A Different Approach To Housing

While reading this caresheet, I noticed a picture of a house gecko on a wad of newspaper. It was labelled "House gecko shippers use wadded up paper to give them lots of surfaces to crawl on." This got me thinking. Lots of scrunched-up newspapers would provide a house gecko with places to hide (in between the wads, under the wads, under newspaper sheets, and in folds), places to climb (on taller wads), places to run (open sheets of newspaper), and water (if a small water dish was provided). Could a suitably sized aquarium with nothing but newspapers be a fantastic cheap way to provide your gecko with everything he needs?

First, you could place down several sheets of newspapers, under which the geckos can easily scurry. Next, lightly scrunch (not so it's a ball, just so that it has lots of folds and creases and stuff) a few more, and place them on top of the flat newspapers, leaving a large area free. Then, scrunch and wad up a few bundles of sheets to make balls and shapes with lots of creases that the geckos can slip into. Simply strew them into the enclsoure, leaving that big space you had free originally empty. Then throw in another layer (possibly another couple of layers), and on one side of the viv, build up a large stack of newspaper wads, glued together with aquarium silicone. You'd end up with a large structure a bit like one of those rock stacks they have in desert enclosures on one side. In the large space you left open, put a water dish, but keep the rest free; this will be a running area.

So what do you guys think? Could this be an alright enclosure if it was humid and warm???

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What do you lot think? If it was sprayed regularly to keep humidity