Leopard Geckos & Enrichment

scale-up-enrichment:

• Fabric in the enclosure: textures to explore! I have a fabric bag, a beanie, and fabric scraps in different tanks to provide enrichment. 
• Climbing structures: I used safe materials to stick together flat rocks, and provide platforms to climb up onto. There’s also sticks and wood with fake plants wrapped around, and Peep can climb on those even without claws. 
• New, temporary hides: switch it up! Change their coconut out with a plastic flowerpot. Line the existing hide with a new texture.  
• Items to explore in the tank: this would include anything that isn’t specifically something you’d put in usually, but that can safely go in anyways. I’ve got pingpong balls bigger than their mouths for this purpose. 
• New cover: put up a little fabric tent. Or get a big (sanitary) leaf from outside and put that over. 
• Rearrange what’s already in the tank: be warned, they may not like it. Peep was not a fan of her first rearrangement, but she’s exploring the second one eagerly. If your gecko doesn’t care for it, return to the original or reconfigure to something else!
• Recycle: toilet paper rolls, little boxes, crinkly paper. Anything with a new texture is good. 
• Make getting their food a game: use tongs, have them chase the food. Drop it in from the ceiling. Poke holes in a pingpong ball, shove mealworms in there, and let the gecko figure it out. Make a maze of food (outside of the tank). Something as simple as a glass jar on its side with mealworms inside can be challenging.