Hi all.
I've been seriously considering getting a gecko the past couple of months. My house is quite small so he/she would have to be in my room. I've got the space and everything, so that much is fine, but I'm worried about messing up it's day and night cycles. I'm a uni student and do my work and study in my bedroom and I need light to, you know, see. This includes cramming at 2 a.m. The solution I've come up with in my head is getting a friend to sew some black material together that can just slide over the vivarium to darken it, and use my desk lamp instead of the overhead light to do my work.
Would this create enough darkness for a gecko to be like "Oh it's nighttime! Time to do my thing!"? Or would it be too light still and mess with him/her?
Any of your own solutions would be great too.
I've been seriously considering getting a gecko the past couple of months. My house is quite small so he/she would have to be in my room. I've got the space and everything, so that much is fine, but I'm worried about messing up it's day and night cycles. I'm a uni student and do my work and study in my bedroom and I need light to, you know, see. This includes cramming at 2 a.m. The solution I've come up with in my head is getting a friend to sew some black material together that can just slide over the vivarium to darken it, and use my desk lamp instead of the overhead light to do my work.
Would this create enough darkness for a gecko to be like "Oh it's nighttime! Time to do my thing!"? Or would it be too light still and mess with him/her?
Any of your own solutions would be great too.