Cut the light
condenser panel (egg crate) with a pair of wire snippers to
fit inside the bottom of the tank perfectly.  Then
cut a piece of screen big enough to cover the panel you just
cut and attach it with wire using a needle-nose pliers. Make
sure that the sharp edges of the cut wire your using are facing
down so that the geckos don't hurt themselves on it.
Set aside
Fill the bottom
1-2 inches of the tank with lava rock or leca clay pellets,
this is for a drainage layer so that the soil doesn't get
too saturated and it lets the soil drain to the bottom preventing
your plant roots from rotting.
Cover the drainage layer with screen
to keep the soil from mixing and dropping into the drainage
layer
Add 1-2 inches of organic soil on top
of the screen for the plants to root into and for nutrients.
Add 1 inch of Eco-Earth or Bed-a-Beast
substrate on top of the soil to make sure your geckos can't
get into the soil and to keep moisture up.
Cut the light
condenser panel so that the lay box can fit snug down into
the substrate.
Fit
the light condenser panel into the cage on top of the substrate.
 
Add
a very thin layer of Eco-Earth or Bed-a-Beast substrate on
top of the screen
Planting plants:
Choose your placement,
remember to put tall growing plants in the back and shorter
growing plants in the front.
 Wash
the plant thoroughly and make sure to get all fertilizer off
of the roots.
Cut
the light condenser panel just big enough to fit the plant
and roots,  I
simply cut an X in the screen to help keep the geckos out.
Then just wedge the roots and plant into the spot you cut
for it.
You
can also use the lay box hole that you cut to help feed the
roots through and down into the substrate.
Plant as many plants as
you like.
Building the lay box:
Use
a sharpie to draw the appropriate sized hole in the top of
the Tupperware your going to use. You want the hole big enough
for the gecko to get in and out easily but small enough for
optimum privacy and sense of security.
 I
used a soldering gun to cut the whole but you can use a razor
blade or whatever you choose to get the job done.
Then
cover the box with black silicon and decorate it with Eco-Earth©,
stones, sticks of whatever you want. The black silicon will
make sure it is always nice and dark in there for your females.
Wait 4-5 days or until there is no trace of silicon smell
before adding it the the tank.
Then
just place the lay box in the cage and fill it with moist
substrate making it an enticing place for your geckos to lay.
(I use half vermiculite and half Eco-Earth© in my lay
boxes)
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