopard geckos to lay their eggs in, as well. These boxes are usually on the warm end and/or in the middle of the thermal gradient, as they may not build up enough humidity on the cooler end of your tank. I’ve fou
