Leopard Gheocko Diet
Question
What exactly do geckos eat? Can they eat fruits or veges? Will you send me everything that they can eat? Pleasssse?
Shawna
Answer
This is a bit of information on feeding Leopard Geckos
Insects should make up the main part of your
gecko's diet. Live crickets (gut-loaded on nutritious foods such as fruit
and flake fish food) are a good staple diet, along with mealworms, silkworms
and/or roaches as an occasional supplement. Avoid feeding prey items that
are larger than 1/2 the lizard's head.
Wax worms and, when your lizard is big enough, pinky (newborn and hairless)
mice make excellent treats for your gecko, but they should be fed very sparingly
as they are high in fat.
Feed your gecko 2-4 suitably sized crickets daily until about your gecko reaches
about 12cm (5") long, then feed 4-7 crickets about every two days, supplementing
with other prey items as well.
Feeder insects to consider as prey items could include appropriately sized:
- Commercial house crickets (Acheta domesticus)
- Black field crickets (Gryllus domesticus)
- Mealworms (Tenebrio molitor)
- Superworms (Zophobas mario)
- Silkworms (Bombyx mori)
- Locusts (Melanopus spp.)
- Cockroaches (Blaberus cranifer, etc...)
- Wax worms (Galleria melonella)
- Pinky mice (for breeding females)
Supplement the food with vitamin and mineral supplements every other feeding.
You can also feed small amounts of fruit such as fruit nectar, scraped soft papaya, mango, peach, nectarine, apricot etc. or if necessary, strained baby foods containing these fruits can be fed a couple of times weekly; you can add whatever mineral supplement to these soft, tasty goodies instead of dusting insect prey"
Someone else said they put in a little organic fruit baby food every week or so and the geckos will help themselves to that - just watch out they don't stand in it.
If you get feeder insects you can feed them using a variety of fruits and vegetables. For example:
- Collard greens
- Dandelion greens
- Watercress
- Mustard greens
- Prickly pear
- Spaghetti squash
- Carrot
Always offer a clean, shallow water dish.
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