Geckopia Merch. Baby leopard geckos should be fed small crickets or mealworms daily until they reach around 15 grams or four inches. Subadult leopard geckos can be fed up to 6 or 7 every other day with medium sized crickets or mealworms.
Adult leopard geckos fully-grown when they weight about 40 — 50 grams can be fed large crickets and mealworms two to three times a week. Shop Now If you feel like your gecko is still hungry after feeding, you can simply set up a feeder dish like the Geckopia Triple Dish.
Mealworms only small and younger geckos will eat way more. Other small insects like nymph dubia roaches are fine in quantities of about too. Is this normal? We had her initially for 3 weeks but took her back to the pet shop due to her not eating and they monitored her for a week. We have her back now and she has been with us for a further 2 weeks again no eating…………. I think maybe the stress of her going to the pet shop and back to yours again could have impacted her appetite.
How have you been feeding her? Are you feeding her one insect at a time? Or are you leaving some in a dish? When I first got my geckos, I would leave about 10 mealworms in a dish over night and see how many were left in a morning. I also bought one of these cameras to watch my geckos eating when I went to bed, and to see how often they left their warm hides.
What is the rest of your setup like? What substrate do you use? What heat source do you use? What temperatures do you have in your vivarium? All of these things could impact their appetite. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Though they are active, they cannot climb smooth surfaces and do not jump, so are less likely to escape in your home than crickets. Make sure you are getting the right size for your gecko to eat. Dubia Roaches can be purchased in several sizes. Click the affiliate links blow to see the relative size scaled to a coin.
You can, though this is generally not recommended. Store bought insects are sourced through known breeders, and are raised with reptile feeding in mind. These come from clean and disease free environments. Alternatively, mealworms and dubia roaches are easy to breed and keep a steady supply on hand.
Some insects, like fireflies or other luminescent insects are toxic to leopard geckos, and should net be offered to your gecko under any circumstances. Gut loading is the process of feeding your crickets, mealworms, etc. If your insects are not well fed, they will be a poor source of nutrition for your pet. Ultimately, what your feeder bugs eat wind up in your gecko. I usually feed my insects vegetable scraps such as carrot peelings, potato slices, pieces of apple, etc. Personally, I breed my own mealworms, and keep them fed at all times.
General rule of thumb is to Feed your Feeders before offering them to your pet. If you keep a dish with live mealworms in the enclosure, it may be a good idea to keep a small piece of carrot or apple in the dish so the worms are well fed when you leopard gecko eats them. Even if you do a great job of gut loading your feeder insects, your leopard gecko still may not be getting all of the nutrients it needs.
You can buy supplements to provide vitamins your gecko may not get enough of in its normal diet. Calcium is important to young geckos as they grow to avoid Metabolic Bone Disease MBD and to breeding females for egg production.
Leopard geckos typically do not bask in sunlight like many reptiles, and may not get enough vitamin D3. Be careful over supplementing with vitamin D3. D3 is fat soluble, which means it can be stored in your leopard geckos body. Too much will cause the vitamin to build up. Your gecko should not be getting D3 all the time. Some leopard gecko owners will keep a small dish of calcium powder in the enclosure so the leopard gecko can lick the powder at its leisure.
Sprinkling some supplement dust on a rock is another option. Another way of delivering supplements to your leopard gecko is through dusting the food that it eats. This is how most reptile owners give their pets supplements. Most lizard owners will place a small amount of the powder in a plastic bag or container, place the insect inside, and lightly shake until the insect has a thin coating of the powder. You could also try a cricket shaker if you want something specially designed for this purpose.
If left too long, the supplement powder will rub off. Crickets may be the easiest insect to dust, though you may try you luck with others. Mealworms are general too smooth for much of the dust to stick. Some folks just reach in and grab a few mealworms to toss into a feeding dish.
Crickets and dubia roaches may be a bit more of a challenge to wrangle. No problem. Just use tweezers. They extend your reach and make it easier to pick up insects that are hard to pick up. Aquarium tweezers are great for this purpose.
For instance, when your gecko is young, it will be growing rapidly and need ample energy to do so. As your gecko ages, it will not need food as often.
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